On September 29, 2022, at 10:00 CET, the Razumkov Centre will arrange an online expert discussion on the topic of […]
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Category: Members
TEPSA Brief: “Digital trade integration: Global Trends”, Martina Francesca Ferracane
TEPSA is happy to present its new policy brief “Digital trade integration: Global Trends”, written by Martina Francesca Ferracane, Research […]
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“Inventory of EUFSP-related Public and Elite Opinion Surveys”, Pierangelo Isernia et al. (IAI, Italy)
This study offers an inventory of elite and public opinion surveys on EU foreign and security policy (EUFSP). It first […]
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“Stabilizing the European Continent: Reflections on the Future of EU Enlargement”, Jean De Ruyt (Egmont, Belgium)
Since the decision to accept Croatia as a candidate member in 2011, the debate in the European Union about its […]
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“Lebanon: Financial crisis or national collapse?”, Bassem Snaije (CIDOB, Barcelona)
Lebanon is experiencing an economic and financial crisis that seems to have begun with the outbreak of major demonstrations in […]
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“Taking into account the taxonomy: acting without harm in structural funds and recovery plans”, Marco Lopriore and Maureen Cossalter (EIPA, Maastricht)
This briefing compares how the Do No Significant Harm Principle (DNSH) is applied in Cohesion policy and the Recovery and […]
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Public Debate: “Next Steps in the EU Response to Russian Aggression: Building Unity from Diversity”, October 10
In building a common response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the European Union (EU) has had to overcome […]
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Public Debate: “Riga Dialogue 2022 – Transatlantic security: from Madrid to Vilnius summit”, September 16 (LIIA, Latvia)
In the framework of the annual Riga Dialogue, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, in cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nuclear Threat […]
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Call for Applications: “EU*Connect: An Interactive Digital Campus for Participants from Ukraine, France and Germany”, Deadline September 23 (CIFE)
Russia’s war of aggression has dramatically updated the question of Ukraine’s EU accession. Under the current circumstances, the European Union […]
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Job Vacancy: “Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies”, Deadline July 4 (UI, Sweden)
The Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) is hiring analysts who will be involved in shaping and establishing the Centre’s […]
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Call for Applications: “The 2022 Global Strategy PhD Prize”, Deadline October 1 (Egmont, Belgium)
The Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations and the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) are inviting submissions for […]
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Call for Proposals: “Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the Global South”, Deadline September 15 (IAI, Italy)
The International Spectator aims to provide academics, practitioners, opinion- and decision-makers, as well as interested laymen with thought-provoking, analytically sound, theoretically […]
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Call for Papers: “Business and International Order”, Deadline September 1 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
Organised by the ERC-funded project ECOINT, the ‘Business and International Order’ workshop will examine the interactions of business circles with […]
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Conference: “17th EACES Biennial Conference”, September 15-17 (IWE CERS, Hungary)
The COVID pandemic has worked as a magnifier of old problems and an accelerator of structural change and modernization. On […]
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Hybrid Conference: “34th Annual EAEPE Conference 2022”, September 7-9 (IWE CERS, Hungary)
Concerns about growing and changing inequalities are gaining momentum in public debate. The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted inequalities by showing […]
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“Sustainable finance in the EU: implementing the commitment to ‘Do No Significant Harm'”, Christoph Klika (EIPA, Maastricht)
In view of the growing importance of sustainable finance to complement the legislative agenda of the European Green Deal, this […]
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Online Course: “EU Law Resources on the Web: Finding the EU Info You Need in a Couple of Clicks”, October 28 (EIPA, Maastricht)
The official website of the European Union (www.europa.eu) is the biggest digital portal on the net. It is also the […]
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Course: “Communicating in an EU-related environment”, November 21-23 (College of Europe, Bruges)
This three-day programme was designed to help participants navigate the complex and yet important communications field in an EU related-environment. […]
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Online Course: “Sustainable Finance in the EU: The EU Taxonomy Regulation and the ‘Do no Significant Harm’ Principle”, October 27-28 (EIPA, Maastricht)
The course introduces the foundations of sustainable finance in the EU as an integral part in support of the European […]
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Course: “Negotiations in Practice”, November 14-18 (College of Europe, Bruges)
The purpose of this five-day training course is to provide participants with a practical insight into the negotiation mechanisms and […]
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Course: “European Public Procurement, PPP/Private Finance and Concessions”, October 25 (EIPA, Maastricht)
