Conference Agenda

Competition in the Digital Age: Geopolitics, Technology and Implications for Europe

Chair(s): Antonio CALCARA (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)

Discussant(s): Jaša VESELINOVIČ (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Paul TIMMERS (KU Leuven \ University of Oxford)

Presentations of the Symposium

The Paradox of Data Localization: How Europe's Digital Sovereignty Strategy Empowers Non-European Cloud Providers

Mahmoud JAVADI
Vrije Universiteit Brussels

EU-Africa Space Technology Cooperation in the Shadow of Chinese Influence

Thao PHAM
Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Getting Firms on Board: State-Business Relations and Economic Statecraft

Eugenio SANCHEZ
SciencesPo Paris

Public-Private (mis)alignment: A “Personal” Account

Riccardo BOSTICCO
Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Cultural governance and EU external relations: The case of European film

Chair(s): Evangelia PSYCHOGIOPOULOU (University of the Peloponnese; Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy)

Discussant(s): Anna KANDYLA (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy;)

Presentations of the Symposium

Governing Culture through Enlargement: Audiovisual Cooperation in the EU Enlargement Agenda

Apostolos SAMARAS¹, Evangelia PSYCHOGIOPOULOU^2
1Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, ²University of the Peloponnese; Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

EU Film Festivals - Balancing the Ambiguity of Competitiveness and Public Diplomacy

Tuuli LÄHDESMÄKI¹, Kaisa HILTUNEN¹, Mafalda DÂMASO², Melis BEHLIL³, Elif AKÇALI³, Ruken DOĞU ERDEDE^3
1University of Jyväskylä, ²Erasmus University, ³Kadir Has Üniversitesi

International promotion of the European film industry: National institutional practices in an evolving policy and technological architecture

Antonios VLASSIS¹, Eirini ANDRIOPOULOU², Mafalda DÂMASO³, Kaisa HILTUNEN⁴, Jacek MIKUCKI^5
1University of Liège, ²Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, ³Erasmus University, ⁴University of Jyväskylä, ⁵University of Warsaw

The EU’s Audiovisual Trade Policy: Audiovisual cooperation and a global trend towards protectionism

Laia COMERMA¹, Evangelia PSYCHOGIOPOULOU^2
1Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ²University of the Peloponnese; Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

“Between norms and strategy: the EP’s role in EU’s international affairs”

Chair(s): Luciano BRUNO (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Presentations of the Symposium

EU-Africa relations and the European Parliament’s pursuit of parliamentary diplomacy

Ueli STAEGER
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Politicization of the European Parliament´s democracy promotion vis-à-vis Venezuela: The recognitions of Juan Guaidó and Edmundo González

Giuliano BRAGA¹, Paula LAMOSO-GONZÁLEZ², Laura C. FERREIRA-PEREIRA^3
1CICP–University of Minho, Portugal, ²Universidad Loyola, Spain, ³DCP/CICP–University of Minho, Portugal

The European Parliament and Asia: The Case of the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP)

Silja KEVA
Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland

The European Parliament as an international moral actor in the Mediterranean: comparing and contrasting the EP´s reactions to the war in Gaza and the Western Sahara conflict

Meriem NAILI¹, Stelios STAVRIDIS^2
1Université de Grenoble-Alpes, France, ²ARAID/University of Zaragoza, Spain

BEYOND MIRROR MECHANISMS, AVENUES FOR A EU FAIR AND SUSTAINABLE TRADE POLICY TO ADDRESS REGULATORY FRAGMENTATION IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS

Sergi CORBALÁN¹, Matteo Tito MORETTI²

1: Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament; 2: Rud Pedersen Public Affairs, Belgium

Hardening Environmental Instruments towards a ‘Flexilateral’ EU Trade Policy: The Case of Aviation Fuels

Harri KALIMO

Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

Navigating dissensus beyond borders: The case of deforestation-free supply chains

Katharina WEBER

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Domestic discourse coalitions and international package agreements: Bootleggers, Baptists and policymakers in EU-Mercosur negotiations.

Toon VAN OS, Dirk DE BIEVRE, Scott HAMILTON

Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

The EU as a negotiator of international agreements

Chair(s): Marine BARDOU (UCLouvain and F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Marine BARDOU (UCLouvain and F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

A shifting cooperation landscape in the context of the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation

Elke VERHAEGHE
Ghent University

“It’s not you, it’s the norm”: The role of EU – Brazil relations in the EU – Mercosur negotiations

Maria MARTINS
KULeuven

Narrative-based policymaking, after all? Mapping the policy narratives and policy outcomes of the Trade-Development-Migration nexus in the EU

Oskar CHMIEL
CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research

"Tackling Turbulence: Unraveling Sino-European Trade Relations and the Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union"

María Celia MARTÍNEZ DE CASTRO

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic

Fostering Trust Beyond the EU´s Borders in the Era of EU Internal Distrust – A case study of the EU- Mercosur relations.

Benedetta ARRIGHINI

ULB, Belgium (MSCA Phd Student)

The narrative of European food sovereignty: a new (hi)story?

Adalgisa MARTINELLI

ULB, Belgium

Borders and liberal political communities: the EU at the test of time

Michela CECCORULLI¹, Sonia LUCARELLI²

1: University of Bologna; 2: University of Bologna

Reconfiguring Migration Governance: The EU's External Engagement and Informal Coalition Dynamics

Chloé BRIÈRE

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Author meets critics: EU and Russian Hegemony in the “Shared Neighbourhood”

Chair(s): Gergana NOUTCHEVA (Maastricht University)

Discussant(s): Isabell BURMESTER (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

Presentations of the Symposium

EU and Russian Hegemony in the “Shared Neighbourhood”: Between Coercion, Prescription, and Co-optation

Isabell BURMESTER
Sorbonne Nouvelle University

Cultural Ties and Competing Values: EU and Russian Co-optation in Moldova and Armenia

Fabienne BOSSUYT
Ghent University

Evolving Strategies: EU and Russia's Hegemonic Mechanisms in Moldova and Armenia

Tom CASIER
University of Groningen

Imperial Legacies and Modern Hegemony: Comparing EU and Russian Influence

Maxine DAVID
Leiden University

Into the Crossfire: The role of the EU in an Era of Renewed Great Power Competition

Chair(s): Sophie VANHOONACKER (Maastricht University)

