Articles by Nicole Scicluna

October 15, 2025

🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all

Nicole Scicluna

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed how often EU leaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it. Nicole Scicluna shows that despite geopolitical urgency and family rhetoric, enlargement remains overwhelmingly cast as a conditional, merit-based process

Nicole Scicluna

Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University

Nicole’s research interests include the EU’s legal and constitutional system, and the relationship between international law and international politics.

Her work has been published widely, including in International Affairs, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, West European Politics and the European Law Journal.

The Politics of International Law
OUP, 2021

European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis
Routledge, 2015

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Articles by Nicole Scicluna

🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all

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