Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 03/May/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
WED00-R01: Pre-conference PhD symposium (1)
Location: Stevin
Chair: Marta Matrakova, ULB
Chair: Gustavo Müller, KU Leuven

Impact on EU policy instruments of the growing dissensus over liberal democracy and the rule of law

For more information on this Pre-conference PhD symposium, please consult the www.euia.eu website.

WED00-R02: Pre-conference PhD symposium (2)
Location: Albert I
Chair: Thomas Christiansen, Luiss University
Chair: Giulia Tercovich, Brussels School of Governance (VUB)

Actor-centred Perspectives on Dissensus in the European Union

For more information on this Pre-conference PhD symposium, please consult the www.euia.eu website.
WED00-R03: Pre-conference PhD symposium (3)
Location: Marie-Thérèse
Chair: Frederik Ponjaert, Université libre de Bruxelles
Chair: Chloé Brière, Université libre de Bruxelles

Internal contestation and its impact on the EU in times of dissensus

For more information on this Pre-conference PhD symposium, please consult the www.euia.eu website.

WED00-R04: Pre-conference PhD symposium (4)
Location: Baudewijn
Chair: Olga Burlyuk, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Laura Gelhaus, University of Warwick

External Competition and its impact on the EU

For more information on this Pre-conference PhD symposium, please consult the www.euia.eu website.

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee break 1

11:00am
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12:30pm
WED01-R01
Location: Prigogine
Chair: Jamal Shahin, VUB

 

EU digital policymaking: (dis)engagement through sovereignty?

Chair(s): Jamal SHAHIN (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Julia POHLE (WZB)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Making policies global, shaping policymaking locally: The EU’s twofold effect on the digital landscape in Africa

Stephanie ARNOLD
University of Bologna

 

Digital Sovereignty and the EU’s global competitiveness agenda

Orsolya GULYAS
Brussels School of Governance

 

The (im)possibilities of digital sovereignty in digital colonialism

Aisha KADIRI
Ecole Normale Supérieure



The EU as a Global Digital Actor: Image and Reality of the EU’s External Digital Policy towards Africa and the US

Elke SCHRAIK

University of Vienna, Austria

WED01-R02
Location: Stevin
 

The EU and the Indo-pacific: prospects, challenges and ways ahead

Chair(s): Luis SIMON (Centre for Security, Diplomacy & Strategy, BSoG - VUB)

Discussant(s): Bruno HELLENDORFF (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Belgium)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Shifting priorities? EU’s approach to the Indo-Pacific after the War in Ukraine

Giulia TERCOVICH1, Gorana GRGIC2
1Centre for Security, Diplomacy & Strategy, BSoG - VUB, 2University of Sydney

 

What does China want? Technology and Great Power Competition

Ludovica MEACCI
Centre for Security, Diplomacy & Strategy, BSoG - VUB

 

The EU-Japan partnership in the Indo-Pacific: drivers, deliverables and evolving strategic objectives

Eva PEJSOVA1, Elena ATANASSOVA CORNELIS2
1Centre for Security, Diplomacy & Strategy, BSoG - VUB, 2University of Antwerp

 

South Korea’s Grand Strategy: The Role of Europe

Ramon PACHECO PARDO
Centre for Security, Diplomacy & Strategy, BSoG - VUB & Kings College London & Kings College London

WED01-R03: The EU's trade policy: what is at stake?
Location: Albert I
Chair: Philippe De Lombaerde, UNU- CRIS

Discussant: Sven van Kerckhoven, BSoG

 

Of trade and trade-offs in times of geopolitics: The EU and critical raw materials

Sieglinde GSTÖHL, Jonathan SCHNOCK

College of Europe, Belgium



The environmental impact assessment of trade agreements: Is the EU at the vanguard ?

Ruben DEWITTE1, Simon HAPPERSBERGER2,3, Nidhi NAGABHATLA3, Glenn RAYP1,3, Linh Buy THI THUY3

1: Ghent University; 2: VUB/Brussels School of Governance; 3: UNU-CRIS, Belgium



The European Union's protectionist drive

Laia COMERMA CALATAYUD

Pompeu Fabra University, Spain



Leveraging EU Trade Power for Climate – Advancing climate goals through preferential trade agreements and their bodies

Alexandra BÖGNER

University of Salzburg, Austria

WED01-R04
Location: Marie-Thérèse
 

EUrope without Eurocentrism I: De-Centering Narratives of Europe in External Relations & Beyond

Chair(s): Maxine DAVID (Leiden University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Rebranding EU-ropeanisation: competing discourses over the reterritorialisation of Eastern Partnership countries

Tiffany G. WILLIAMS
University of Jena

 

When the African diasporas go European: diversifying development actors, re-centering Europe, silencing (de)coloniality

Valentina BROGNA
Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles

 

Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis – Towards a paradigmatic shift?

Stephan KEUKELEIRE, Sharon LECOCQ
University of Leuven – KU Leuven



EU-LAC trade relations and the contestation of normative interregionalism

Bruno LUCIANO

ULB

WED01-R05
Location: Rubens
 

Connectivity and Security: The Case of EU-Asia Relations

Chair(s): Sebastian BERSICK (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Discussant(s): Sebastian BERSICK (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A Comparison of the EU and the PRC ‘Data Security’ Concepts

Mireia PAULO
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

 

Maintaining Chinese routes’ transport security across Eurasia

Yuqiao LI
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

 

Securitizing ‘climate change’ in green taxonomy discourses: A comparative analysis between the EU and South Korea

Bohyun KIM
Universität Duisburg-Essen

 

The European Union and People´s Republic of China in Central Asia – (Dis)Connecting with Energy and Security Issues

Johanna G.B. RUST
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

WED01-R06
Location: Ockeghem
 

New encounters in EU-Eastern Partnership relations: reproduction of old geopolitics or renewed partnership?