Discussant(s): Gustavo Gayger MÜLLER (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies)

Presentations of the Symposium

Shielding Strategy: How Member States Navigate External Influences Resorting to the European Union

Ivan ZACCAGNINI
Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, CSDS

Balancing the Franco-German Duo: The Role of Second-tier Member States and Great Power Patronage in Shaping the European Strategic Autonomy

Domenico FARINELLI
Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, CSDS

The Strategic Role of the Digital Euro: EU's Policy Evolution in the Face of Global Geopolitical Competition

Siyuan QIAO
Maastricht University

An embedded Superpower? An ontological perspective on EU’s interest and geopolitics

Sofia ELIODORI
LUISS Guido Carli University

Decentring EU Foreign Policy: Assessing the Influence of African Union Perspectives on EU Conflict Prevention Strategies

Michele COLLAZZO

University of Bologna, Italy

Investigating the One Thousand and One directions of the EU-Sahel Interregional Partnership

Matteo PECCINI

University of Urbino, Italy

Navigating Power: China and the EU's Divergent Paths in African Military Aid and Arms Exports

Qionghui HUANG

University Gent, Belgium

EU-Africa Relations and the Coloniality of Money: Analysing funding and financing

Anissa BOUGREA¹, Ueli STAEGER²

1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Universiteit van Amsterdam

Liminality and ontological security of the in-between countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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

Discussant(s): Fabienne BOSSUYT (Ghent University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Living in the split - The agency of the shared neighbourhood in-between Russia and the EU

Louise AMORIS
Ghent University

Managing existential anxiety: Armenia's ontological security since the 2020 war

Isabell BURMESTER, Laure DELCOUR
Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle

Navigating liminality in International Relations: The EU's neighbours and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine

Kateryna PISHCHIKOVA¹, Isabell BURMESTER^2
1eCampus University/ISPI, ²Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle

A Geopolitical Parliament?: An evolutionary analysis of the EP’s response to the Commission’s Geopolitical turn.

Lorane VISART DE BOCARMÉ, Ariadna RIPOLL-SERVENT

University of Salzburg, Austria

Statehood Conflict, Recognition, and the Agency of Regional Parliaments: The European Parliament and Kosovo

George KYRIS², Bruno LUCIANO¹

1: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: University of Birmingham, UK

From activities to influence? Mechanisms of European Parliament influence on international agreements

Marine BARDOU^1,2, Tom DELREUX¹

1: UCLouvain; 2: F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium

The Ukraine effect in European security and defence: lessons after three years of war

Chair(s): Yf REYKERS (Maastricht University)

Discussant(s): Yf REYKERS (Maastricht University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Pacifism, Isolationism or Anti-Americanism? Explaining Public Opposition to Supporting Ukraine against Russia’s War of Aggression

Patrick MELLO, Wolfgang WAGNER
VU Amsterdam

European Defence Policy Changes after Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine: a ‘Wake-Up Call’ in Practice?

Michelle HAAS, Tim HAESEBROUCK, Servaas TAGHON, Berk VINDEVOGEL
Ghent University

The EU’s Competing Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Defence Innovation and Industry

Jocelyn MAWDSLEY¹, Bruno Oliveira MARTINS^2
1Newcastle University, ²Peace Research Institute Oslo

NATO’s return to collective defence (2014-2024): an analysis of the politics of allied military planning

Elie PEROT
Brussels School of Governance, VUB

Reflecting the external dimensions of EU’s global green leadership with comparative research

Chair(s): Sebastian OBERTHÜR (Brussels School of Governance (VUB))

Discussant(s): Jan ORBIE (Ghent University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Comparing policy frameworks for the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries

Simon OTTO
Brussels School of Governance (VUB)

Beyond economics: understanding the political opposition to the EU’s autonomous trade- sustainability policies

Caroline BERTRAM
University of Cambridge

Governing environmental practices through EU trade agreements – a comparative assessment of conditions of effectiveness

Simon HAPPERSBERGER
Brussels School of Governance (VUB)

Climate Leadership or Green Protectionism? The External Dimension of the European Green Deal: Examining the case of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Paula ÁLVAREZ VIDAL

College of Europe

ENP in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities

Chair(s): George MASSE (American University of Science and Technology in Beirut)

Discussant(s): Paul ASSAF (American University of Science and Technology in Beirut), Ibrahim JOUHARI (American University of Science and Technology in Beirut)

Presentations of the Symposium

Analyzing the European Neighbourhood Policy's Human Rights Support in Lebanon: A 2015-2023 Assessment

Paul ASSAF¹, Katerina KOCI², Viera OBEID^1
1American University of Science and Technology in Beirut, ²University Of Economics, Prague

Irregular migration from Lebanon to Europe

Ibrahim JOUHARI
American University of Science and Technology in Beirut

The EU as in/external social policy actor

Chair(s): Ine LIETAERT (UNU-CRIS), Karolina KLUCZEWSKA (UNU-CRIS; Academy of International Affairs NRW)

Discussant(s): Karolina KLUCZEWSKA (UNU-CRIS; Academy of International Affairs NRW), Ine LIETAERT (UNU-CRIS)

Presentations of the Symposium

The framing of EU social policy initiatives – what drives the agendas?

Walter LORENZ
Free University of Bolzen-Bolzano

From active learning to a postcolonial frame: the changing role of the EU in Polish family policymaking

Karolina KLUCZEWSKA
UNU-CRIS; Academy of International Affairs NRW

Outsourcing, marketizing and migrant labour: how EU policy addresses the crisis of social reproduction

Elena ZACHARENKO
Tampere University

EU funded youth work on mobility: recreation, regulation or emancipation

Ine LIETAERT, Rossella MARINO
UNU-CRIS

The EU-China Relations in a Changing Global Order

Chair(s): Laia COMERMA (VUB)

Discussant(s): Laia COMERMA (VUB)

Presentations of the Symposium

The European Union and the Governance of Strategic Technologies: Between Geopolitical Competition and Multilateral Cooperation

Thomas CHRISTIANSEN¹, Flavia LUCENTI¹, Sophie VANHOONACKER^2
1LUISS University, ²Maastricht University

Shaping Sustainable Finance? European Engagement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Energy Strategy

