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The result was nomination withdrawn, which is in order because all the criteria from the first limb of WP:SK obtain. Clearly there's scope to write something encyclopaedic in this space after all.—S Marshall T/C 21:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Capability–expectations gap[edit]

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This article is about a paper by respected Cambridge University professor Christopher J. Hill. This is that paper. The problems I have with this are firstly, that someone who types "Capability-expectations gap" into the search box isn't necessarily looking for an article about a 1993 paper about the now-defunct European Economic Community, and secondly, that we don't usually host articles about individual academic papers. Possibilities that I envisage include deleting it, selectively merging the content to European studies, selectively merging it to Christopher J. Hill, or doing both of the preceding things. What does the community think? —S Marshall T/C 11:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. —S Marshall T/C 11:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. —S Marshall T/C 11:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• I think the fact that a professor at the University of Copenhagen devotes an entire book to the CEG indicates that the fourth option, expanding the article with other people's analyses of this concept, is what to do. Larsen discusses how this has been discussed by others. For a briefer explanation of (than Larsen's) and another independent source for the CEG model, see Hlouchová 2018, pp. 28–31. Iveta Hlouchová is now a political science researcher at the University of New York in Prague.
  • Larsen, Henrik (2017). Gaps in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Concepts in European Studies. Springer. ISBN 9781349951666.
  • Hlouchová, Iveta (2018). Czech Approach toward Counterinsurgency. Vol. 17. Masarykova univerzita. ISBN 9788021089129.
• Uncle G (talk) 11:53, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hm. And when I did read Dr Hlouchová's source, I saw that she also cites Prof Dr Oldřich Bureš' United Nations Peacekeeping: Bridging the Capabilities-Expectations Gap, published in 2008, so I'm no longer in any doubt that scholars are writing about this in the 21st century. But what I also saw is that she calls the concept "essentially pre-theoretical" since he resorts to conceptualizing Europe's international capability rather than to theoretical explanations and predictions, and adds Inspired by Hill, the author of this monograph also refrains from the thorough theoretical framing of the research subject. I now wonder if this is a nebulous concept that has yet to be rigorously defined.—S Marshall T/C 14:11, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • The phrase "Welcome to the social sciences!" comes to mind. ☺ I dread someone recolouring that dangling hyperlink for "actorness". Larsen has a lot more rabbit holes to go down in terms of chasing other cited works. Hlouchová seemed like a solid source for at least an outline definition, and something simpler to begin with. And there are a fair amount of things like Niemann 2006, p. 113 around showing that it's something that other authors have applied. The problem is that, as ever, we have a decade-old cursory one-paragraph stub on a difficult subject. At least people didn't stuff it with random mentions in films and television shows, though. ☺
      • Niemann, Arne (2006). Explaining Decisions in the European Union. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521864053.
    • Uncle G (talk) 20:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, OK. There's scope to write something vaguely encyclopaedic in this space so the right thing for me to do is to withdraw the nomination. I leave it to you to decide whether to work on it in draft space or mainspace, and whether we need separate articles on the capability-expectations gap and capability-expectations gap in Europe.—S Marshall T/C 21:41, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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