The ECPR General Conference 2021 Section on “The Contestation of EU Foreign Policy”, led by Franziska Petri (KU Leuven), Elodie Thevenin (Jagiellonian University), and Michèle Knodt (Technical University Darmstadt), endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on European Union and organized through the COST Action Enter ‘EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities’, is issuing a call […]
COST Action ENTER chair Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt and co-chair Prof. Dr. Patrick Müller would like to thank everyone contributing to the Action’s activities in 2020 for their input, effort and endurance during a complicated year. And they send out best wishes, wishing a healthy, troublefree and succesful year 2021.
European Union’s actorness in the Eastern neighbourhood encountered mixed results. After ten years of the Eastern Partnership, its partners have faced not only external aggression, but also armed conflicts among themselves and internal instability. Within this context, the author argues for a reassessment of the reliability of the current format of the Eastern Partnership. The […]
COST Action ENTER, Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration e.V. and Schader-Stiftung invite on 19.11.2020 at 19.00 to a panel discussion on “The future role of the internal market for the intensification of European integration”. Speakers will be: Sven Giegold, MEP Dr. Luigi Malferrari, Saarland University Dr. Linn Selle, European Movement Germany Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels, University of […]
COST Action ENTER is strongly interested in reaching out beyond academia. Members of all working groups have had several face-to-face meetings with practitioners. Here are some examples: Member of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, 18.9.2019 The United Nations Environment Programme, 13.11.2019 German Federal Foreign Office, 13.11.2019 Member of the European Committee of […]
COST Action ENTER Policy Brief series invites policy brief proposals for the November/December 2020 issue. We welcome policy briefs that analyze and recommend policy options for EU foreign policy including, but not limited to, the following issues: – EU foreign policy at times of COVID-19 – EU rule of law promotion abroad – EU foreign […]
Moving from Spain to Belgium in the middle of a pandemic to carry out my STSM stay at KU Leuven was not difficult at all. Although there is no common European framework when it comes to COVID-19 travel criteria, which shows how the Schengen crisis of 2015 is still affecting the EU and its citizens, […]
Our fifth Policy Brief is published. This is the first practitioner’s view. “Cultural diplomacy between the European Union and Turkey” by Ivanka Vasilevska EU-Turkish relations continue to be strained by geopolitical and cultural differences, as is evident by the dispute over the Eastern Mediterranean, the freeze in accession negotiations, and most recently the change of […]
WG 2 Leader Jan Osička together with Kacper Szulecki hosted the section “Energy Politics in Europe and Beyond” at this year’s ECPR General Conference from 24-28 August 2020. The section dealt with emerging issues in energy governance in Europe and beyond. It discussed the burning socio-political questions surrounding the ongoing energy transition such as public […]
WG 2 “Perceptions and Communication” have organised and run two COST E-Workshops – two international symposia that examined perceptions, images and narratives of the EU inside the EU among its member states and outside the EU, specifically among EU neighbours to the east and south. Both Symposia, organised and chaired by WG 2 Vice-Leader Professor […]
The Liberal International Theory Tradition in Europe, edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen11/01/2021 - 3:43 pmThis book examines how the liberal international theory tradition evolved in Europe. It includes nine chapters focusing on both historical and contemporary branches of liberal IR theorizing. The combined portrait of the prominent IR theory orientation shows a long and rich theoretical tradition but also a tradition that the scholarly community rarely fully recognize. It […]
Loyal at once? The EU’s global health awakening in the Covid-19 pandemic by Louise van Schaik, Knud Erik Jørgensen and Remco van de Pas31/12/2020 - 2:38 pmThe Covid-19 pandemic marks a shift in the EU’s approach to the multilateral system. Just at a time when the EU aspires to avoid being crushed between the US and China, the World Health Organization (WHO) became one of the new battlegrounds in world politics. This norm-setting international organization for health was already under pressure […]
Conceptual analytical avenues known and unknown by Knud Erik Jørgensen18/12/2020 - 2:50 pmConceptual history in the European space, edited by Willibald Steinmetz, Michael Freeden, and Javier Fernández-Sebastián, New York, Berghahn Books, 2017, 311 pp., $149.00/£110.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78533-482-5In search of European liberalisms: concepts, languages, ideologies, edited by Michael Freeden, Javier Fernández-Sebastián, and Jörn Leonhard, New York, Berghahn Books, 2019, 346 pp., $135.00/£99.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78920-280-9 Knud Erik […]
COST Action ENTER Policy Brief No. 6: December 2020 – Time to Reassess the Reliability of the Eastern Partnership: The Need for Segmentation and Micro-Regional Strategies09/12/2020 - 10:06 amCOST Action ENTER BRIEF NO. 6 / December 2020 – Time to Reassess the Reliability of the Eastern Partnership: The Need for Segmentation and Micro-Regional Strategies by Mădălin Blidaru This policy brief assesses the achievements of Eastern Partnership and recommends that the EU to adopt a strategy tailored to address Eastern Partnership countries within micro-regional […]
The EEAS navigating foreign policy paradigms by Knud Erik Jørgensen, Jonas Gejl Kaas, Tonny Brems Knudsen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen and Laura Landorff27/11/2020 - 3:07 pmAddressing the issue of EU foreign policy, this article analyses one of the European institutions, the EEAS, and examines how the EEAS navigates in a European landscape characterised by a handful of main foreign policy paradigms. In particular, we ask how the EEAS has adjusted its foreign policies in the light of competing paradigms. In […]
A Perceptual Approach to EU Public Diplomacy: Investigating Collaborative Diplomacy in EU-Ukraine Relations by Natalia Chaban and Ole Elgström23/10/2020 - 3:22 pmThis article contributes to the theorisation of collaborative public diplomacy by introducing a perceptual approach. Engaging with the collaborative diplomacy paradigm developed to conceptualise public diplomacy in the context of non-traditional security threats and conflicts, as well as nation building, the article explores and compares perceptions of the European Union (EU) as a public diplomacy […]