The course will provide an up-to-date overview of the current rules and developments in European public procurement based on the […]
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Online Course: “EU Project Management”, November 14-18 (College of Europe, Bruges)
A one-week interactive journey through the life of EU-funded projects, from programming to project design, proposal writing, budgeting, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Through detailed case studies and exercises on key project design and […]
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Online Roundtable: “In defence of democracy in the EU political system”, September 26-27 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
Democracies around the world have been faced with a series of interrelated challenges in recent years and European democracies are […]
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Course: “Data Protection: Refresher and Advanced Course for DPOs and Data Protection Experts”, October 24 (EIPA, Maastricht)
The combination of these courses Refresher and Advanced Course for DPOs and Data Protection Experts and the Data Protection:Hands-on Module […]
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Online Workshop: “EU Fact Checking & EU Fact Finding”, October 27-28 College of Europe, Bruges)
EU Fact Checking & EU Fact Finding are two half-day workshops to learn how to find one’s way through the […]
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Conference: “World Trade Forum 2022”, September 23 -24 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
The 2022 World Trade Forum, which is scheduled to take place from 23-24 September 2022, will bring together trade policy […]
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Course: “Internal, External and Performance Audit of the ESIF and NEXTGEN EU Funded Programmes and Projects”, October 17 (EIPA, Maastricht)
This highly practical three-day course will give you a complete overview and detailed understanding of all practical aspects of control […]
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Course: “Trade Policy”, October 17-20 (College of Europe, Bruges)
The main purpose of the College’s Trade Policy course is to ensure that participants are thoroughly acquainted with the main […]
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Conference: “Radicalisation, secularism and the governance of religion”, September 22-23 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
How do different countries govern religious diversity? How can religiously motivated violent radicalisation be prevented while upholding fundamental rights? The […]
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Course: “Understanding EU Decision-Making: Principles, Procedures, Practice”, October 13 (EIPA, Maastricht)
“I’m participating in that meeting in Brussels next week. Is it an expert group or a comitology committee?”“I need to […]
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Course: “EU Diplomacy & Diplomatic Skills”, October 3 (College of Europe, Bruges)
The European Union’s diplomatic efforts and external representation are inherently different from the Member-States’ external policies. The EU, with its […]
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Seminar: “The role of strategic litigation in nationality matters”, September 15 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
The seminar will focus in particular on the role of strategic litigation in challenging citizenship law as the last permitted […]
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Online Course: “Evaluation and Monitoring of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Programmes”, October 13 (EIPA, Maastricht)
New EU Structural and Cohesion Funds programmes for the period 2021-2027 have been prepared and are being agreed and implemented. […]
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Online Course: “European Defence & Security: New Threats, New Responses”, September 28-30 (College of Europe, Bruges)
An ever changing international stage and new threats such as cyber-attacks, climate change, hybrid threats, global terrorism, etc. call for more integrated mechanisms and […]
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Workshop: “Back to the future? Japan-China-US power politics”, September 2 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
This workshop hosts major academics working on US, China and Japan’s foreign and security policies hailing from three continents in […]
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Seminar: “How Important Are Traditional Values for Putin’s Support?”, August 30 (NUPI, Norway)
Since at least 2011–12, the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly based its claims to legitimacy on support […]
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Online Debate: “Europe’s energy supply with Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Franziska Brantner”, August 30 (IEP, Germany)
The question of the security of energy supply in Europe is more urgent than ever in the face of Russia’s […]
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Online Course: “Regulatory Impact Assessments”, October 6 (EIPA, Maastricht)
How can an impact assessment (IA) system be developed or how can an IA system be optimised? How can you […]
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Online Course: “Managing Migration in Europe”, September 19 (College of Europe, Bruges)
In the coming years, the European Union (institutions, Member States, national parliaments, EU agencies, regions, etc.) should mobilise its resources and have its legislative, […]
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Online Course: “Regulatory ex-post Evaluations”, October 4 (EIPA, Maastricht)
Is your organisation interested in enforcing their ex-post evaluation function? How can you manage evaluation activities better? How can you ensure high-quality ex-post evaluations? […]
