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

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 GRGIC^2
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 CORNELIS^2
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

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 HAPPERSBERGER^2,3, Nidhi NAGABHATLA³, Glenn RAYP^1,3, 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

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

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

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 LOZKA^2
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

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-VACAFLOR^2
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)

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-SURRALLES^2
1DG Energy, ²Maastricht University

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

Francesca BATZELLA
University of Hertfordshire

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

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

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 SMOLENSKI^2
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

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

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

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

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)

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 SCHAPENDONK^2
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

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 LAZARENKO^2
1Oxford University, ²Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space

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 TOPCUOGLU^2
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)

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

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

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

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 FAIGEN^4
1University of Warwick, ²Warwick Business School, ³Durham University, ⁴University of Vienna

Global Energy Scenarios: A geopolitical Reality Check

Mathieu BLONDEEL¹, James PRICE^2
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

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

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

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

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

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 BOSSUYT^1
1Ugent, ²University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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

Natalia CHABAN¹, Ole ELGSTRÖM^2
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 DANDASHLY^2
1University of Amsterdam, ²University of Maastricht

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 SUS^2
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

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

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 BREMBERG^2
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

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 JUNCOS^2
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

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

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 WOLCZUK^2
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 EKENGREN^3
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 STRYCHARZ^2
1University of Edinburgh, ²Cracow University of Economics

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 RAUBE^2
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 MAURER^2
1University College Dublin, ²Danube University Krems

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

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

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 RYBNIKAROVA^1
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

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

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

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

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 BANDYOPADHYAY^2
1IMT Ghaziabad, ²Indian Institute of Management

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

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

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

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

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 LUTZ^3
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 HELBLING^3
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

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 KALIMO^2
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 HAPPERSBERGER^2
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

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 MARTINO^2
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

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 LANDORFF^2
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 ROMANYSHYN^1,2, 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)

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

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

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 VANSINA^1,2

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

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 NOUTCHEVA^2
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

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

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 LOVATO^2
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 DERIGLAZOVA^2
1Leiden University, ²Tomsk State University

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