Chair(s): Vjosa MUSLIU (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Nadège BOELS (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Geopolitics, (in)security and the EU’s evolving role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: towards a feminist perspective

Laura LUCIANI
Ghent University

 

The Sanction-based European foreign policy strategy: a boon for the symbolic geography of the European continent

Nadège BOELS
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

 

Winning Europe’s Hearts and Minds? Ukrainian Think Tanks as Public Diplomacy Actors in Times of War

Vera AXYONOVA1, Katsiaryna LOZKA2
1University of Vienna, 2Ghent University

 

Stigma and anxiety management through performativity. Belarus’ mediatized cooperation with Venezuela of Hugo Chávez and “multi-vector” foreign policy

Ekaterina PIERSON-LYZHINA
Libre Universite de Bruxelles

WED01R07
Location: Baudewijn
 

EU laws and policies on value chain due diligence: what are the prospects for addressing global challenges?

Chair(s): Jan ORBIE (Universiteit Gent)

Discussant(s): Liliana LIZARAZO RODRIGUEZ (Brussels School of Governance (VUB))

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Environmental and human rights due diligence: The critical role of transnational civil society networks

Maria-Therese GUSTAFSSON1, Almut SCHILLING-VACAFLOR2
1Stockholm University, 2Osnabrück University

 

Transformations in the EU anti-deforestation policies: the more things change, the more they stay the same?

Elke VERHAEGHE
UNU-CRIS

 

Human Rights Due Diligence and Public Procurement

Olga MARTIN-ORTEGA
University of Greenwich

 

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence – Friction between Human Rights and the Environment

João TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS
Brussels School of Governance (VUB)

 
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch break

1:30pm
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3:00pm
WED02R01
Location: Albert I

 

Sustainable Energy & Geopolitics in Uncertain Times – Part I: The EU

Chair(s): Caroline KUZEMKO (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)

Discussant(s): Jeffrey ROSAMOND (Gent University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Algeria, the EU and the sustainable energy transition

Claire DUPONT, Reinhilde BOUCKAERT
Gent University

 

EU energy market in the changing (new) geopolitics of clean energy transition

Tomasz JERZYNIAK1, Anna HERRANZ-SURRALLES2
1DG Energy, 2Maastricht University

 

Secure and also green? Juggling security of supply and sustainability in the European Union

Francesca BATZELLA
University of Hertfordshire

WED02R02: What role for the European Parliament in EU international affairs?
Location: Ockeghem
Chair: Bruno Luciano, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 Discussant: Bruno Luciano, ULB
 

The European Parliament and the Western Sahara conflict

Ragnar WEILANDT

KU Leuven, Belgium



Party-political contestation of European Trade Policy An analysis of rollcall votes in the European Parliament

Simon OTJES2, Harmen VAN DER VEER2, Wolfgang WAGNER1

1: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Leiden University, Netherlands, The



The Parliament’s moment(s). Analysing the timing of the European Parliament's involvement during the negotiation of international agreements

Marine BARDOU

Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE, UCLouvain), F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium

WED02R03: EU migration Policy: trends and discourses
Location: Stevin AV
Chair: Ine Lietaert, UNU-CRIS / UGent

Discussant: Ine Lietaert, UNU-CRIS / UGent

 

Racism, Violence, and Imperialism of the European Union’s Border Regime: Implications for EU theory

Eva POLONSKA-KIMUNGUYI

London School of Economics, United Kingdom



Migration, integration and the post-pandemic EU: The real issues

Adeleye Paul OYENIYI, Adekunle Olaniyi ADEGBITE, Moses Taiwo OLOOTO

National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Nigeria



Same Term, Different Meaning—What the Changed Definition of “Coherence” Can Tell About the EU’s Shifting Engagement with Migration-Sending Countries

Julia SCHWEERS1, Elaine LEBON-MCGREGOR2, Maria GABRIELSEN JUMBERT3, Marie GODIN1

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Maastricht University, Netherlands; 3: Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway



Bargaining strategies and asymmetrical power relations: Niger’s cooperation with the EU on migration and security

Lorenzo GHIONE

University of Bologna, Italy

WED02R04
Location: Rubens

 

Knowledge production on Russia’s war against Ukraine. The promise and peril of IR

Chair(s): Olga BURLYUK (University of Amsterdam)

Discussant(s): Vjosa MUSLIU (VUB)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Grounding the Know-It-Alls: Is Russian aggression in Ukraine finally bringing CEE voices into core IR?

Annette FREYBERG-INAN
University of Amsterdam

 

Paper 2: Epistemic superimposition: on the phenomenon of Westsplaining Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Jan DUTKIEWICZ1, Jan SMOLENSKI2
1Harvard Law School, 2The New School for Social Research

 

Whose war is it (or not)? Who speaks for whom? Perspectives from the ‘Global South’ on the Ukraine Crisis

Siddharth TRIPATHI
University of Erfurt

WED02R05
Location: Marie-Thérèse

 

Straddling Connectivity and Contestation: Challenges to EU External Action

Chair(s): Kolja RAUBE (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Alexander MATTELAER (VUB, Belgium)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Connectivity in theory and practice: Fostering Contestation and Cooperation in EU external action?

Katja BIEDENKOPF, Kolja RAUBE
KU Leuven, Belgium

 

Connecting with hybrid actors: The European Union’s diplomatic practices in contested environments

Sharon LECOCQ
KU Leuven, Belgium

 

EU-China Cooperation and Contestation in Global Health Governance: the case of Traditional (Chinese) Medicine

Edith DRIESKENS
KU Leuven, Belgium



The EU’s “Geopolitical Turn”: What Role for the Foreign Policy Think Tanks?