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Course: “Introductory and Practitioners’ Seminar: European Public Procurement Rules, Policy and Practice”, October 4 (EIPA, Maastricht)
This comprehensive seminar will provide you with an understanding of the principles and procedures of European public procurement policy, focusing […]
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Online Conference: “Shaping a sustainable green culture inside Public Administration – Ever thought of a “green (HR) management” to support leadership?”, October 6 (EIPA, Maastricht)
Although public administration organisations should serve as a role model for sustainable change and transformation within societies, they face the […]
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Online Course: “Introduction to the Better Regulation Agenda”, October 3 (EIPA, Maastricht)
What you will learn in this course: the key concepts of Better Regulation (BR) and how they are applied across […]
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Course: “EU Financial Services Law for Non-Lawyers: Institutional and Regulatory Framework – What’s New?”, September 26 (EIPA, Maastricht)
In March 2019, the European Parliament and the Member States reached a political agreement to reform the current system of […]
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Online Workshop: “Strategic Foresight”, September 22 (EIPA, Maastricht)
To anticipate the future is of utmost importance for governments to being able to adapt and prepare for change. In […]
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Online Workshop: “Crisis Management”, September 16 (EIPA, Maastricht)
Recent health crisis and natural disasters have highlighted the urgent need for effective crisis management to increase preparedness and capabilities […]
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Roundtable: “CAF and Supreme Audit Institutions: Enhancing integrity in public sector”, September 15 (EIPA, Maastricht)
Public sector entities face increasing budgetary and operational pressures and the need for effective use of resources at a time […]
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Online Workshop: “Working with Complexity”, September 8 (EIPA, Maastricht)
The increasing complexity of policies requires governments and administrations to adapt and to find new and innovative solutions. In this […]
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Job Vacancy: “Senior Research Fellow”, Deadline August 21 (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) is an inter-disciplinary research centre at the heart of the European University […]
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Job Vacancy: “Researcher in the Global Actors Programme”, Deadline September 15 (IAI, Italy)
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), based in Rome (Italy), is seeking to hire a Researcher responsible for research, reporting and […]
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9th Edition of the “Leopolis for Future” Internship Program (College of Europe, Natolin)
On 1 July 2022, the College of Europe in Natolin, together with the Foundation “Leopolis for Future”, organized the inauguration ceremony […]
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The Institute for Development and International Relations has been awarded a new project (IRMO, Croatia)
The Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) from Zagreb, Croatia has been awarded a new project “Analysis and development […]
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The IEP has two new projects (IEP, Germany)
IEP is delighted to start the second half of 2022 with two new projects: ConnectBY supports networking activities and work of […]
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Open Consultation Forum with IFAD running candidates (IAI, Italy)
On the 7th of July 2022, IFAD appointed Alvaro Lario, official candidate of the Kingdom of Spain, as its President. […]
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WEASA 2022 concluded successfully at Natolin (College of Europe, Natolin)
The Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA) concluded its 9-day programme of events at Natolin on Monday, 18 July 2022. Nearly […]
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Conference: “European Think Tank Conference”, October 19-20 (DGAP, Germany)
The Think Tank Lab and its partners cordially invite you to the European Think Tank Conference 2022, taking place on […]
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“The Geopolitics of Clean Hydrogen: Opportunities and Challenges for Italy”, Marco Giuli (IAI, Italy)
The emergence of clean hydrogen as an energy carrier promises to shape the future geography of the energy trade. Under […]
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“Russian Spring 2022 Recruitment Cycle: Putin’s Camouflaged Referendum?”, Joris Van Bladel (Egmont, Belgium)
In May 2022, Egmont published the Paper 116 entitled The Russian Soldiers’ Question Revisited, in which they suggested, “The current […]
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“Brexit thwarts democracy in Northern Ireland”, Seán Golden (CIDOB, Barcelona)
The UK has proposed overriding provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a precondition of the EU-UK free trade agreement. The […]
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“Politics of the Debtfare State: Repoliticizing the Czech Debt Enforcement Order and Its Limits”, Daniel Šitera (IIR, Czech Republic)
In Czechia, one of the statistically most equal and least indebted states, almost one-tenth of its (mostly low-income) population is […]
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“Can the West Afford to Let the World Go Hungry? Overcoming Challenges to Establishing a Humanitarian Corridor in the Black Sea”, Isak Runarsson (IAI, Italy)
While economic interdependencies do not prevent war, witnessed most recently by Russia’s naked war of conquest in Ukraine, the costs […]
