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Welcome to COST Action ENTER

Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt
Chair and Vice-Leader WG2 (Perception and Communication)
Dr. Patrick Müller
Co-Chair and Vice-Leader WG4 (Relations)

EU foreign policy experiences unprecedented turbulences that put key achievements of the European integration project at risk. Externally, the EU’s global environment is characterized by the reconfiguration of power, growing divisions, and the contestation of established liberal order. Simultaneously, the EU’s neighbourhood is increasingly conflict-prone and unstable, triggering migration flows and the proliferation of illiberal values. Domestically, the EU faces severe internal conflicts, marked by austerity, Brexit, growing nationalism, populism and new protectionism. COST Action ENTER aims to improve our understanding of central properties of EU foreign policy in light of these new realities, focusing on perceptions, communication, contestation. In today’s world, the success of EU foreign policy depends on the EU’s ability to instantaneously respond to stimuli and pressures originating from both the international and the intra-EU levels. Linking internal and external policy dynamics, the Action has a strong potential for breakthrough scientific developments. A central objective of the action is to derive theoretically informed, policy-relevant advice for the EU’s strategic approach to its international relations, its communication, and for dealing with the interaction between internal and external challenges. It will generate a step change in how the new realities of EU foreign policy are theorized and addressed. This will be achieved by establishing multi-national, multidisciplinary collaborations at the nexus of policy fields and research communities that have not sufficiently communicated in the past. Substantive efforts to bridge between the academic-practitioner divide are made, to synthesize knowledge, facilitate shared understandings, and inform EU foreign policy. Photo credits: Banner – Claus Völker

Seventh COST Action ENTER Policy Brief published: The EU’s Commitment to and Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect. The Way Forward

02/02/2021

The EU is a staunch supporter of the principle of the “Responsibility…

CfP: Section at ECPR General Conference 2021 on “The Contestation of EU Foreign Policy” – Deadline: 4 February 2021

12/01/2021

The ECPR General Conference 2021 Section on “The Contestation…

COST Action ENTER sends out best wishes for 2021

01/01/2021

COST Action ENTER chair Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt and co-chair…

EU External Energy Policy – Hydrogen Governance in the EU. Between internal business cycles and international value-added chains

March 15 @ 10:00 am - March 17 @ 1:00 pm CET virtual

Editors’ introduction to the Special Issue Changing realities, changing narratives? A narrative reading of EU perceptions in a changing Europe by Pauline Heinrichs, Natalia Chaban, Jan Osička, and Veronika Zapletalová15/02/2021 - 4:00 pm
Studies of perceptions of the EU in post-Maidan Ukraine and post-Brexit Europe inevitably turn to the theme of a ‘changing Europe in a changing world’. Our Special Issue makes a timely contribution to the question of how perception studies – as an approach to studying the EU – can help us understand narratives of change […]
Changing realities, changing narratives? A narrative reading of EU perceptions in a changing Europe by Pauline Heinrichs15/02/2021 - 3:54 pm
What kind of Europe the EU seeks to be, how it perceives itself and how it seeks to enact this Europe is a highly contentious issue and has powerful political stakes attached to its construction and realisation. This paper is specifically interested in how crises can constitute a compounded and expanded space for agency of […]
On its path to become ‘North European’: political climate change narrative in Latvia by Vineta Kleinberga15/02/2021 - 3:49 pm
The European Green Deal is the European Union’s latest expression of its ambition to become a world leader in addressing climate change. This study seeks to examine how Latvia – an EU member state – deals with the change brought about by a changing climate and the EU’s response to it. Informed by a strategic […]
Framing the EU and the Green Deal in Estonia: A reluctant balancing act by Maili Vilson15/02/2021 - 3:44 pm
As the new government incorporating the populist EKRE party took office in Estonia in spring 2019, concerns emerged about Estonia’s long-standing policy outlook of strong Euro-Atlantic integration. Other coalition members had to balance EKRE’s policy positions, which manifested in contradictory statements and vague decisions. Analysing the Estonian government’s rhetoric about the EU, this paper reveals […]
Europe in local news by Muriel C. Pluschke15/02/2021 - 3:39 pm
Local newspapers are rarely in the focus of research on the European public sphere. However, due to their various democratic functions, they should not be neglected and may help to build a European public sphere. This article presents the results of an in-depth study of local newspapers by asking: a) How and to what extent […]
The EU and national sovereignty: the encounter of two concepts of sovereignty. Change or continuity? by Aistė Deimantaitė15/02/2021 - 3:33 pm
The article aims to examine and critically evaluate the idea of sovereignty and the nuances of its verbal expression through the concept of strategic narratives, to reveal different models of sovereignty within the context of European Union Member States (mainly France, Hungary/Poland) and the European Union (EU) since 2017. The article seeks to answer the […]

Welcome to COST Action ENTER

Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt
Chair and Vice-Leader WG2 (Perception and Communication)
Dr. Patrick Müller
Co-Chair and Vice-Leader WG4 (Relations)

Upcoming Spring School: EU External Energy Policy – Hydrogen Governance in the EU

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CfP: Special issue on Europe’s foreign and energy policy

Seventh COST Action ENTER Policy Brief published: The EU’s Commitment to and Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect. The Way Forward

CfP: Section at ECPR General Conference 2021 on “The Contestation of EU Foreign Policy” – Deadline: 4 February 2021

COST Action ENTER sends out best wishes for 2021

EU External Energy Policy – Hydrogen Governance in the EU. Between internal business cycles and international value-added chains

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