Jasa VESELINOVIC

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

WED02R06: EU Foreign Policy: The challenges of cooperation
Location: Baudewijn
Chair: Tereza Novotna, Free University Berlin / Universite libre de Bruxelles
Chair: Marta Matrakova, ULB

 Discussant: Marta Matrakova, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 

Defining specialisation in EU small states’ foreign policy

Tomáš WEISS1, Heidi MAURER2, Sandra FERNANDES3

1: Charles University, Czechia; 2: Danube University Krems, Austria; 3: University of Minho, Portugal



Minding the Gaps: Solidarity and Burden-Sharing in the European Union’s Pandemic Response

Péter MARTON1, Balázs SZENT-IVÁNYI2

1: Corvinus University of Budapest; 2: Aston University



How populist foreign policy challenges European foreign policy practices

Ana E. JUNCOS1, Karolina POMORSKA2

1: University of Bristol, United Kingdom; 2: Leiden University, Netherlands



From Aid Recipients to Donors: Development Cooperation of EU Members from Central and Eastern Europe

Malgorzata ZAJACZKOWSKI1, Mateusz SMOLAGA2

1: Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; 2: Univerity of Szczecin, Poland

WED02R07: EU framing and facing security challenges
Location: Prigogine
Chair: Jamie Pring, United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies

Discussant: Jamie Pring, UNU CRIS
 

Eye in the Sky: The Double Standards of Turkey’s Use of Drones on Migration

Styliani GERANI

University of Macedonia, Greece



The new land border with the UK: legal issues for asylum and migration

Ayesha RIAZ

Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom



Can European-led ad hoc operations contribute to EU defence integration? Insights from Task Force Takuba

Pernille RIEKER1, Yf REYKERS2

1: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; 2: Maastricht University



Your mission: Don’t forget the civilians. How NGOs target EU military staff to reduce civilian harm in conflict regions

Daphné CHAROTTE

Maastricht University, Netherlands, The

 
3:00pm
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3:30pm
WED-PL1

15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee / Networking

3:30pm
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4:30pm
WED-OPEN: Opening session
Location: Auditorium Albert II
Speaker: Robert Brieger, EU Military Committee

Welcome words from the conference team: Frank Mattheis, Florian Trauner & Gaëlle Le Pavic

Keynote by General Brieger, Chairman of the EU Military Committee

Video adress by Olha Stefanishyna, Ukrainian deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration

4:45pm
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6:15pm
Egmont policy panel: The war in Ukraine - providing security and defence in and to Europe
Location: Auditorium Albert II
Chair: Sven Biscop, Egmont Institute & Ghent University
Speaker: Jan Joel Andersson
Speaker: Bart Laurent
Speaker: Tania Latici
Speaker: Hanna Ilona Smith

Panelists:

Jan Joel Anderson (EUISS)

Brigadier-General Bart Laurent (EUMS)

Tania Latici (EEAS)

Hanna Smith (OSCE)

UNU-CRIS policy panel: Europe’s (Dis)Engagement with Africa
Location: Baudewijn
Chair: Philippe De Lombaerde, UNU- CRIS
Chair: Fredrik Söderbaum, University of Gothenburg
Speaker: Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, OACPS Secretary-General
Speaker: Mariella Di Ciommo
Speaker: Amandine GNANGUENON, UNU-CRIS (Université des Nations Unies – Institut d'Études Comparatives d'Intégration régionale)
Speaker: Domenico Rosa, European Commission

Participants:

H.E. Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, OACPS Secretary-General

Mariella Di Ciommo, Associate Director, Europe and Africa in the world cluster, ECDPM

Amandine Gnanguenon, Associate Research Fellow, UNU-CRIS

6:15pm
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7:45pm
Reception
Location: Marble Hall
Date: Thursday, 04/May/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
THU01-R01
Location: Rubens
 

An evolving European Union Development Policy: Actorness, actor perspectives and contributions

Chair(s): Niels KEIJZER (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Germany)

Discussant(s): Jan ORBIE (University of Ghent)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Framing and contesting EU development policy performance: the role of the European Court of Auditors

Julian BERGMANN
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

 

The European Investment Bank in sub-Saharan Africa: Managing credit risk

Anissa BOUGREA, Matthias VERMEIREN, Jan ORBIE
University of Ghent

 

EU actorness in the migration-development nexus

Alexandra BERGER
University of Ghent

 

merging stronger from the crisis? Efforts towards stronger cooperation in EU development policy under “Team Europe”

Svea KOCH, Niels KEIJZER, Ina FRIESEN
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

THU01-R02
Location: Baudewijn
 

Analyzing third countries’ engagement with the EU’s migration control policies

Chair(s): Florian TRAUNER (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Omar CHAM (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Professionalising social change: when being a ‘returnee’ becomes a job

Rossella MARINO1, Ine LIETAERT1, Joris SCHAPENDONK2
1UNU-CRIS/UGent, 2Radboud University

 

(Mis-)Trust in Transit – Local effects of external migration control on migrants’ humanitarian access in the Sahel region

Zina WEISNER
University for Continuing Education Krems

 

Upstreaming Europe’s Borders and Vernacular Resilience: Experiences of Return, Resettlement, and Reintegration in the Sahel

Akinyemi OYAWALE, Thom TYERMAN, Nick VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, Shirin RAI
University of Warwick

 

We cannot go back, and we cannot move forward – the role of information in onward migration of Afghan nationals from Turkey to Europe

Jan-Paul BREKKE, Kjersti THORBJØRNSRUD
Institute for Social Research

THU01-R03
Location: Ockeghem
 

Thinking Ukraine. Writing as Ukrainian scholars

Chair(s): Vjosa MUSLIU (VUB)

Discussant(s): Olga BURLYUK (University of Amsterdam)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Paper 2: Armed to the tweet. Narratives that defend the nation

Alina PENKALA, Ine LIETAERT, Ilse DERLUYN
UGent

 

The Weight of War: Whose Responsibility to Recognise and Manage It?