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“Autonomy through digital resilience: The importance of upholding the national tech stack”, Markus Holmgren (FIIA, Finland)
The national tech stack refers to the totality of a nation’s technological capability, including its infrastructure, supply chains, governance, and […]
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“Balancing Conventional and Hybrid Threats in (Future) State Competition”, Pieter Balcaen and Bernard Siman (Egmont, Belgium)
Much attention has been drawn in latest years to the increasing challenges posed by ‘hybrid threats’, and the question how […]
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“After Boris Johnson, can the UK regain international respect?”, Francis Ghilès (CIDOB, Barcelona)
Without Boris Johnson, Brexit would never have happened. Johnson’s personal brand swung the narrow win for Leave in 2016. Despite […]
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“A Temporary Gas Savings Subsidy as an Emergency Tool to Reduce Gas Consumption and Emissions”, Daniel Gros (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
“A key problem for European policy makers today is how to reduce Europe’s dependency on gas imports from Russia. This […]
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“General Overview of the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine”, Olga Pyshchulina (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine caused a rapid increase in humanitarian needs and a humanitarian crisis, the consequences of which […]
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“Chinese investment in the Baltic Sea region: main characteristics and policy challenges”, Ágnes Szunomár and Kálmán Kalotay (IWE CERS, Hungary)
This report analyses the dynamics and main features of Chinese investment, especially foreign directinvestment (FDI), in the Baltic Sea region, […]
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“Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community”, Ondřej Ditrych and Tomáš Kučera (IIR, Czech Republic)
This article situates recent initiatives to deepen security and defence cooperation in the European Union in the historical perspective. It […]
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“The EU Approach to Space Traffic Management”, Giancarlo La Rocca, Karolina Muti and Alessandro Marrone (IAI, Italy)
A main goal of Spaceways will be to characterise and understand the context of Space Traffic Management (STM), especially its […]
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“US global security partnerships in the Biden era: Twilight or regeneration?”, Eoin Micheál McNamara (FIIA, Finland)
Guarantee-based alliances underpinned US grand strategy during the Cold War, but policies designed for the War on Drugs (WOD) after […]
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“Al-Shabab in Mozambique: Taking Stock of an Insurgency Under Cover”, Tom Van Rentergem (Egmont, Belgium)
Since the first attack in October 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with an extremist insurgency called Ansar Al-Sunna Wa Jamma […]
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“International Business, 2nd Edition”, Peter J. Buckley, Peter Enderwick and Hinrich Voss (CIR, Slovenia)
Written by a world-renowned author team and drawing together key theories and perspectives using Peter Buckley’s Global Factory framework, International Business […]
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“Melilla, One More Step”, Blanca Garcés Mascareñas (CIDOB, Barcelona)
The border violence isn’t new but the deaths at the Melilla border fence on 24 June are one more step. […]
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“Towards a smart and sustainable single European transport area: An assessment of the past 10 years of EU regulation”, Matthias Finger, Juan Montero and Teodora Serafimova (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
This book achieves two major objectives. First, it reminds us of the decades-long journey to build a Single European Transport […]
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“The Wholesale Electricity Market in Wartime”, Svitlana Chekunova (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
The unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a severe impact on the wholesale electricity market. Since the beginning of […]
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“Russkii as the New Rossiiskii? Nation-Building in Russia After 1991”, Helge Blakkisrud (NUPI, Norway)
Russia’s post-1991 nation-building project has been torn between competing interpretations of national identity. Whereas the other former Soviet republics opted […]
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“‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanisation”, Ágnes Szunomár et al. (IWE CERS, Hungary)
Research on international business presents ‘liability of foreignness’ as a key factor in a Multinational Enterprise’s (MNE’s) operations, but it […]
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“The Diplomatic Rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt: Implications and Recommendations for the Czech Presidency of the EU”, Clément Steuer, Pelin Ayan Musil and Sinan Arda (IIR, Czech Republic)
The recent rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt could be the key to the stabilization of the situation in Libya, which […]
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“Gender Issues in Russia”, Marina Pisklakova-Parker (IAI, Italy)
Gender inequality in the Russian Federation has been growing in the past few years due to the lack of a […]
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“EU candidate Ukraine and the 27 gatekeepers: Pragmatizing the EU enlargement policy”, Tyyne Karjalainen (FIIA, Finland)
The signing of the European Union membership application by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the fourth day of Russia’s invasion of […]
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“Is Europe Serious About Defense?”, Alexander Mattelaer (Egmont, Belgium)
