Title Participants "LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East." "Koen Slootmaeckers" "Frontiers of Civil Society: Government and Hegemony in Serbia" "Koen Slootmaeckers" "Nationalism as competing masculinities: Homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism" "Koen Slootmaeckers" "How are masculinity and nationalism intertwined? This question has received scant theoretical attention, and existing theories tent to focus on their shared ideals and are embedded in a heteronormative, homophobic and patriarchal framework. Such views imply a static relationship between both phenomena, and are incompatible with the recent phenomenon of homonationalism and the incorporation of some homosexual bodies within the nation. Addressing this theoretical gap, this article develops a more holistic framework of the relationship between nationalism and masculinity. Drawing on relational sociology, it conceptualises nationalism as competing masculinities. It argues that the link between masculinities and nationalism is not found in their overlapping substantive ideals, but rather that the two phenomena are co-constructed through their overlapping Othering processes. The proposed theoretical framework does not only provide a more dynamic understanding of the link between masculinity and nationalism, but it also helps to overcomes the apparent duality between homonationalism and heteronationalism. It is shown that both phenomena are in fact two sides of the same coin, with the main difference between them being the location of homophobia as a technology of Othering within different type of Self/Other relations. Overall, the article provides an analytical tool that allows for the contextualisation and understanding of seemingly contradicting features of nationalism and its relationship to masculinity." "Differentiated threat and the genesis of prejudice. Group-specific antecedents of homonegativity, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant attitudes" "Bart Meuleman, Koen Abts, Koen Slootmaeckers, Cecil Meeusen" "Europeanization of Attitudes Towards Homosexuality: Exploring the Role of Education in the Transnational Diffusion of Values" "Koen Slootmaeckers" "© 2018, © 2018 The European Association for the Advancement of the Social Sciences. How does exposure to EU integration affect social attitudes in third countries, and what is the role of education in this process? These questions matter because the EU aspires to be not only a regulatory regime but also a community of values. Addressing both the common elision of attitudes and the underappreciation of education in Europeanization research, this article analyses the EU’s impact on attitudes towards homosexuality in third countries via national education systems. This article offers not only an exposition of how we can expand our theoretical framework to include the transmission of values; its empirical findings demonstrate the need for this exercise, as some of the literature’s underlying assumptions are shown to be unsupported." "Gedifferentieerde dreiging en de verklaring van vooroordelen: Anti-immigranten attitudes, islamofobie, antisemitisme en homonegativiteit vergeleken" "Bart Meuleman, Koen Abts, Koen Slootmaeckers, Cecil Meeusen" "The co-evolution of EU’s Eastern Enlargement and LGBT politics: An ever gayer Union?" "Koen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet" "Introduction: EU Enlargement and LGBT Rights: Beyond Symbolism?" "Koen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet" "Mad about Methods? Teaching Research Methods in Political Science" "Johan Adriaensen, Bart Kerremans, Koen Slootmaeckers" "Editors' Introduction to the Thematic Issue: Mad about Methods? Teaching Research Methods in Political Science" "Johan Adriaensen, Bart Kerremans, Koen Slootmaeckers"