Oriol Costa is an Associate professor of International Relations at the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and a senior research associate at IBEI (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals). He is also a member of the Observatory of Euroean Foreign Policy, a stable, IBEI-based research group devoted to the understanding of EU foreign policy. At the UAB he co-ordinates the BA degree in International Relations.

Selected publications (10)

Costa, O. (2019), “The politicization of EU external relations”, Journal of European public policy, 26(5), 790-802.             

Costa, O. and Müller, P. (2018),              “Une Liaison Transnationale. Exploring the Role of NGOs in EU Foreign Policy-making on the ICC”, Comparative European Politics, DOI: 10.1057/s41295-018-0121-6.

Costa, O. (2017), “Assessing influence between International Organizations”, R. Biermann and J.A. Koops (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Inter-organizational Relations in World Politics. Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 389-405.

Barbé, E; Costa, O and Kissack, R. (2016), The EU policy responses to a shifting multilateral system. Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Costa, O. (2013), “A force for and because of multilateralism. When is the EU a multilateralist actor in world society?”, Journal of European Public Policy , 20(8), 1213-28.

Costa, O. (2012), “When multilateralism hits Brussels. Preliminary results on the influence of international institutions on the EU”, K.E. Jørgensen and K.V. Laatikainen (eds), Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions. Performance, Policy, Power, London: Routledge, 416-428.

Costa, O and Jørgensen, K.E. (2012), The Influence of International Institutions on the EU. When Multilateralism Hits Brussels, Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Costa, O. (2010), “Convergence on the fringe: The environmental dimension of Euro-Mediterranean co-operation”, Mediterranean Politics, 15(2), 149-168.

Barbé, E.; Costa, O.; Herranz-Surrallés, A.; Natorski, M. (2009), “Which rules shape the EU's external governance? Patterns of rule selection in foreign and security policies”, Journal of European Public Policy, 16(6), 834-882.

Costa, O. (2009), “The Unexpected EU Leadership on Landmines. The influence of the Ottawa Convention on the EU”, European Security, 18(3), 245-261.