Maxine DAVID
Leiden University

 

Paper 4: ‘When Should We (Not) Speak?: Ethical, Methodological, and Epistemological Considerations for Knowledge Production'

Marnie HOWLETT1, Valerie LAZARENKO2
1Oxford University, 2Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space

THU01-R04
Location: Auditorium Albert II
 

Strategic Autonomy: examining an evolving concept from discursive perspectives

Chair(s): Ediz Bener TOPCUOGLU (College of Europe, Catholic University of Lille)

Discussant(s): Giovanni GREVI (Brussels School of Governance, European Policy Centre, Sciences Po Paris, College of Europe)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

When national interests are the cause of European ideas: Liberal Intergovernmentalism and the “strategic autonomy” discourse

Salih Isik BORA
Sciences Po Paris, University of Cambridge

 

The EU-NATO relationship and strategic autonomy in light of the Ukrainian crisis: a conceptual analysis

Lorenzo GIUGLIETTI1, Ediz Bener TOPCUOGLU2
1Staffordshire University,College of Europe, 2College of Europe, Catholic University of Lille

 

EU strategic autonomy through the lens of role theory: comparing Iranian and European perspectives on the EU’s role in the Iranian nuclear deal

Martin DUDERMEL
College of Europe

 

Decentring the EU: examining Strategic Autonomy discourse and democracy and human rights promotion

Sara CANALI
European Diplomatic Academy (College of Europe)

THU01-R05: The EU's response to climate change and resource scarcity : challenges for policy makers
Location: Stevin
Chair: Sebastian OBERTHUR, Brussels School of Governance

Chair: Sebastian Oberthur, BSoG 

 

The external hydrogen relations of the European Union (EU): Assessing discourses towards and within partner countries

Friedrich PLANK1, Johannes MUNTSCHICK1, Michèle KNODT2, Arne NIEMANN1

1: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; 2: Technical University Darmstadt



Local and regional governments in the climate-development nexus: analysing the EU’s change of narrative

Amandine SABOURIN

ULB/IEE & ECDPM, Belgium



The externalisation of European Union climate policy: how CBAM is driving climate policy in non-EU countries

Simon Dominik OTTO

Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium

THU01-R07
Location: Prigogine
 

Europe in times of crisis: A role theory perspective

Chair(s): Aslak Veierud BUSCH (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Anna MICHALSKI (Uppsala University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Is co-leadership in the international system between the EU, China, and the US possible? The example of climate change governance

Kim VENDER
University of Edinburgh

 

The Ukraine War and the Quest for European Leadership: Britain and the EU after Brexit

Lisbeth AGGESTAM
University of Gothenburg

 

Role forcing in international relations: The case of Russia-Ukraine relations

Stephan KLOSE, Aslak Veierud BUSCH
Brussels School of Governance



An inverted capability-expectations gap? Challenging prevailing narratives about the European Union's global health actorness

Óscar FERNÁNDEZ

IBEI, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

   
10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee Break 2

11:00am
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12:30pm
THU02-R01: The EU's approach to the Middle East: dealing with nuclear power
Location: Prigogine
Chair: Jan Claudius Völkel, University of Ottawa

Discussant: Jan Claudius VÖLKEL (University of Ottawa)

 

The EU’s Engagement in the Iranian Nuclear Issue: Between Normative Power and Pragmatic Diplomacy

Sadaf SHAHHOSSEINI

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France



The Abraham Accords and the Iran Deal – A post-24 February 2022 Approach

Achilles SKORDAS

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany



The European Union at the Beginning of the Third Nuclear Age

Wannes Johan VERSTRAETE

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

THU02-R02
Location: Rubens

 

Sustainable Energy & Geopolitics in Uncertain Times – Part II: Conceptual Development

Chair(s): Sebastian OBERTHUER (Brussels School of Governance, VUB)

Discussant(s): Louis FLETCHER (University of Warwick)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Sustainable Energy Transformation

Caroline KUZEMKO1, Mathieu BLONDEEL2, Michael BRADSHAW2, Gavid BRIDGE3, Erika FAIGEN4
1University of Warwick, 2Warwick Business School, 3Durham University, 4University of Vienna

 

Global Energy Scenarios: A geopolitical Reality Check

Mathieu BLONDEEL1, James PRICE2
1Warwick Business School, 2University College London



Third time lucky? Reconciling climate and energy security in the EU’s energy response to the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Marco GIULI, Sebastian OBERTHUR

VUB, Belgium

THU02-R03: (Re)assessing the EU Eastern partnership and enlargement policy
Location: Ockeghem
Chair: Marta Matrakova, ULB

Discussant: Marta Matrakova, ULB
 

The trapping of soft power: Re-assessing the EU’s foreign policy towards its Eastern Neighborhood

Dumitru MINZARARI, Shota GVINERIA

Baltic Defence College, Estonia



Expanding the European Administrative Space: Towards European Integration Beyond Enlargement?

Michel Vincent ANDERLINI

Malmö University, Sweden



Dynamics of Enlargement in the Western Balkans. The Impact of EU Conditionality in Albanian Politics

Juliana GJINKO

University of Tirana, Albania



The Politicisation of EU Enlargement Policy in the Western Balkans - before and after the war in Ukraine

Miruna BUTNARU TRONCOTA

SNSPA, Romania

THU02-R04: EU as a norm maker in external action
Location: Auditorium Albert II
Chair: Alison Woodward, VUB

Discussant: Alison Woodward, VUB

 
 

EU values of democracy and rule of law into investment law and policy

Maria Laura MARCEDDU

European University Institute, Italy



The EU as a Global Gender Actor: Tracing Intersectionality in the European Gender Action Plans for External Relations 2010-2025

Eva Luna MAES, Petra Helena DEBUSSCHER

Ghent University, Belgium



Bureaucratized Gender Norm: Contribution and Limitation to the Third Countries

Tomohiro FUKUDA

Waseda University, Japan



The European Union (EU): a neutral and independent actor when delivering humanitarian aid programmes? An empirical analysis

Irene MORLINO

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom

THU02-R05
Location: Stevin
 

Good Global Governance and the EU and US

Chair(s): Kolja RAUBE (University of Leuven)

Discussant(s): Kojla RAUBE (University of Leuven)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Deeds, not words’? – Transatlantic Actors between Good Global Governance and Geostrategic Adaptation

Kolja RAUBE
University of Leuven

 

Is opaque club government the EU’s response to a geopolitical coming of age?

