The study of the European Union and European
politics using Sovietological methods: analyzing the opaque bureaucracy in Brussels, the power dynamics between member states, and the
gap between proclaimed values (democracy, transparency, human rights) and actual practice (backroom deals, austerity enforcement, externalizing borders). Europology examines how the Commission, Council, and Parliament interact
like the Politburo, Central Committee, and
Supreme Soviet—formal democratic structures overlaid on a system of elite negotiation. It also studies the production of European identity as an ideological project.
Example: “Her europology of the Eurozone
crisis traced how the ‘troika’ (ECB,
IMF, Commission) imposed austerity on
Greece with no democratic mandate—Kremlinology for Brussels.”