Matteo CIANFORLINI
University of Bologna

Understanding The EU’s Securitisation of Critical Raw Materials in the Context of EU-China Relationship

Xinchuchu GAO¹, Xuechen CHEN^2
1University of Lincoln, ²Northeastern University London

A Place in the Sun? the evolving role of the European Parliament in China-EU economic relations

Francesco Giovanni LIZZI
University of Bologna

Beijing Eyes Brussels: Chinese perceptions of the European tilt to the Indo-Pacific

Friso M.S. STEVENS¹, Paul VAN HOOFT^2
1University of Helsinki, ²RAND

Depoliticising EU Migration Policies in Times of Heightened National Politicisation

Chair(s): Agathe PIQUET (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium), Denis DUEZ (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Florian TRAUNER (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sarah WOLFF (Leiden University)

Presentations of the Symposium

From the ‘Hotspot Approach’ to the Pact on Migration and Asylum: Agencification and (De-)Politicisation of the New Border Procedure’

Agathe PIQUET, Denis DUEZ
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum in a Shifting Political Context: Depoliticisation and Repoliticization in EU External Migration Policy

Ariadna RIPOLL SERVENT¹, Marguerite ARNOUX BELLAVITIS^2
1Salzburg Centre for European Union Studies, ²University of Palermo/Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies

Protecting Borders or Protecting Users? Politicization and Depoliticization of the Visa Code reform (2014-2019)

Juliette DUPONT
F.R.S.-FNRS/UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles

Here, Far, Wherever You Are: The EU’s Institutional Communication on Migration Policies

Caterina CARTA¹, Federica ZARDO², Mattia SGUAZZINI^1
1Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ²federica.zardo@donau-uni.ac.at

Trading Green (Panel 2 of 2): Sectoral Applications and Policy Mechanisms in the Evolving EU Environmental Trade Policy

Chair(s): Scott HAMILTON (University of Antwerp)

Discussant(s): Scott HAMILTON (University of Antwerp), Teresa CABRITA (UC Louvain)

Presentations of the Symposium

From Co-Existence to Reinforcement in Trade and Sustainability Nexus: Example of Complementary Jurisdiction for the Multilateral Agreements in EU FTAs

Saide Esra AKDOGAN
Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, The

A political economy approach to new genomic techniques in plant breeding in the European Union

Lodewijk VAN DYCKE
KU Leuven

Regulatory Barriers to Scaling SAFs: Safeguarding EU Technological Leadership and Decarbonization Targets in the Context of an Increasingly Interconnected World

Anna PANARELLA
USI Università della Svizzera italiana

Structural Barriers to a Green Paradigm Shift in EU Trade Policy?: confronting the ‘scale’, ‘growth imperative’ and ‘power’ challenges accompanying contemporary intra-industry trade, intra-firm trade and common ownership trends

Barry FINNEGAN
Queen's university belfast

SECURING EUROPE: INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIC RESPONSES IN DEFENCE POLICY

Chair(s): Fernando MORENO (European Security and Defence College - Doctoral School)

Discussant(s): Fernando MORENO (European Security and Defence College - Doctoral School)

Presentations of the Symposium

European Global Security & Defence Capabilities: Synergies between CSDP and Multilateral Innovation Partnerships

Alexandru FOTESCU
Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces

European folk, investment on future defence and institutional governance

Juan Carlos CASTILLA
Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (ESDC Doctoral School Fellow)

One more expectation capability gap: An analysis of EU defence financing in the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis

Nikolaos NTARZANOS
University of Piraeus (ESDC Doctoral School Fellow)

The European Union’s Crisis Management Discourse: from the Common Security and Defence Policy to strategic crisis management?

Claudia MORSUT¹, Giulia TERCOVICH²

1: University of Stavanger, Norway; 2: VUB, Brussels, Belgium

From a Geopolitical Commission to a Geoeconomic Strategy: The risks of de-risking"

Stefan TURCU

National School of Political Sciences and Administration, Romania

The European Union’s ‘memberness’ in fora of global economic governance: Beyond the membership myth in external representation

Sieglinde GSTÖHL

College of Europe, Belgium

The national security implications of inward foreign direct investment

Nick HOUTTEKIER

Royal Military Academy, Belgium

Geopoliticisation meets politicisation: Party-political cleavages on EU geoeconomic trade instruments

Anna HERRANZ-SURRALLES¹, Odile FELTKAMP²

1: Maastricht University, Netherlands, The; 2: Maastricht University

Bridging emotions and memory politics in European Foreign Policy

Chair(s): Heidi MAURER (Danube University Krems)

Discussant(s): Heidi MAURER (Danube University Krems)

Presentations of the Symposium

How Emotional Memories of Peace and War Shape European Defense Policy

Rosa SANCHEZ SALGADO¹, Dagmar PUNTER^2
1University of Amsterdam, ²Tilburg University

A comparative study of memory and emotion in the EU and NATO enlargement decisions after the war in Ukraine

Özlem TERZI¹, Seda GÜRKAN^2
1Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ²Leiden University

Colonial Shame and Imperial Pride: Memory Frames and Emotional Diplomacy between Europe and Turkey

Matthew GOLDMAN
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

EU Foreign Policy faced with its colonial past: Emotion Regulation and Status in International Relations

Benedetta VOLTOLINI¹, Emmanuelle BLANC^2
1King's College London, ²University of Haifa

European Union external relations towards South America: environmental policies versus trade?

Chair(s): Bruno Theodoro LUCIANO (ULB)

Discussant(s): Gustavo G. MULLER (KU Leuven)

Presentations of the Symposium

Climate policy and climate obstructionism in the stalled EU - Mercosur agreement

Detlef NOLTE¹, Ana Paula TOSTES^2
1GIGA, ²UERJ

European Union-Mercosur: The Gordian knots of an inconclusive negotiation

José Antonio SANAHUJA¹, Jorge Damián RODRÍGUEZ^2
1Complutense University of Madrid, ²University of the Republic, Uruguay

The Implications of EU Strategic Partnerships for Regional Roles: The Case of Brazil

João MOURATO PINTO, Laura C. FERREIRA-PEREIRA
University of Minho

Talking Through Our Differences: EU – Brazil cooperation in climate change negotiations

Maria MARTINS
KU Leuven

The European Union, Chile and Lithium: value-based agreements or simply competing against China?