Maarten HILLEBRANDT
Utrecht University

 

Intergovernmental Drift or Who is Afraid of Democratic Contestation in the EU

Dionyssis DIMITRAKOPOULOS
Birkbeck, University of London

THU02-R06: EU - China relations: Trends and Challenges
Location: Baudewijn
Chair: Frederik Ponjaert, Université libre de Bruxelles

Discussant: Frederik Ponjaert, ULB
 

The role of EU cultural policy in the EU-China relationships

Fei Vincent MO

Central European University, Austria



EU-China Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Xi 3.0

Chien-Huei WU

IEAS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan



The role of cities in the EU’s policy towards China

Tomasz KAMIŃSKI, Joanna CIESIELSKA-KLIKOWSKA

University of Lodz, Poland



EU-Asia-Pacific Security Relations in a Changing Geo-political Context

Emil Joseph KIRCHNER

University of Essex, United Kingdom

   
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch break 2

1:30pm
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2:30pm
Honoring the legacy of Mario Telò
Location: Baudewijn
The EU in the Academy of War: A conversation with the European Foreign Affairs Review
Location: Auditorium Albert II
Chair: Ramses A. Wessel, University of Groningen
Chair: Frank Mattheis, United Nations University
Speaker: Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen
2:45pm
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4:15pm
THU04-R01
Location: Stevin AV
 

Perceptions of the European Union in the Eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Chair(s): Fabienne BOSSUYT (U Gent, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Stephan KEUKELEIRE (KU Leuven)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A comparative analysis of the soft power of Russia, China, and the European Union amongst students of top universities in Kazakhstan

John IRGENGIORO1, Karolina KLUCZEWKA1, Natalia CHABAN2, Fabienne BOSSUYT1
1Ugent, 2University of Canterbury, New Zealand

 

Russia’s War in Ukraine and Transformation of EU Public Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities

Natalia CHABAN1, Ole ELGSTRÖM2
1University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2Lund University, Sweden

 

EU perceptions among Civil Society Organisations providing social services in Abkhazia and Transnistria from defiance to partnership

Gaëlle LE PAVIC
Ugent - UNU-CRIS

 

External democracy promotion in times of internal EU rule-of-law crisis

Olga BURLYUK1, Gergana NOUTCHEVA2, Assem DANDASHLY2
1University of Amsterdam, 2University of Maastricht

THU04-R02
Location: Rubens
 

Strategising European Security and External Action: strategic environments and partnerships

Chair(s): Robert KISSACK (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI))

Discussant(s): Eva MICHAELS (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI))

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Strategising with external threats and challenges: shaping or reacting to the global environment

Gustavo MULLER1, Monika SUS2
1KU Leuven, 2Hertie School

 

Out of Time? Temporal Inconsistency in Mimetic Adoption – the EU’s Global Strategic Partnerships

Benjamin MARTILL, Alexander MESAROVICH
The University of Edinburgh

 

The European Union and its strategic partners: engaging with global players

Meltem MUFTULER-BAC, Senem AYDIN-DUZGIT, Ezgi UZUN
Sabanci University

THU04-R03
Location: Ockeghem
 

Security Regionalism in Africa and External Partners: Uneven Relationships and (Un)Intended Effects

Chair(s): Arne NIEMANN (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)

Discussant(s): Julian BERGMANN (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS))

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Theorising Regionalism and External Actors

Johannes MUNTSCHICK
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

 

Spies, bullies and quasi-members: external partners and regional organizations in Africa

Fredrik SÖDERBAUM
University of Gothenburg & Associate Research Fellow, UNU-CRIS

 

Evaluating the effectiveness of the ECOWAS-EU interregional partnership on peace and security in the context of the Mali crisis

Friedrich PLANK
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

 

The influence of the European Support on the Effectiveness of APSA

Amandine GNANGUENON
UNU-CRIS

THU04-R04
Location: Auditorium Albert II
 

RENPET panel: “New challenges, new forms of European diplomacy? Theoretical considerations and empirical considerations (Part I)

Chair(s): Richard WHITMAN (University of Kent)

Discussant(s): Richard WHITMAN (University of Kent)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The EU at the forefront of the new global agenda? Climate change, sustainable development and EU diplomatic practices

Anna MICHALSKI1, Niklas BREMBERG2
1Uppsala University, 2Stockholm University

 

New label, but old practices? Analyzing EU Delegations’ views on the Team Europe approach in climate and energy diplomacy

Franziska PETRI
KU Leuven



Beyond Cooperation Agreements: Third-Country Regulators de facto Participation to European agencies

Thibaud DERUELLE, Sandra LAVENEX, Matis POUSSARDIN

University of Geneva, Switzerland

THU04-R05
Location: Baudewijn AV
 

Shifting understandings of resilience in a rapidly changing world

Chair(s): Elena KOROSTELEVA (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)

Discussant(s): Elena KOROSTELEVA (University of Warwick)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Resilience 2.0: British and European approaches to resilience post-Brexit

Pol BARGUES1, Ana JUNCOS2
1CIDOB, 2University of Bristol

 

Resilience in war: the case of the EU’s support for security sector reform (SSR) in Ukraine

Asya KUDLENKO
University of Warwick

 

Complex International Relations: Rethinking the EU’s Approach to Resilience

Irina PETROVA
UCL SSEES

 

Constructing ‘resilience imaginaries’ of the future through and community data generation

Vangelis PITIDIS, Jon COAFFEE
University of Warwick

THU04-R06: Trends of European cooperation with other regions
Location: Prigogine
Chair: Maria Gabriela Ramos-Barrera, Politécnico Grancolombiano

Discussant:  Maria Gabriela Ramos-Barrera, Politécnico Grancolombiano
 

European Union and ASEAN: Challenges and Chances

Marcin GRABOWSKI

Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland



Europe’s FOMO and the rise of infrastructural interregionalism: The Global Gateway in Africa

Tim ZAJONTZ

Stellenbosch University, South Africa



Selecting investors: who offers the best chances to increase Latin American exports?

José Wilmar QUINTERO-PEÑA1, Bilver Adrian ASTORQUIZA BUSTOS2

1: Politécnico Grancolombiano; 2: Universidad de Manizales

THU04-R07
Location: Leeszaal
 

Europe and the war in Ukraine: A role theory perspective

Chair(s): Stephan KLOSE (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Lisbeth AGGESTAM (University of Gothenburg)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The EU’s role conception and Eastern Partnership countries since the war in Ukraine: Bridging the Gap?

