Programme
European Union in International Affairs(Summarised programme, version of 14 April, subject to minor changes. For the full programme, please visit the ConfTool platform and go to the section 'Browse Conference Agenda'). |
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8:30am |
Registration and welcome coffee |
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9:00am |
Panel 152: Cultural governance and EU external relations: The case of European film |
Panel 205: Author meets critics: EU and Russian Hegemony in the "Shared Naighbourhood" |
Panel 212: The EU as a negotiator of international agreements |
Panel 213: Between norms and strategy: the EP's role in EU's international affairs |
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Panel 273: Competition in the Digital Era (CODE): Competition in the Digital Age: Geopolitics, Technology and Implications for Europe |
Panel 300: Into the Crossfire: the role of the EU in an Era of Renewed Great Power Competition |
Panel D: Frictions in EU international affairs: liberalism, borders and sovereignty |
Panel Y: EU Trade Regulations in a Fragmented World: Navigating Sustainability and Global Impact |
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10:30am |
Coffee break |
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11:00am |
Panel 140: ENP in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities |
Panel 142: The Ukraine effect in European security and defence: lessons after three years of war |
Panel 218: EU Readmission and return: Towards a normative approach |
Panel 230: Reflecting the external dimensions of EU's global green leadership with comparative research |
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Panel 350: The EU as in/external social policy actor |
Panel 362: Green Thinking, Green Teaching: New frontiers in European Studies Education (Roundtable) |
Panel B: EU-Africa Relations: Power, Partnerships, and Perspective |
Panel G: The European Parliament in Global Affairs: Geopolitics, Agency and Influence |
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12:30pm |
Lunch break |
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2:00pm |
Panel 220: Bridging emotions and memory politics in European Foreign Policy |
Panel 255: European Union external relations towards South America: environmental policies versus trade? |
Panel 272: Depoliticising EU Migration Policies in Times of Heightened National Politicisation |
Panel 279: Securing Europe: Institutional Challenges and Strategic Responses in Defence Policy |
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Panel 354: What Future for Europe and the West Now? Russia and the EU fighting for the Driving Seat |
Panel 380: Trading Green: Sectoral Applications and Policy Mechanisms in the Evolving EU Environmental Trade Policy |
Panel 445: The EU-China Relations in a Changing Global Order |
Panel M: Europe in the Geoeconomic Era: Strategies, Risks, and Political Dynamics |
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3:30pm |
Coffee Break |
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4:00pm |
Welcome remarks Welcome words from organising institutions and conference chairs |
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4:30pm |
Keynote speech: Marta Kos - EU Commissioner for Enlargement |
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5:00pm |
Coffee break |
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5:30pm |
UNU-CRIS 25th Anniversary Roundtable: Past, Present and Future of Regionalism Studies |
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6:45pm |
Reception sponsored by UNUCRIS and EFAR |
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8:30am |
Registration and welcome coffe |
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9:00am |
Panel 136: The EU's Evolving Management of the Environment-Trade Nexus |
Panel 287: Outsourced empire? Questioning norms and values of EU external relations |
Panel 288: Protean and Control Power and EU's Actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood |
Panel 305: Structural Shifts in Sino-EU Relations: Cooperation, Divergences, and Future Prospects |
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Panel 326: Between Rebordering and Fragmentation: Revisiting the External Dimension of the EU Migration Policy |
Panel 360: Constructing Sovereignty in Cyberspace: the EU's Approach |
Panel 448: Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU's role as a Global Actor I |
Panel T: Challenges and Dilemma in EU Enlargement and Integration |
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10:30am |
Coffee break |
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11:00am |
Panel 215: Georgia-EU relation: a multi-scalar and multi-actors analysis of current trends |
Panel 285: Roundtable: Beware, the EU might get what is wished for: the discursive pitfalls of a "mature" and "geopolitical" EU |
Panel 351: Green transition for whom? A critical examination of the EU's critical raw materials supply chains and their implications for human rights and environmental justice |