Arantza GOMEZ ARANA
Northumbria University

The Strained Dialogue on Normalization Between Kosovo and Serbia, and Challenges to Further Their EU Integrations

Nikola MLADENOVIC

Institute for Political Studies, Serbia

The Hobbesian Trap in EU Enlargement

Femke KLAVER

Leiden university, Netherlands, The

Enlargement without Europeanisation? Is the “new” EU enlargement methodology already obsolete?

Lubomira POPOVA

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

The Weak Link’s Power of Annoyance: Hungary in the Euro-Atlantic System of Alliances

Adam BENCE BALAZS

Zentrum für Demokratieforschung, Andrássy Universität Budapest

The EU’s Political Conditionality for Ukraine and Western Balkan Countries – Comparative Analysis

Oleksandr MOSKALENKO

European Humanities University, Ukraine

The EU’s Evolving Management of the Environment-Trade Nexus

Chair(s): Caroline BERTRAM (University of Cambridge)

Discussant(s): Caroline BERTRAM (University of Cambridge)

Presentations of the Symposium

Striking a Balance? How the European Union Manages the Environment-Trade Nexus

Sieglinde GSTÖHL, Simon SCHUNZ
College of Europe, Belgium

The European Union’s Management of the Environment-Trade Nexus at the World Trade Organization and the Impact of the European Green Deal

Ferdi DE VILLE
Ghent University

Implementation of Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in EU Free Trade Agreements: Promoting Environmental Reforms?

Maria GARCIA
University of Bath

The European Union’s Directive on Corporate Sustainable Development Due Diligence: An Institutional Design Effectiveness Analysis

Axel MARX
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven

Beyond Economics: Understanding the Political Contestation of the EU’s Unilateral Trade-Environmental Policies

Caroline BERTRAM
University of Cambridge

"Outsourced empire? Questioning norms and values of EU external relations"

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

Discussant(s): Laura LUCIANI (Ghent University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Targeted sanctions: thinking EU's engagement with Belarus after the 2020 civic protests

Nadège BOELS
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Between a rock and a wet place: Diverging values in discussions about deep-sea mining in Northern Europe

Aslak BUSCH
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Green washing authoritarianism? The case of the lithium deal between EU and Serbia

Vjosa MUSLIU
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Outsourcing 'unwanted' migrants. Mapping out the migration deal between Italy and Albania

Marco ZAMPIERI
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Protean and Control Power and EU’s Actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood

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

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

Presentations of the Symposium

EU’s Protean and Control Power in times of uncertainty: Russia’s war against Ukraine

Assem DANDASHLY, Gergana NOUTCHEVA
Maastricht University

Inauguration of the EU’s Protean Power: Radical Innovation and Improvisation in the EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine since February 2022

Andriy TYUSHKA
College of Europe

Redefining Control and Protean Power: The EU's Security Responses through Missions and the European Peace Facility in Armenia and Moldova

Laure DELCOUR, Isabell BURMESTER
Sorbonne Nouvelle

The Limits of EU Protean Power: Why New Strategies Fall Short in the South Caucasus

Kornely KAKACHIA, Bidzina LEBANIDZE
Georgian Institute of Politics

How Certain the Uncertainty Is? The EU-Ukraine relation and cooperation after the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: the limits of control power and the (re)definition of uncertainty

Anna OSYPCHUK, Anton SUSLOV
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU’s role as a Global Actor I

Chair(s): Kateryna PISHCHIKOVA (ISPI and eCampus)

Presentations of the Symposium

Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union’s Role as a Global Actor

Dimitris BOURIS¹, Nora FISHER ONAR², Daniela HUBER^3
1University of Amsterdam, ²University of San Francisco, ³Roma Tre University

The Return of the Repressed: The Colonial History of the EU’s Geopolitical Turn

Peo HANSEN
Linkoping University

Europe and the Rest’ in Official EU Discourse: Legitimizing ‘Geopolitical Europe’ through the ‘Jungle’ Analogy and Beyond

Munevver CEBECI
Marmara University

Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in times of Dissensus over LGBT equality

Malte BREIDING
Lund University

Queering European Union Security Policy: invisibility, heteronormativity and binaries in the EU’s approach to Women, Peace and Security

Dimitris BOURIS¹, Saul KENNY², Hanna MUEHLENHOFF^1
1University of Amsterdam, ²European Commission

Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a paradigmatic shift

Stephan KEUKELEIRE, Sharon LECOCQ
KU Leuven

Between Rebordering and Fragmentation: Revisiting the External Dimension of the EU Migration Policy

Chair(s): Marie-Laure BASILIEN-GAINCHE (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Institut Universitaire de France, France)

Discussant(s): Thomas SPIJKERBOER (University of Gent)

Presentations of the Symposium

The EU and The (Re)exporting of Borders: Formal and Informal Mode of Externalisation in Migration Matters

Paul James CARDWELL¹, Balkissa DAOUDA DIALLO^2
1King’s College London, ²University of the Witwatersrand

The EU promoting international migration law or pursuing self-interest?

Eleonora FRASCA
Université Catholique de Louvain

Soft Law in Migration Management: The Risks of Fragmentation in EU’s External Action

Salvatore Fabio NICOLOSI
Utrecht University

Hard Borders and Weak Safeguards: Frontex and the Future of EU Externalisation in the Sahel

Mariana GKLIATI¹, Jane KILPATRICK^2
1Tilburg University, Refugee Law Initiative, ²UK National Preventive Mechanism

The EU-Turkey Cooperation in the Field of Migration and Asylum. What is Wrong with it and How to Fix it?

Gamze OVACIK
McGill University

Constructing Sovereignty in Cyberspace: the EU’s approach

Chair(s): Nadia TJAHJA (UNU-CRIS and Brussels School of Governance, Belgium), Jamal SHAHIN (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium)

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

Presentations of the Symposium

Digital Sovereignty in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Mauro SANTANIELLO
Department of Business, Management and Information Systems, University of Salerno

Altercasting and the EU’s role in digital policy

Sophie HOOGENBOOM
United Nations University- CRIS and the Brussels School of Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Towards a more “sovereign” EU in technology standard-setting?