Laure DELCOUR1, Kataryna WOLCZUK2
1Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2University of Birmingham

 

Ontological security crises and social structural change: The European Union’s role conception change in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Gordon FRIEDRICHS, Jule SOMMER
University of Freiburg

 

EU as a security power: the changing threat perceptions in the Baltic Region and the Nordic EU member states’ changing role perceptions

Anna MICHALSKI1, Douglas BROMMESSON2, Ann-Marie EKENGREN3
1Uppsala University, 2Linnaeus University, 3Gothenburg University

 

From staunch opposition to refugees to a state of refuge: Poland’s national role conceptions and response to the Ukrainian crisis

Saskia SMELLIE1, Damian STRYCHARZ2
1University of Edinburgh, 2Cracow University of Economics

 
4:45pm
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6:15pm
THU05R01
Location: Auditorium Albert II

 

RENPET panel: “New challenges, new forms of European diplomacy? Theoretical considerations and empirical considerations (Part II)

Chair(s): Niklas BREMBERG (Stockholm University)

Discussant(s): Niklas BREMBERG (Stockholm University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Conference on the Future of Europe and the future of citizen involvement in EU foreign policy-making

Jost-Henrik MORGENSTERN-POMORSKI1, Kolja RAUBE2
1University of Birmingham, 2KU Leuven

 

Countering Hybrid Interference: EU Diplomacy on High Alert

Elena SIMANSCHI, Eugene KONDRATOV, Elisabeth JOHANSSON-NOGUES
IBEI

 

Process and Position Power: a Social Relational Research Agenda about State Power in Negotiations

Marianna LOVATO1, Heidi MAURER2
1University College Dublin, 2Danube University Krems

THU05R02
Location: Stevin

 

Analyzing West African countries’ engagement with the EU’s migration information campaigns

Chair(s): Ilke ADAM (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Discussant(s): Ilke ADAM (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Uptake of awareness-raising campaigns in countries of migrants’ origin: A funding model for returnee networks?

Sophie MEINERS, Svenja NIEDERFRANKE, Victoria RIETIG
German Council on Foreign Relations

 

The impact of EU-funded information campaigns on migration narratives in West Africa

Ilke ADAM, Omar N. CHAM, Florian TRAUNER
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

 

Can delegation exhaust the instrument? Testing the EU's anti-migration propaganda against its intermediation in West Africa

Julia VAN DESSEL
ULB

 

Does credibility beat anxiety? The mediating impact in migration information campaigns: Evidence from a field experiment

Sandra MORGENSTERN
2) University of Mannheim, MZES

THU05R03
Location: Baudewijn

 

EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL: The environment-development nexus and climate diplomacy

Chair(s): Markus Florian PAULI (Dublin City University, Ireland), Goran DOMINIONI (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Discussant(s): Goran DOMINIONI (Dublin City University, Ireland), Kasturi DAS (Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment & its Discontents: Stakeholders’ Perceptions in the German and Indian Automotive, Steel, and Aluminium Industry

Markus Florian PAULI
Dublin City University, Ireland

 

The European Green Deal and ‘leading by example’ for green transition in Africa. A critical exploration.

Sara DE SIMONE, Louisa Rosemary PARKS
University of Trento

 

A little bit of everything: the EU’s navigation of the international regime complex on climate change 2016 – 2021

Joseph EARSOM, Tom DELREUX
University of Louvain

THU05R04
Location: Rubens

 

Strategising European Security and External Action: strategic policies and acceptability

Chair(s): Gustavo MULLER (KU Leuven)

Discussant(s): Marie VANDENDRIESSCHE (ESADE)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Is Russia’s war in Ukraine a critical juncture in national parliamentarians’ willingness to deploy European military force?

Robert KISSACK, Eva MICHAELS, Óscar FERNÁNDEZ
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

 

Strategising beyond CSDP - External Action Plus and Security

Kinga BRUDZINSKA1, Andrea CHRISTOU2, Chad DAMRO2, Vladislava GLUBALOVA1, Meltem MUFTULER-BAC3, Nihat MUGURTAY3, Lucia RYBNIKAROVA1
1GLOBSEC, 2The University of Edinburgh, 3Sabanci University

 

Strategising European defence through the European defence industry

Ester SABATINO
IISS

 

Strategising EU decision-making in the face of new challenges: mainstreaming qualified majority voting in the Common Foreign and Security Policy

Viktor SZEP
University of Groningen

THU05R05: New conceptualisations and frames in EU foreign policy
Location: Ockeghem
Chair: Tongfi Kim

Discussant: Kim Tongfi, VUB
 

The European Union in emerging technologies: new conceptualisations shaping the drone ecosystem

Chantal LAVALLÉE

Royal Military College Saint-Jean, Canada



The Evolution of the EU’s (Strategic) Sovereignty / Autonomy Discourse in 2017-2022: The cases of energy and digital spheres

Tatiana ROMANOVA

St. Petersburg State University



Towards a European Union ‘water diplomacy’? How the EU frames water in its external action

Simon SCHUNZ, Ediz TOPCUOGLU

College of Europe, Belgium

THU05R06
Location: Prigogine

 

EUrope without Eurocentrism II: Reading Coloniality in Europe's History & Present

Chair(s): Maria GARCIA (University of Bath)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Coloniality and Russia’s War on Ukraine

Maxine DAVID
Leiden University

 

Ruling the unruly: Coloniality of power and EU trade policy towards the global souths

Antonio Salvador M. ALCAZAR III
Central European University

 

The House of European History: Virgin Birth reenacted?

Ann-Sophie VAN BAEVEGHEM, Jan ORBIE
Ghent University



Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed Refugees: European Universities and the Plight of African Students Fleeing Ukraine

Victor AGBOGA

University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Nigeria

   
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Cocktail Reception

The reception will take place on the 5th floor of the Royal Library of Belgium (Monts des Arts 28, 1000 Brussels).

NB: The reception is only accessible for registered presenters of the EUIA conference, please bring your badge with you.

