Workshops

COST Action ENTER (CA17119) Call for Papers - Research Workshop EU's Climate and Energy Policy: Perceptions and Challenges 11-13 March 2019, Darmstadt, Germany Rationale and Aims: The Union’s role in developing international climate regimes and organizing international energy markets have, together with ambitious climate and energy policies followed by several European countries, elevated the importance of […]

COST Action ENTER (CA17119) Call for Papers - Research Workshop Communicating EU Foreign Policy: The Power of Political Dialogue? 12-14 March 2019, Darmstadt, Germany Rationale and Aims: The EU is facing new external realities. Key challenges for European societies - security, the migration crisis, environmental challenges such as climate change, a stable energy supply, or […]

The meeting took place on 13th of March 2019 in Darmstadt, Germany.  

The European Union is largely viewed as a cornerstone of European stability and prosperity. Currently, however, EU foreign policy experiences a broad array of new challenges, resulting in an ongoing reconfiguration of power as well as increased contestation of liberal principles within its core values. Furthermore, the EU has to deal with troublesome actors and […]

From the Global Compact for Migration to trade policy, from lethal autonomous weapons to sanctions on Russia, a range of decisions on EU external relations has been contested by states, national parliaments, political parties, civil society organizations, EU institutions and other actors at the EU and national levels. Far from being the external reflection of […]

The EU Global Strategy states that the EU’s Common Foreign Policy faces considerable challenges, both from the outside and from within. Externally, the EU is struggling with a more uncertain US foreign policy, a more assertive Russia, and an increasingly unstable and conflict prone neighbourhood. Internally, the EU is facing Brexit, challenges to develop a […]

Workshop organized by COST Action ENTER EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities (Working Group 1 – New Realities) This workshop aims to thorough discussions of the contemporary challenges in the field of non-proliferation and arms control diplomacy. The workshop will thus have sessions on the upcoming NPT review conference and its likely outcome as well […]

Workshop organized by COST Action ENTER EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities (Working Group 3 – Contestation) Contestation and politicization are ubiquitous in the fields of International Relations and European Studies. The distinct strands of literature that analyze how international norms and institutions, globalization, and European integration are contested have soared. Slower but steadily, interest […]

The EU Global Strategy states that the EU’s Common Foreign Policy faces considerable challenges, both from the outside and from within. Externally, the EU is struggling with a more uncertain US foreign policy, a more assertive Russia, and an increasingly unstable and conflict prone neighbourhood. Internally, the EU is facing Brexit, challenges to develop a […]

We are proud to announce our next Public Panel - "EU Foreign Policy in Times of Populism". It will take place on 27 February, 18:00-19:30, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Speakers: Gerda Falkner (Professor at University of Vienna): Right Wing Populist Parties in the EU and their positions on Foreign Policy Richard Whitman (Professor at Kent University): […]

Our next Management Committee Meeting was scheduled to take place in beautiful Zagreb, Croatia. Covid 19 changed this plan as well. Therefore our MC meeting will take place in a digital format. All MC members have received their invitation via mail.

The focus of this open-ended meeting/workshop is to present the project on mapping contestation of EU external relations and possible venues of approaching it in order to publish and edited volume by the end of the COST project. The main goal of the volume would be to systematically assess and measure contestation in EU external […]