Clément PERARNAUD
Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

The EU’s Strategic Pursuit in Space and Cyberspace: Establishing Sovereignty and Security through Mega-Constellations in NGSO

Berna AKCALI GUR¹, Joanna KULESZA^2
1UNU-CRIS and CCLS, QMUL, ²Lodz University

Fragmentation vs plurality? The EU as an actor in global digital governance

Chair(s): Jamal SHAHIN (VUB - Brussels School of Governance / UNU-CRIS / University of Amsterdam)

Discussant(s): Jamal SHAHIN (VUB - Brussels School of Governance / UNU-CRIS / University of Amsterdam)

Presentations of the Symposium

The future of the Internet: unity or fragmentation?

Clément PERARNAUD
VUB - Brussels School of Governance

Internet from Space. The Impact of LEO Satellite Constellations on the Technopolitical Configuration of the Internet and the role of the EU

Daniel VOELSEN¹, Julia POHLE^2
1German Institute for International and Security Affairs, ²WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Sovereignty and Plurality in the EU's digital development strategy

Orsolya GULYÁS
VUB - Brussels School of Governance

The Digital Fortress Europe and Its Critics: Civil Society Perspectives on EU Border Governance

Douglas Ian BECKER

Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

EU Pharmaceutical Regulation goes global: Pathways of influence, role of EU agencies, and non-European perspectives

Chair(s): Philippe MONGRAIN (University of Antwerp), Herschel NACHLIS (Dartmouth College)

Discussant(s): Philippe MONGRAIN (University of Antwerp)

Presentations of the Symposium

From Brussels to the World: The Diffusion of EU Pharmaceutical Legislation towards Developing Economies

Katrina PEREHUDOFF
University of Amsterdam, Law Centre for Health and Life

Borrowing Regulatory Capacity in Middle-Income Countries during Public Health Crises: Brazil, Regulatory Reliance, and the Politics of COVD-19 Vaccine Regulation

Elize MASSARD DA FONSECA¹, Herschel NACHLIS², Kyle THOMSON³, Holly JARMAN^4
1Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, ²Dartmouth College, ³Columbus School of Law & Verily Life Sciences, ⁴University of Michigan

The Making of Pharmaceutical Business Power in Crisis: State-Led Selection and Vaccine Politics in Argentina

Maria ALEJANDRA COSTA¹, Luana FORLINI^2
1Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, ²State University of Campinas

Contested unilateralism: The Brazilian normative reception of the European Union Deforestation Regulation

Niels SØNDERGAARD

Brasilia University, Brazil

Who are Europe’s Top Diplomats? Towards a Political Sociology of the European External Action Service’s Leadership

Didier GEORGAKAKIS¹, Aoife GRIFFIN², Jacopo GIRAUDO³, Marie KETTERLIN⁴, Simon SCHUNZ⁵

1: College of Europe, Belgium, University Paris1 - Panthéon Sorbonne; 2: College of Europe, Belgium, Maastricht University; 3: College of Europe, Belgium; 4: College of Europe, Belgium; 5: College of Europe, Belgium, KU Leuven

Economic Sanctions and the Geopolitical Commission: Evaluating the Effects of Decentralised Sanctions Enforcement on the EU’s Global Actorness

Nina M HART

King's College London, United Kingdom

Localising the aid: tension between occidental values and promises to third countries

Alexandre PIRON

ISPOLE, UCLouvain

EU Readmission and return: Towards a normative approach

Chair(s): Florian TRAUNER (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Erlend PAASCHE (Institute for Social Research, Oslo), Philipp STUTZ (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Changing norms in EU return policy? An analysis of EU documents over four decades

Paula HOFFMEYER-ZLOTNIK¹, Philipp STUTZ^2
1University of Cologne, ²Vrije Universiteit Brussel

EU return and readmission policies and the international refugee regime: From normative constraint to normative complaisance?

Sandra LAVENEX, Frowin RAUSIS
University of Geneva

‘Do it right, if you must!’ Horn of Africa’s hegemon contest emerging “norms” of return migration

Tefera GEBREGZIABHER¹, Erlend PAASCHE², Wil HOUT^1
1Erasmus University Rotterdam, ²Institute for Social Research, Oslo

When host states oppose to deport: Human rights’ norms and Greek non-deportations to Turkey

Gaia ROMEO, Florian TRAUNER
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Negotiating ‘legitimate’ violence in deportation: A bottom-up relational approach to EU policy norms in practice

Nicole OSTRAND
ARENA Centre for European Studies, Univerity of Oslo

Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU’s role as a Global Actor II

Chair(s): Dimitris BOURIS (University of Amsterdam)

Presentations of the Symposium

EUropean Identity Construction after the Russian Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others

Kateryna PISHCHIKOVA
ISPI and eCampus

Contested Alliances: A Contrapuntal Reading of EU (Global) Gender Agendas

Nora FISHER ONAR¹, David GAZSI², Sarah WOLFF^3
1University of San Francisco, ²King’s College London, ³Leiden University

Geopolitics, (in)security and resilience. A feminist critique of the EU’s engagement in Armenia after the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war

Laura LUCIANI
Ghent University

Aid as pacification. The encroachment of counterterrorism clauses into the aid regime of the European Union in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Mariam PUVOGEL
University of Amsterdam

Towards a Hybrid Model: Social Clauses in EU and US Trade Agreements

Michele MAZZETTI

University of Florence, Department of Legal Sciences, Italy

Principle or Pragmatism? Geoeconomics and Social Standards in Free Trade Agreements between EU and Southeast Asia

Zhihang WU

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Technology transfer: a discussion of value and regionalism. The case of the European Union, Colombia, and Peru RTA

Maria Gabriela RAMOS-BARRERA¹, Jose Wilmar QUINTERO-PEÑA²

1: Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores, Bogota-Colombia; 2: Bocconi University

Greening EU foreign policy? Making sense of the incorporation of climate objectives in the EU’s foreign policy

Niklas BREMBERG¹, Joseph EARSOM², Franziska PETRI³

1: Stockholm University; 2: Catholic University Lille; 3: KU Leuven

Roundtable: Beware, the EU might get what it wished for: the discursive pitfalls of a “mature” and “geopolitical” EU

Chair(s): Heidi MAURER (University for Continuous Education, Austria), Richard WHITMAN (University of Kent)

Discussant(s): Kolja RAUBE (KU Leuven)