Date: Friday, 05/May/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
FRI01-R01: The EU's approach to Central Asia and the recognition of states
Location: Albert I
Chair: Fabienne Bossuyt, UGent

Discussant: Fabienne Bossuyt, UGent
 

EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices

Karolina KLUCZEWSKA1, Rick FAWN2, Oleg KORNEEV3

1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; 3: Higher School of Economics, Russia



Innovation policies of the European Union and their place in EU-Kazakhstan relations

Radostina SCHIVATCHEVA

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom



The European Union and the Recognition of States

Gëzim VISOKA1, Edward NEWMAN2

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: University of Leeds, UK



THE EU IN AFGHANISTAN AFTER AUGUST 2021- THE LOGIC OF PRACTICE

Ludovica MARCHI

London School of Economics and Political Sciences

FRI01-R02
Location: Marie-Thérèse
 

EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL: Designing Environmental Border Adjustment Mechanisms

Chair(s): Markus PAULI (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Discussant(s): Markus PAULI (Dublin City University, Ireland), Louisa PARKS (University of Trento)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Potential Implications of the EU’s CBAM on Deep Decarbonization and Just Transition in India

Kasturi DAS1, Kaushik BANDYOPADHYAY2
1IMT Ghaziabad, 2Indian Institute of Management

 

Designing Effective Border-Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes

Goran DOMINIONI1, Daniel ESTY2
1Dublin City University, 2Yale Law School

 

Sufficiency: The Missing Elephants in the EU Trade and Biodiversity Agenda?

Nicolas ROUX1, Johanna COENEN2
1University of natural resources and life sciences, 2University of Leuphana

FRI01-R03
Location: Stevin
 

Mixed pathways of (dis)engagement: unpacking the complexification of EU migration policies

Chair(s): Florian TRAUNER (VUB)

Discussant(s): Florian TRAUNER (VUB)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The limits of EU market power in migration externalization – mapping migration control provisions in EU PTAs

Paula HOFFMEYER-ZLOTNIK1, Sandra LAVENEX2, Philip LUTZ3
1University of Cologne, 2University of Geneva, 3Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Extending migrants’ rights but limiting long-term settlement. Is there a Europeanisation effect in migrant integration policy trends?

Giacomo SOLANO1, Samuel David SCHMID2, Marc HELBLING3
1Migration Policy Group, 2University of Lucerne, 3University of Mannheim

 

From policy-mixes to configurations: disentangling interlinkages in European migration-relevant policies

Mathias CZAIKA, Heidrun BOHNET, Federica ZARDO
University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria



IOM’s WAKA Well unraveled: a Multimodal Discourse Analysis of an internet-based Migration-Information Campaign

Gaetano GIANCASPRO

University of Bologna, Italy

FRI01-R04
Location: Baudewijn
 

Sustainability and geo-economic challenges to EU trade policy

Chair(s): Harri KALIMO (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium), Ferdi DE VILLE (University of Ghent), Sven VAN KERCKHOVEN (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Ferdi DEVILLE (University of Ghent), Harri KALIMO (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium), Sjorre COUVREUR (University of Ghent), Thomas VERELLEN (University of Utrecht), Simon HAPPERSBERGER (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A new geoeconomic entente? - Assessing the institutional cooperation behind the EU-US Trade and Technology Council

Sjorre COUVREUR
University of Ghent

 

Unilateralisation of International Trade Governance: Mapping and Explaining Differences in Actors, Motives, and Effects

Ferdi DEVILLE1, Simon HAPPERSBERGER2, Harri KALIMO2
1University of Ghent, 2Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

 

The EU as a Self-Acclaimed Protagonist? The Agency of Trading Partners on EU Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters

Caroline BERTRAM1, Simon HAPPERSBERGER2
1University of Copenhagen, 2Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

 

The unilateralisation of EU trade policy: a constitutional perspective

Thomas VERELLEN
University of Utrecht



The Brussels Effect in the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement – Is the EU promoting or exporting its Geographical Indications?

Anke KENNIS

Waseda University, Japan

FRI01-R05
Location: Rubens
 

Knowledge production in higher education: Between Europe and the Middle East

Chair(s): Jan Claudius VÖLKEL (IES Abroad Freiburg, Germany), Michelle PACE (Roskilde University)

Discussant(s): Michelle PACE (Roskilde University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Middle East Studies in Italy: a field in search of an identity and recognition within and outside academia

Giulia CIMINI1, Claudia DE MARTINO2
1University of Bologna, 2University of Rome

 

The Netherlands: teaching the enlightened student

Anne DE JONG
University of Amsterdam

 

Knowledge production at a time of pandemic: navigating between Syria and the UK

Juline BEAUJOUAN
University of Edinburgh

FRI01-R06
Location: Auditorium Albert II
 

Cultivating the Union’s Foreign Relations: The EEAS and International Diplomacy

Chair(s): Caterina CARTA (BSoG)

Discussant(s): Caterina CARTA (BSoG)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

In lieu of formal rules: A typology of how the EEAS informally coordinates a common position among EU member states in multilateral settings

Gert Tinggaard SVENDSEN, Jonas Gejl KAAS
Aarhus University

 

The EU in a New World Order

Tonny Brems KNUDSEN, Jonas Gejl KAAS
Aarhus University

 

Paradigm shifts in the politics of EU foreign policy

Knud Erik JØRGENSEN1, Laura LANDORFF2
1Aarhus University, 2Lund University



Military balancing, institutional entrepreneurship and European solidarity: Explaining the launch and design of the EU’s military assistance mission to Ukraine

Iulian ROMANYSHYN1,2, Julian BERGMANN3

1: Academy of International Affairs NRW, Germany; 2: Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn; 3: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

FRI01-R07
Location: Ockeghem
 

The geopolitics of the EU promoted resilience in the Eastern Neighborhood

Chair(s): Ria LAENEN (KU Leuven)

Discussant(s): Ria LAENEN (KU Leuven)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Building EU-ropean resilience, pacing EU-ropean integration: Strategic foresight for partner and candidate country reforms

Tiffany G. WILLIAMS
University of Jena

 

State resilience in EU Associated Trio and the EU from constructivist perspective