Panel 411: Fragmentation vs Plurality? The EU as an actor in global digital government |
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Panel 428: EU Pharmaceutical Regulation goes global: Pathways of Influence, role of EU agencies, and non-European perspectives |
Panel 449: Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the EU's role as a Global Actor II |
Panel L: EU Trade and Green Policies: Balancing Values and Interests |
Panel U: Practices and practitioners of EU external action |
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12:30pm |
Lunch break |
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1:30pm |
Panel 187: The EU's Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda Reasserted: Navigating Unilateralism, Geopolization and Legitimacy Concerns |
Panel 313: European Security and Defence in Times of War: Responding to Traditional and Emerging Threats |
Panel 407: Transgovernmental Gateways: The Role of EU Agencies and Networks in Shaping EU external governance |
Panel 425: The European Peace facility's serendipitous success: geopolitics, partnerships, defence |
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Panel F: The EU's Role in Shaping Technology Governance, Diplomacy and Actorness |
Roundtable on Perspectives for Early Career Scholars Speakers: Ozlem Atikcan, Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University; Antonio Calcara, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB); |
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3:00pm |
Coffee break |
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3:15pm |
Panel 270: Shaping International Order? Opportunities and challenges to the EU's global influence |
Panel 343: The EU's Geo-Economic Turn: Implications for EU Policy-making |
Panel 369: Investors, Sustainable Finance, and Global Value Chains |
Panel 423: the EU's ambitions in the geopolitics of technology |
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Panel A: Questioning Externalization: The adaptation of the EU's Migration Governance |
Panel C: Voices of Influence: Civil Society, Advocacy and Media in the EU's Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods |
Panel R: Neighbourhood Policy |
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3:30pm |
Egmont Policy Panel: Is Europe really rearming? Chairs: Sven Biscop, Egmont Institute & Ghent University Speakers: Inge Ceuppens, Defence Project Manager - DG DEFIS; Lieutenant-General Pierre Gérard, Military Representative of Belgium to NATO and the EU; Vassilis Theodosopoulos, Senior Manager Security anf Defence - ASD; Alexander Mattelaer, Associate Professor at CSDS-VUB and Senior Research Fellow at Egmont |
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4:45pm |
Coffee break |
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5:00pm |
ETH Zurich Panel: Strategic Trends in 2025 and their implications for Europe |
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6:30pm |
Reception sponsored by ETH Zurich |
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8:30am |
Registration and welcome coffee |
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9:00am |
Panel E: Redefining European Security between Fragmentation and Adaptation |
Panel N: The Dynamics of EU Enlargement: Framing, Opportunity and Contestation |
Panel P: Addressing China: The EU's Economic and Geopolitical responses |
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Panel S: The EU and Democracy Promotion: Elections, Human Rights, and Political Discourse |
Panel V: Resource Geopolitics: The EU's Role in Energy Security and Critical Supply Chains |
Panel Z: Soft Power in Flux: EU Strategies, Global Narratives, and the Dynamics of International Influence |
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10:30am |
Coffee break |
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11:00am |
Keynote Lecture: European Foreign Affairs Review (EFAR) - The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics Ian Manners |
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12:00pm |
Best Paper Award for early-career scholars |
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12:15pm |
Lunch Break |
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1:30pm |
Panel 216: Liminality and ontological security of the in-between countries since Russia's invasion of Ukraine |
Panel H: The EU's Climate Diplomacy: Leadership, Partnerships, and External Perspectives |
Panel I: EU Development Fragmentation and the Future of Global Gateway |
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Panel O: Navigating the Indo-Pacific: The EU's Evolving Security Role and Strategic Ambitions |
Panel Q: The EU and the Future of Inter-regional Cooperation |
Roundtable with Journal Editors Conversation with Journal Editors 1. Journal of European Integration, 2. Journal of Common Market Studies, 3. Contemporary Security Policy, 4. European Security Journal, 5. European Foreign Affairs Review |
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