Presentations of the Symposium

“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace

Richard WHITMAN
University of Kent

The (not so) unintended consequences of geopolitics, geoeconomics and maturation

Olga BURLYUK
University of Amsterdam

The Union's Westphalian Mirage

Ben TONRA
University College Dublin

(Not) Coming of age? Unpacking the European Union’s quest for strategic autonomy in security and defence

Eva MICHAELS
University of Leiden

The Geoeconomic Turn of the Single European Market

Anna HERRANZ
Maastricht University

Green transition for whom? A critical examination of the EU's critical raw material supply chains and their implications for human rights and environmental justice

Chair(s): Liliana LIZARAZO RODRIGUEZ (vrije universiteit brussel, Belgium)

Discussant(s): Liliana LIZARAZO RODRIGUEZ (vrije universiteit brussel, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Bringing conflict to the table: Critical Raw Materials and Corporate Due diligence for a Just Energy Transition

Marta Paricio MONTESINOS
vrije universiteit brussel, Belgium - BSoG

Between safeguarding supply and promoting sustainable development: which role for the EU in South America’s ‘lithium triangle’?

Wies WILLEMS
NGO Broederlijk Delen (Belgium)

The Ethics of Environmental Upgrading in the aftermath of the European Green Deal

Kevin LE MERLE, Tancrède BOUGLÉ

Ghent University, UNU-CRIS, Belgium

Georgia-EU relation: a multi-scalar and multi-actors analysis of current trends

Chair(s): Gaëlle LE PAVIC (United Nations University - Ghent University, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Georgia's Departure from Europe

Louise AMORIS
Ugent, United Nations University

‘Civil society’ in EU-Georgia relations: different volumes, dissonant voices, harmonious choir?

Aron BUZOGÁNY¹, Laure DELCOUR², Clara WELLER^3
1BOKU, ²Sorbonne Nouvelle, ³Sorbonne Nouvelle and BOKU

Title: Hierarchical relations at various geographical scales, a structuring factor in EU-Georgian cooperation programmes

Ariane BACHELET
IRSEM

Declining the Carrot: Why EU Conditionality Didn’t Stick in Georgia

Serafine DINKEL
Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Warwick and University of Amsterdam

The EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda Reasserted: Navigating Unilateralism, Geopolitization and Legitimacy Concerns

Chair(s): Jan ORBIE (Ghent University)

Discussant(s): Jan ORBIE (Ghent University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Co-Power Europe

Caroline BERTRAM
University of Cambridge

Of Carrots and Sticks in Clubs: How CBAM Influences EU Trade Partners’ Climate Policies

Toon VAN OS, Dirk De Bièvre DE BIÈVRE, Scott HAMILTON
University of Antwerp

Exporting, Protecting or Transforming the European Model? The Transformation of EU Trade and Industrial Policy over the Past Three Decades

Ferdi DE VILLE
Ghent University

EU Trade Policy in Flux: Navigating the Trade-Sustainability-Security Trilemma

Clara WEINHARDT¹, Caroline BERTRAM^2
1Maastricht University, ²University of Cambridge

Structural Shifts in Sino-EU Relations: Cooperation, Divergences, and Future Prospects

Chair(s): Leili SONG (Tongji University, China)

Discussant(s): Uli BRUCKNER (Stanford University.H.G. Will Overseas Studies Center Berlin), Tian GAO (Ghent University, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Complements or Competitors? Global Gateway vs. BRI from a Strategic Perspective

Jieqiong DUAN
Ghent University, Belgium

Decoupling, De-risking, and Reconnecting China? Epistemic Communities, Knowledge Production, and Reframing of EU Foreign Policy

Huanyu ZHAO
Ghent University, Belgium

Open Strategic Autonomy and Its Impact on EU-China Trade: A Case Study of the EU Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles

Chen CHANG
Tongji University, China; Ghent University, Belgium

The European Peace Facility’s serendipitous success: Geopolitics, partnerships, defence

Chair(s): Toni HAASTRUP (University of Manchester), Ueli STAEGER (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Discussant(s): Marijn HOIJTINK (Universiteit Antwerpen)

Presentations of the Symposium

The transformation of the EPF during the Russian geopolitical crisis in Eastern Europe

Dionis CENUȘA
Eastern Europe Studies Centre (Lithuania)

The EPF: the changing locus of justification to EU’s implication in military capacity-building, from security assistance to militarization at home

Catherine HOEFFLER
Université de Genève

The European Peace Facility and African Agency: How the EU’s changing foreign policy doctrine affects African security

Ueli STAEGER¹, Toni HAASTRUP^2
1Universiteit van Amsterdam, ²University of Manchester

Aiming high or settling for “good enough”? The challenges and opportunities of reforming the decision-making in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

Grzegorz Adam KRZYŻANOWSKI

European Parliament, Belgium

EU Actorness in Global AI Governance: Examining its Influence and Impact in the Council of Europe’s AI Framework Convention

Sina HOCH

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

The digitalisation of European diplomacy: chacun pour soi or collaborative integration in the use of AI?

Federica BICCHI¹, Heidi MAURER²

1: London School of Economic and Political Science, UK; 2: University for Continuous Education, Austria

The EU as a Global Space Actor in Times of Increasing Contestation and International Competence

Lucas J. RUIZ DÍAZ

Universidad de Granada, Spain

Transgovernmental Gateways: The Role of EU Agencies and Networks in shaping EU external governance

Chair(s): Ellen VOS (University of Maastrich)

Discussant(s): Ellen VOS (University of Maastrich)

Presentations of the Symposium

Patterns of openness in European Administrative Networks: the case of non-EU countries

Edoardo GUASCHINO, Sandra LAVENEX, Elisa NANCHEN, Matis POUSSARDIN
University of Geneva

Engagement of EU Agencies with Candidate Countries – Laying the Ground for Future EU Membership

Marko MILENKOVIC
European University Institute

The international behavior of EU regulatory agencies: cooperation with candidate countries

Matis POUSSARDIN
University of Geneva

Improving Consistency and Coordination in EU Agencies’ External Relations

Florin COMAN KUND
Erasmus University Rotterdam

European Security and Defence in Times of War: Responding to Traditional and Emerging Threats

Chair(s): Daniel FIOTT (VUB)