Teona LAVRELASHVILI
KU Leuven



Armenia: from the bridge to the hub

Louise AMORIS

Ghent University, Belgium



The frontrunner for EU integration and Russia’s ally in the invasion of Ukraine: the curious case of Serbia

Vjosa MUSLIU

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 
10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee break 3

11:00am
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12:30pm
FRI-PL: Roundtable with Journal Editors
Location: Auditorium Albert II
Chair: Elisa Lopez Lucia, ULB
Chair: Frank Mattheis, United Nations University
Speaker: Lisbeth Aggestam, Gothenburg University
Speaker: Thomas Christiansen, Luiss University
Speaker: Ramses A. Wessel, University of Groningen
Speaker: Jocelyn Mawdsley

Conversation with Journal Editors

Lisbeth Aggestam (Foreign Policy Analysis), Thomas Christiansen (Journal of European Integration),  Jocelyn Mawdsley (European Security), Ramses A. Wessel (European Foreign Affairs Review)

FRI02-R01
Location: Marie-Thérèse
 

Disengaging with international solidarity: “unpacking” the externalization of EU migration policy

Chair(s): Gaia ROMEO (Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Discussant(s): Federica ZARDO (University for Continuing Education Krems)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

From the Polish-Belarus border crisis to the reception of Ukrainian refugees: migration as a political tool in the EU’s CFSP?

Diego CABALLERO VÉLEZ, Sara BOJARCZUK
Centre of Migration Research University of Warsaw

 

Autocracies, democracies and the forcible return of migrants from the EU

Philipp STUTZ
Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

 

(Dis)Engaging with the human rights of asylum seekers: an analysis of the actors dealing with the application of safe third country policies

Gaia ROMEO
Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

 

Aspirations over time and across barriers: Lived experiences of EU's migration policies

Ahmad Wali AHMAD YAR, Damini PURKAYASTHA, Tuba BIRCAN
Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

FRI02-R02: EU - Russia relations: competing for the hearts and minds in their shared neighbourhood
Location: Rubens
Chair: Fabienne Bossuyt, UGent

Discussant: Fabienne Bossuyt, UGent

 

Russia’s Religious Diplomacy on Twitter in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood: Insights form Computational Text Analysis

Olesya TKACHEVA, Sophie TARIMANISHVILI

Brussels School of Governance, Belgium



EU relations with its eastern neighbourhood: from transformational diplomacy to resilience, and what’s next?

Maria Raquel FREIRE

CES, FEUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal



“And then we sang”: A participant-oriented analysis of the EU’s and Russia’s public diplomacies in Moldova’s May 9

Domenico VALENZA

Ghent University, Belgium



Putin’ the past to work: Russia’s strategic use of historical narratives as an ontological security-seeking instrument

Laura VANSINA1,2

1: Brussels School of Governance (VUB); 2: University of Warwick

FRI02-R03
Location: Baudewijn
 

Re-imagining EU foreign and security policy in a heavily contested world

Chair(s): Hylke DIJKSTRA (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

Discussant(s): Giulia TERCOVICH (VUB)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Member states contestation and maintaining unity: The EU response to the Venezuelan crisis

Anna AYUSO
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 

Navigating member states contestation on EU policy on Kosovo: The enlargement process, Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and EULEX mission

Pol BARGUES1, Gergana NOUTCHEVA2
1Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), 2Maastricht University

 

Weathering geopolitical storms: The E3/EU’s diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear programme

Riccardo ALCARO
IAI Rome

 

Making sense of the European Foreign and Security Policy in the Libyan crisis

Assem DANDASHLY
Maastricht University

FRI02-R04: Norms, discourses and framings in the EU’s external engagement
Location: Albert I
Chair: George Christou, Warwick

Discussant: George Christou, Warwick

 

The EU Entrapment between its normative and pragmatist approach in the MENA region: Evidence from Jordan

Lina ALEASSA

Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary



The EU and the 2013 coup in Egypt

Ragnar WEILANDT

KU Leuven, Belgium



See no EU, speak no EU: UK foreign policy discourse post-Brexit

Laura GELHAUS

University of Warwick, United Kingdom



Remote (un)control. Supporting exiled journalism in the EU as a soft power tool against autocratization in Turkey and Iran

Simone BENAZZO

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

FRI02-R05
Location: Stevin AV
 

How does the EU feel in a ‘dangerous world’? The role of emotions in the EU’s engagement with the world

Chair(s): Seda GURKAN (ULB, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Ozlem TERZI (VU, Netherlands)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Emotions and Othering Dynamics in European Climate change and Defense policy

Rosa SANCHEZ SALGADO, Hanna MUHLENHOFF, Andrew TELFORD
University of Amsterdam

 

How emotions travel between EU member states: A social relational perspective

Heidi MAURER1, Marianna LOVATO2
1Donau University-Krems, 2University College Dublin

 

Emotions and Sanctions in EU China and North Korea Policies

Tereza NOVOTNA
Free University Berlin

 

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Unbottled Emotions and the Conditioning of the EU’s Russia Policy

Maxine DAVID1, Larisa DERIGLAZOVA2
1Leiden University, 2Tomsk State University

FRI02-R06
Location: Ockeghem
 

EU – Latin America relations at a time of reshaping multilateralism: challenges and perspectives

Chair(s): Gian Luca GARDINI (Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Discussant(s): Gian Luca GARDINI (Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The validity of interregionalism and quasi-interregionalism as a strategy of the European Union's foreign policy: the case of the relationship with Latin America and Mexico

José Joel PEÑA LLANES
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

 

Fragmentation of production through FTA: Creating value between the European Union, Colombia, and Peru?

María Gabriela RAMOS BARRERA
Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano, Bogotá-Colombia

 

Global Gateway and the Belt and Road Initiative: A geopolitical vision of the relationship with Latin America

Adriana CHAVEZ
Shanghai University

 

The intergovernmental governance structure of UNASUR and its influence on the participation of civil society in the organization: The case of the participation of the Anti-ALCA social movements from 2008-2014. And the lessons of the European Union: The European Citizens Initiative (ECI) as a mechanism for citizen inclusion

Anthony ENRÍQUEZ
FLACSO Ecuador

 

 
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