Slowly but surely Europeans are getting serious about defense. Military expenditure is trending upward, readiness is being rebuilt, and collective […]
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“Slovenia: High interest in the complementarity of the Three Seas Initiative with EU regional development frameworks”, Ana Bojinović Fenko (CIR, Slovenia)
Slovenia positions itself within the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) based on its general understanding of the origin and potential outcomes […]
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“As North African energy links are redrawn, Italy becomes Europe’s southern gas hub”, Francis Ghilès (CIDOB, Barcelona)
The war that began in Ukraine in February 2022 is reshaping international relations – in some sectors faster than others. […]
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“CMPF’s contribution to the Call for Evidence on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)”, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (RSCAS-EUI, Italy)
The CMPF welcomes the high symbolic and normative value of a European Media Freedom Act. It is many years, probably […]
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“Global Trends of Green Investment”, Kateryna Markevych (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
Environmental threats related to global climate change and environmental degradation have been at the forefront of global development risks in […]
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“NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept: Change, Continuity and Implications”, Gabriella Bolstad and Eskil Jakobsen (NUPI, Norway)
On the 29th of June 2022, in Madrid, NATO’s 30 members adopted a new Strategic Concept for the Alliance. The […]
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“An overview of strategies for social-ecological transformation in the field of transportation”, John Szabo, Thomas SJ Smith and Leon Leuser (IWE CERS, Hungary)
A destructive and wasteful transportation model has developed across the Global North and further afield over the last 150 years, […]
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“When International Disasters Affect Technology Transfer: Where is International Law?”, Federica Cristiani (IIR, Czech Republic)
Natural disasters may have devastating impacts on human life, the economy, and environment of the affected states. This article focuses […]
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“Youth Ideas for the Future of Europe”, Funda Tekin et al. (IEP, Germany)
What conditions contribute to the success of European participation projects? First, a wide European network and a supportive application process are […]
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“Tackling Uncertainty: Turkish-EU Foreign Policy Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa”, Andrea Dessì, Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Daniela Huber (IAI, Italy)
With the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan, the continuation of overlapping security and socio-economic challenges across much of the […]
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“Russia’s connectivity strategies in Eurasia: Politics over economy”, Kristiina Silvan and Marcin Kaczmarski (FIIA, Finland)
Russia has been attempting to strengthen connectivity within Eurasia since the early 2000s as a part of its policy to […]
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“Free rider no more? Belgium and the NATO Madrid Summit”, Alexander Mattelaer (Egmont, Belgium)
When Paul-Henri Spaak signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949, he did so full of confidence and pride. Today, however, […]
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“NATO’s New Strategic Concept: Novelties and Priorities”, Alessandro Marrone (IAI, Italy)
NATO’s new Strategic Concept provides a clear set of guidelines for the Alliance in a mid-term perspective. Adopted on 29 […]
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“A New Eastern Question? Great Powers and the Post-Yugoslav States”, Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl (CIR, Slovenia)
This compilation of essays by scholars from the region, Western Europe, and the US, explores the intersection of international politics […]
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“Sense and Nonsense behind Energy Price Caps”, Daniel Gros and Nathalie Tocci (IAI, Italy)
In official circles at the highest level, from the G7 to the European Council, a tense debate is taking place […]
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“Relations on thin ice: a narrative analysis of Chinese governance in the Arctic”, Erin Marie Parsons (CIDOB, Barcelona)
In a fractured governance architecture, the Arctic region is increasingly faced with complex challenges like climate change, indigenous rights and […]
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“European Defence: Time to Act”, Alessandro Azzoni (IAI, Italy)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has renewed momentum on the long-standing debate on EU defence, convincing […]
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“Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality”, Csaba Lakócai (IWE CERS, Hungary)
Beckfield’s book is an empirical study on how European integrationhas affected the (mainly Western European) welfare state systems.Data analyses reveal […]
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“Green Deal Watch No. 7”, Margherita Bianchi and Lorenzo Colantoni (IAI, Italy)
This Green Deal Watch presents a general analytical foreword, followed by the in-depth monitoring of Green Deal activities, divided according […]
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“Samir Amin and the Changing of the World”, Annamária Artner (IWE CERS, Hungary)
This article examines the answers that Samir Amin, a well-known theorist of the Third World, gave to three questions: why, […]
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