Presentations of the Symposium

The EU and Collective Defence: A Law-in-Context Analysis of Article 42.7 TEU in Light of the War in Ukraine

Federica FAZIO
Dublin City University

The EU fighting terrorist recruiting in gaming environments

Ricardo PEREIRA
Dublin City University

Information War, Digital Lawfare and Safeguards to Protect Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law

Berin SZÓKA
Dublin City University & TechFreedom

The Transformation of the EU Defence Industrial Base after the War in Ukraine

Davide GENINI
Dublin City University

Externalisation of migration management In Europe: Mapping actor coalitions and policy frames

Sofie ROEHRIG, Ozlem ATIKCAN, Tim HENRICHSEN

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Turning a blind eye: The EU, migration policy and Tunisia’s re-autocratisation under President Kais Saied

Ragnar WEILANDT

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Migration diplomacy in times of crisis: how violent conflict dynamics shape migration governance between the EU, Ukraine, and Moldova

Isabel HOFFMANN

Osnabrück University, Germany

A new model for the EU? The Italian Cooperation with Albania on migration: between Externalization and the “Internalization” of Borders

Michela CECCORULLI

University of Bologna, Italy

The EU’s Framing Power : Shaping Policy Debates and (In-) Visibilising Actors in the Neighbourhood?

Laure DELCOUR¹, Aron BUZOGANY², Nathalie FERRE¹, Clara WELLER^1,2

1: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France; 2: BOKU, Austria

A Changing Geopolitical Context: A Window of Opportunity for EU Enlargement?

Magdalena FRENNHOFF LARSÉN

University of Westminster, United Kingdom

Theorizing European Union Enlargement: An In-Depth Literature Review

Iveri KEKENADZE GUSTAFSSON

Lund University, Sweden

Mapping Multilevel Dissensus on EU Enlargement Policy: Perspectives from the EU, Georgia, and Serbia

Serafine DINKEL

Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Warwick & University of Amsterdam

Advocacy and Epistemic Communities in the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation. The Role of Expertise

Valentina GRUARIN

University of Catania (Sicily), Italy

Europeanization as a subject of political and media polarization in Georgia

Lia TSULADZE^1,2, Nino ABZIANIDZE^1,3

1: Center for Social Sciences; 2: Tbilisi State University, Georgia; 3: Georigan Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA)

Navigating Weaponized History in Moldova: The EU and Russia's Clashing Strategies

Coralie BALLIEU¹, Aoife GRIFFIN^1,2

1: College of Europe; 2: Maastricht University

Civil society as a battleground? A multi-scalar perspective on the 2024 mass mobilisation against the Georgian ‘Foreign Agents Law’

Laura LUCIANI¹, Calra WELLER²

1: Ghent University & VUB; 2: Sorbonne Nouvelle University & BOKU, Vienna

The EU’s Geo-Economic Turn: Implications for EU Policy-making

Chair(s): Clara WEINHARDT (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

Discussant(s): Thomas CONZELMANN (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

Presentations of the Symposium

Varieties of Geoeconomics in the Age of Economic Security

Sarah BAUERLE DANZMAN¹, Sophie MEUNIER^2
1Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, ²Princeton University, Princeton USA

The European Commission’s Geoeconomic Expert Groups: Crafting New Spaces for Geoeconomic Policymaking

Jaša VESELINOVIČ¹, Sjorre COUVREUR^2
1Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ²UNU-CRIS

Horizontal coordination and locus of power in the geopolitical European Commission

Igor SARKISSIAN
Maastricht University, The Netherlands

European Union support for the World Trade Organization in an age of geopolitics

Michal PARIZEK¹, Clara WEINHARDT^2
1Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Investors, Sustainable Finance, and Global Value Chains

Chair(s): Sven VAN KERCKHOVEN (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Discussant(s): Sven VAN KERCKHOVEN (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations of the Symposium

Green Bonds or Green Chains? Assessing Financial Subordination in the Green Finance Transition

Max NAGEL
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Responsibility of Financial and Banking Sector Actors under Value Chain Due Diligence Norms According to OECD NCP Case Law

Joao TEIXIERA DE FREITAS
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The EU and Central Asia’s Critical Raw Materials: mining companies, their Social License to Operate, and international law

Alberto PECORARO
Maqsut Narikbayev University, Astana (Kazakhstan)

Responsible finance for a just green transition: challenges, practices and drivers of cascading human rights due diligence into investment chains

Karin BUHMANN
Copenhagen Business School

The Multiple Roles of Investors in Transnational Ecological Conflicts and Litigation

Liliana LIZARAZO RODRIGUEZ, Joao TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Shaping International Order? Opportunities and challenges to the EU’s global influence

Chair(s): Alister MISKIMMON (Queen's University Belfast)

Presentations of the Symposium

Shaping a new order? The EU’s strategic narrative of change and continuity in international order

Ben O'LOUGHLIN
Royal Holloway University London

Secular Power Europe vs. the Religious Middle East and North Africa? Narrating EU’s identity in a Multiplex World Order

Sarah WOLFF
Leiden University

Narratives of EU trade and development policies and how coloniality has shaped EU integration theories

Valentina BROGNA¹, Jan ORBIE^2
1Université Saint-Louis, ²Ghent University

Exporting the “European third way”: the EU narrative of a value-based digital order and its global impact

Julia POHLE, Christian RAUH, Leo THUER, Milan SCHRODER
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

The EU: Searching for a New Strategic Narrative

Andrew COTTEY
University College Cork

The EU’s ambitions in the geopolitics of technology

Chair(s): Antonio CALCARA (Brussels School of Governance, VUB)

Discussant(s): Antonio CALCARA (Brussels School of Governance, VUB)

Presentations of the Symposium

The Grand Illusion: The EU’s High-Tech Spectacle in Security and Defence

Raluca CSERNATONI
Brussels School of Governance, VUB

The emergence of a transatlantic technology ecosystem: a new driver in EU-NATO relations

Chantal LAVALLÉE
Royal Military College Saint-Jean

Emergence of a European digital territoriality: from supply chain security to the promotion of a European model on digital technologies

Clotilde BÔMONT
Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM)

Embracing Techcraft? An Assessment of Secondary Implications of the European shift towards Software-Defined Defence

Simona R. SOARE
Lancaster University

The EU’s Policy in the South Caucasus: Balancing Normative Values and Geopolitical Interests

