Our third Policy Brief is published. “Contestation of EU Foreign Policy: When in Doubt, Do Politics” by Oriol Costa This policy brief assesses the sources of contestation of EU foreign policy and recommends to the EU to avoid the erosion of expert culture of Council working groups, but to embrace contestation when contestation is significant […]
Due to the current corona pandemie situation there will be deviations in the implementation of the program of COST Action ENTER with immediate effect. Nevertheless, we are available for all of you, please use email contact possibilites first, as TU Darmstadt is more or less shut down. Please use this link for comprehensive information on […]
Marianna Lovato of the University College Dublin sent us these impressions from her STSM: I arrived in Brussels in the evening of Sunday March 8th to start my two-week Short Term Scientific Mission. The following day, I was warmly welcomed by Dr Tom Casier at the Brussels School of International Studies (University of Kent). I was […]
I attended the International Conference on International Security Studies in February 2020 with my supervisor, Dr Constantinos Adamides. In presenting our research and preliminary findings, we were able to interact with other scholars and researchers in an interdisciplinary fashion. As the overarching theme focused on international security, we were equally receptive of other views within […]
Elodie Thevenin was hosted for her Short-Term Scientific Mission by the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. Her main objective was to develop her research project focusing on the politicisation and contestation of EU external migration policy in national parliaments, therefore looking for contributing to Working Group 3. Her research stay […]
Yesterday our Public Panel on “EU Foreign Policy in Times of Populism” was held in the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. We are proud that we had renown speakers: Gerda Falkner (Professor at University of Vienna): Right Wing Populist Parties in the EU and their positions on Foreign Policy Ivan Krastev (Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human […]
Today is the final day of COST Action ENTER Vienna events. Work in the workshop “De-Europeanization and the EU’s International Relations” continues. The workshop is organized by our Working group 3 – Contestation. The workshop engages with the emerging debate on de-Europeanization of EU foreign policy, both at the conceptual and empirical level.
There is a lot of discussions and working going on in Vienna in the framework of COST Action ENTER right now. Working group 3 “Contestation” just finished their workshop “Contestation and politication of EU foreign policy: New realities or same old?”. The workshop addressed the need for conceptualization and at the same time looked at […]
The Working Group 1 workshop continued with the public event at the International Institute for Peace in Vienna. Angela Kane, Ramses A. Wessel, Clara Portela and Heinz Gartner discussed the nuclear non-proliferation and the challenges for the EU at the roundtable chaired by Marylia Hushcha.
COST Action ENTER Working Group 1 (New Realities)-Workshop “Contemporary Challenges in the Field of Non-Proliferation Arms Control Policy and EU Responses” has started. The event is being hosted by the International Institute for Peace in Vienna. After a fruitful session at the workshop participants enjoy their coffee break at the historical building of International Institute […]
COST Action ENTER Policy Brief No. 3: April 202031/03/2020 - 2:43 pmCOST Action ENTER BRIEF NO.3/ April 2020 – Contestation of EU Foreign Policy: When in Doubt, Do Politics by Oriol Costa This policy brief assesses the sources of contestation of EU foreign policy and recommends to the EU to avoid the erosion of expert culture of Council working groups, but to embrace contestation when contestation […]
COST Action ENTER Policy Brief No. 2: February 202025/02/2020 - 11:42 amCOST Action ENTER BRIEF NO.2/ February 2020 – The EU’s Peacebuilding: Past, Present, Future by Münevver Cebeci This policy brief addresses the challenges for the EU in its peacebuilding efforts. Contrary to analyses that blame the EU’s non-unitary nature and young foreign policy, the author argues the EU’s ineffectiveness in peacebuilding is due to its […]
What’s next for the European coal heartland?14/11/2019 - 1:20 pmWhat’s next for the European coal heartland? Exploring the future of coal as presented in German, Polish and Czech press, authors: Jan Osička, Jörg Kemmerzell, Maksymilian Zoll, Lukáš Lehotský, Filip Černoch und Michèle Knodt The article addresses the future of coal in the European coal heartland, i.e. in the area of Germany, Poland and the […]
COST Action ENTER Policy Brief No. 1: October 201917/09/2019 - 8:08 pmCOST Action ENTER BRIEF NO.1/ October 2019 – Communication in EU External Energy Policy: Lessons from the Bilateral Energy Dialogues with Brazil, India, China and South Africa by Michèle Knodt and Franziska Müller This policy brief addresses some of the perceived challenges the European Union faces when discussing energy policy with the BICS countries and […]
Maarten van den HeuvelCOST Action ENTER Policy Brief Series17/09/2019 - 7:43 pmCommunication in EU External Energy Policy: Lessons from the Bilateral Energy Dialogues with Brazil, India, China and South Africa
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