Sossi TATIKYAN

Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France

How Russia’s war in Ukraine shifted protean power in EU-Russian relations

Tom CASIER

University of Groningen

The European Union’s role in the production of space along and within the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian ‘administrative boundary lines’

Gaëlle LE PAVIC¹, Sofia GAVRILOVA²

1: United Nations University - Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography

Mater dolorosa Europe: EU’s memory politics in Bucha, Ukraine

Adrià RIVERA ESCARTIN

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Global perspective of how to contain or resolve the conflict in Ukraine after the third anniversary of the Russian invasion

Aribel CONTRERAS SUAREZ

UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, Mexico

EU Enlargement Policy to the Western Balkans in the Context of Ensuring Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) Supply Chain Resilience

Kristina Nikolic NIKOLIC

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), Serbia

Africa’s Critical Materials: Geopolitical Dynamics and Strategic Implications for the European Union

Emidio DIODATO¹, Gabriele CASELLA², Silvia ORIOLI¹, Diana SHENDRIKOVA²

1: University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Hydrogen-fuelled Geopolitics? The Securitization of Energy Cooperation between the EU and Southern Africa

Johannes MUNTSCHICK

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Mapping EU member state preferences on European strategic autonomy: a three dimensional framework

Salih Işık BORA¹, Julia RONE², Viktor SKYRMAN³

1: CSDS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

The Sources of a Changing European Security Architecture: the Symbolising, Hedging, Offsetting and Bridging Functions of New Security Guarantees in Europe

Elie PEROT

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

The EU’s fragmented defence governance: Different rationales, different logics

Niklas HELWIG¹, Tuomas ISO-MARKKU²

1: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland; 2: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland

Reshaping (Dis)Unity: How Internal Dissent Fuels the European Union’s Global Engagement

Benedetta MORARI

The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

China's influence over the policy design of the EU's new trade defence instruments

Laia COMERMA

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

De-Europeanisation or business as usual?: The effects of Chinese ideational power on Germany and European solidarity

Jacob HICKEY

Northumbria University, Netherlands, The

“Among the Giants: the European Union and its Indo-Pacific Cooperation Strategy against China and the United States in a Geopolitically Fragmented World”

Adriana Paola CHAVEZ BANO

Shanghai University, China, People's Republic of

The weakness of the EU soft power strategy

Kristian L. NIELSEN¹, Dzenita SILJAK²

1: Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Hungary; 2: International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Thinking Out Loud: Exploring Best Practices in Soft Power. A Comparative Analysis between the UK and Other Nations

Jessica Kumari GOSLING

UCL

Narrative Empire: The EU’s Discursive Hegemony and Its Imperial Power Beyond Borders

Sara CANALI

UNU-CRIS, Belgium

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a filter and amplifier of the soft power of Russia, China and the EU in Kazakhstan

John IRGENGIORO¹, Fabienne BOSSUYT¹, Natalia CHABAN²

1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: University of Canterbury, New Zealand

The role of regions and cities in relations between the EU and US.

Tomasz KAMIŃSKI, Joanna CIESIELSKA-KLIKOWSKA

University of Lodz, Poland

EU missions of election observation and their impact on democracy

Régis DANDOY

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Why Does the European Parliament Promote Human Rights? Emotional Dynamics in Plenary Debates on Turkey and Hungary (2014-2019)

Seda GURKAN

Leiden University

Populist groups in the European Parliament and Venezuela: navigating political and democratic turmoil in the first quarter of the 21st century

Laura GIL-BESADA^1,2

1: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

The (gendered) dehumanisation of Palestinians by European Commission President von der Leyen: A decolonial feminist discourse analysis

Alvaro OLEART¹, Juan ROCH², Lucrecia RUBIO³

1: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: Universidad Nacional de Educación (UNED); 3: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

The Global Gateway and the EU’s Evolving Discourse on Development

Maurizio CARBONE

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Global Gateway as the future or as the end of the EU's development policy? Emerging evidence from the EU-Africa Green Energy Initiative

Niels KEIJZER, Svea KOCH

German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

EU donors in a fragmented aid system: The path to specialisation and division of labour

Malgorzata ZAJACZKOWSKI¹, Mateusz SMOLAGA²

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

Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization

Anissa BOUGREA, Mattias VERMEIREN

Ghent University, Belgium

Regional organizations and climate security: communities of practice in EU, NATO and OSCE

Niklas BREMBERG

Stockholm University, Sweden

The EU’s role towards other regional organisations in their fight against terrorism

Céline, Claude COCQ

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique

The European Union’s Inter-Regional Strategy Making: A Co-Direction Approach to Engaging with Latin America

Gustavo MÜLLER, Maria MARTINS

KU Leuven

The EU-LAC agenda: (un)balancing between reality and normativity

Carmen FONSECA

NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

The European Union as a Maritime Security Actor in the Indo-Pacific: From ambition to reality?

Calle HÅKANSSON, Malin KARLSSON

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

Shifting Leadership in Brussels: Implications for EU Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific

Tereza NOVOTNA

Free University Berlin, Germany

The EU’s Engagement with the Indo-Pacific: Examining the EU’s Unique Actorness in the Region

Mahima Nitankumar DUGGAL

German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Germany

Crafting a Geopolitical EU Strategy for the Korean Peninsula

Sophia BRACHTENDORF

Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Partners for the climate? How EU Delegations and CSOs interact in climate diplomacy

Franziska PETRI¹, Francesca COLLI²

1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: Maastricht University, Netherlands

How Green is the European Neighbourhood Policy? The Case Study of Climate Change

Narine GHAZARYAN

Radboud University, Netherlands, The

The European Union’s Global Climate Leadership in a Turbulent World: Between Ambition and Achievement

Charles PARKER¹, Karin BÄCKSTRAND²

1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Stockholm University, Sweden

Outer dimensions of EU policy coherence: Assessing LULUCF policy interactions and leakage effects of EU with Brazil and Indonesia

Heiner Johannes VON LUEPKE¹, Claudia AZEVEDO-RAMOS², Paulo MOUTINHO³, Dwi LARASWATI⁴, Ahmad MARYUDI⁴, Richard FISCHER¹

1: Thuenen institute, Germany; 2: Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil; 3: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, IPAM, Brazil; 4: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia