9,2015

CRISIS,CONFLICTANDCRITICALDIPLOMACY:EUPERCEPTIONSINUKRAINEANDISRAEL/PALESTINE(C3EU)

C3EUFINALMEETING/SISYMPOISUM/FINALPUBICEVENT

SEPTEMBER8-10,BRUSSELS,BELGIUM

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C3EUFINALSENIORPARTNERMEETING

C3EU“FOCUSED”SISYMPOSIUM

C3EUFINALPUBLICEVENT

Theworkshophasseveralkeyobjectives:

1. Todiscussfinalresultsofthethreeyearconsortiumresearchprogrammeand

disseminationeventsinYear3

2. Tooverviewfinalreportprogress.

3. To discuss/review contributions to the Special Issue with European Security

journalintheformatofthe“FocusedSymposium”

4. Todiscussotherdisseminationeffortsandoutputs

5. TopreparetotheC3EUFinalPublicEvent

6. TopresentattheFinalPublicEventtostakeholdersinBrussels

TheworkshopisledbyProfessorNataliaChaban,JeanMonnetChairandC3EUleader.

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1. WORKSHOPPROGRAMME

Day1,Saturday,82018ArrivalDay

ArrivalandaccommodationintheSofitelBrusselsEuropeHotelhttp://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-5282-sofitel-brussels-europe/index.shtml

Hoteladdress:PlaceJourdan11040BRUSSELSBELGIUMPublicTransportOptionstoreachhotelfromAirport–pleasekeepallreceiptsforMetro/Bus–thesewillbereimbursedbyIana.

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NB:

• Taxisarenotreimbursed.Please,takepublictransport.• REIMBURSEMENTONLYONRECEIPT

Time:4-6:30pm

C3EUFinalMeetingofSeniorPartners.Room:JenRay-RoyJenkinsRoomattheSofitelBrusselsEuropeHotel

• ReportonresultsandachievementsoftheC3EUNetwork(briefoverviewoftheC3EUobjectivesandYear1-3results)

• UpdateontheC3EUfinalreportprogress• KeypointsinpreparationfortheStakeholderRoundtable

4-5:45pm

Facilitator:ProfNataliaChaban• FinaladminmomentsFacilitators:ProfNataliaChabanandProfMartinHolland

Forthosewhoarethepresenters

• DiscussionsandpreparationtotheC3EUFinalPublicEventonSeptember10.5:45-6:30pmFacilitator:ProfNataliaChaban

DinnerNB:Thisdinnerisnotofficiallyorganised.Partnersarediningontheirown.

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Day2,Sunday,September9,2018 By8:55am

BreakfastatthehotelAfterBreakfastpleaseproceedtotheKonradAdenauerRoomatthehotel

MorningSession9:00-12:15

C3EU“Focused”SISymposiumLocation:theKonradAdenauerRoomatthehotel

Facilitators:SIeditorsNataliaChaban,BenO’Loughlin,AlisterMiskimmonandMartinHollandExternalReviewer:ProfOleElgström,LundUniversity,Sweden

Eachpresentationis40minuteslong.Thisincludes:• Presentationbyauthor(s)supportedbythePPT:15minmax• CommentsbythereviewerProfOleElgström:10min• Questions/commentsfromtheC3EUteam,discussions:15min

NataliaChaban,BenO’Loughlin,AlisterMiskimmonandMartinHolland.Introduction9:00-9:40AlisterMiskimmonandBenO’Loughlin:ACrisisofInfluence?ExplainingtheEffectsofEUStrategicNarrativesinUkraine9:40-10:2010:20-10:30Coffeebreak(coffeeservedtotheroom)Patrick Müller: Normative Power Europe in Times of Crises: InsightsfromtheIsraeli-PalestinianConflict10:30-11:10Iana Sabatovych, Pauline Heinrichs, Yevheniia Hobova and ViktorVelivchenko: ‘Learning’narrativesoftheEU’sexternalperceptionsinUkraine,IsraelandPalestine:acriticalapproachtowardstheimplementationoftheEU’sexternalgovernanceamonglocalcivilsocietyelites11:10-11:50

12:00-1:00 Lunch(cateredtotheSymposiumvenue)Afternoonsession

Natalia Chaban, Michèle Knodt and Šarūnas Liekis: Narrators’Perspectives: Communicating the EU in Ukraine, Israel and Palestine intimesofconflict1:00-1:40OlenaMorozova,SvitlanaZhabotynskaandHalynaYavorska:TheEUandUkraine in the mirror of conceptual metaphors: Monomodal andmultimodalmetaphorsandcreationofnarratives1:40-2:20

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2:20-2:30CoffeebreakAnastasiyaPshenychnykh: Ukrainian Perspectives on the Self, the EU andRussia:Intertextualdynamicsinnarrativecommunication2:30-3:10Svitlana Zhabotynska andValentynaVelivchenko:NewMediaandStrategicNarratives: The Dutch Referendum on Ukraine’s EU Accession Agreement inUkrainianandRussianInternetBlogs.3:10-3:50

3:50-4:00 SISymposiumWrapUpandWorkingPlaninSIProductionFacilitator:NataliaChaban

4:00-6:00 PresentersattheFinalEventconveneforabriefdiscussion/preparationtothePublicEventFacilitator:ProfNataliaChaban

6:30 DinnerLaVitaèBella,Froissartstraat43dinneriscoveredbyparticipantspersonally

Day2,Monday,September10,2018

Breakfastatthehotel

Morningsessions9:00-10:00

FinalEventPresentersconveneforthefinalpreparationatthehotel(groundfloor,businesslounge)TherestoftheteamdepartstotheEmbassyofLithuaniatoassistinthelogisticalpreparationtotheevent(ledbyIanaSabatovych)

Location:EmbassyofLithuania,RueBelliard41,Brussels,

10:30 PresentersdepartsfromthehoteltotheEmbassy

11:00-12:00 FinalPreparationtothePublicEventattheEmbassy

12:00-12:30 Pre-eventReceptionattheEmbassy

(cateredtotheEmbassy)

12:30-2:00 PublicEvent

2:00-2:30 FinalGoodByes.Teammembersdepart.

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Workshopparticipants

UniversityofCanterbury(Christchurch,NewZealand)

C3EULeadingOrganisation

Prof.NataliaChaban(C3EULeader)

Prof.NataliaChabanisaJeanMonnetChairandDeputyDirectoroftheNationalCentreforResearchonEuropeattheUniversityofCanterbury,NewZealand.AUCTeachingAwardrecipient,Nataliateachesanddesignsa variety of under- and post-graduate courses and supervises MA/PhDstudentsinEuropeanandEUStudies.Inherregionalengagement,sheisthe President of Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and NewZealand and co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal ofEuropeanStudies(sinceitsinceptionin2009).Natalia focuses her interdisciplinary researchon cognitive and semioticaspects of political and media discourses, and image and perceptionsstudies within the EU and IR contexts. Since 2002, together with ProfMartin Holland, she has been co-leading a comparative transnationalproject“EUGlobalPerceptions”.ThisprojecthasbeensupportedbyJeanMonnet Programme of the European Commission, European ExternalAction Service and Asia Europe Foundation. She also led a projectstudying NATO perceptions in Asia Pacific supported by the NATOScience forPeaceandSecurityProgrammeandNATOPublicDiplomacyDivision.Natalia’scontributiontothefieldofEUexternalperceptionshasbeen internationally recognized by scholars and stakeholders,andresearchdesignandmethodshavebeenreplicatedaroundtheworld.NataliawidelypublishesonthetopicofEUexternalperceptionsincludingarticles in high impact journals such as the Journal of CommonMarketStudies,JournalofEuropeanIntegration,EuropeanForeignAffairsReview,Cooperation andConflict, ForeignPolicyAnalysis,Mobilities, ComparativeEuropeanPolitics.Most recently, she co-edited Communicating Europe in Times of Crisis:External Perceptions of the European Union (Palgrave 2014, with M.Holland) and ImportingEUNorms (Springer 2015, with A. Björkdahl, J.LeslieandA.Masselot).SheisaGuestEditorofSpecialIssues–‘ExternalImagesoftheEU–EnergyPowerAcrosstheGlobe’(withM.KnodtandA.Verdun,ComparativeEuropeanPolitics, 2017); “TheEU and its EasternNeighbours: Perceptions and StrategicDialogue in theRegion” (withM.KnodtandJ.Headley,EuropeanForeignAffairsReview,2018);and“NATOGlobalPerceptions–ViewsfromtheAsia-PacificRegion”(withP.Bacon,J.Burton,V.Vernygora,AsianSecurity2018).HerbookBilateralEnergyRelationsbetweentheEUandEmergingPowers:MutualPerceptionoftheEUandBrazil,China, IndiaandSouthAfrica (co-authoredwithM.Knodtand L. Nielsen) is published with Nomos in 2017. Her co-edited book(with M. Holland) Shaping the EU’s Global Strategy: Partners andPerceptions, (Palgrave McMilland) is forthcoming in the second half of2018.

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Prof.MartinHolland

Prof. Martin Holland holds New Zealand’s only Jean Monnet Chair adpersona and is a Director of both the National Centre for Research onEurope at theUniversity of Canterbury and of EuropeanUnion CentresNetwork in New Zealand. He is an active member of a number ofinternationalEUresearchnetworks.ProfessorHollandhastaughtattheUniversityofCanterburysince1984:in2000heestablishedtheNationalCentreforResearchonEurope,NewZealand’sonlydedicatedEUtertiarylevelcentre.Professor Holland is internationally recognised for his work on EUDevelopment Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy andPerceptions of the EU. He heads the multinational “EU ExternalPerceptionsProject”whichwasrecognizedbyDGEducationandCultureas one of the top 20 “JeanMonnet Success Stories” and has supervisedtrans-national projects on perceptions of the EU in Asia, Africa and thePacific.Hehasheldanumberofnotableawards,including:aJeanMonnetFellowship, European University Institute, 1987; Alexander vonHumboldtFellowship,Freiburg,1992-4;RockerfellerBellagioFellowship,2000; Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and InternationalRelations,2002-6;andaJeanMonnetChairadpersonamsince2008.He is the author of over one hundred articles as well as twenty-threebooks (single-authored, co-authored and edited collections), two recenttitles being “Development Policy of the EU” (with M. Doidge, Palgrave,2012) and“Communicating Europe in the Times of Crisis: ExternalPerceptions of the European Union”(Ed. with N. Chaban, Palgrave-McMillan,2014).

IanaSabatovych

IanaSabatovychisathird-yearPhDstudentandPost-DoctoralResearchFellowattheNationalCentreforresearchonEuropeattheUniversityofCanterbury(Christchurch,NewZealand).In2010,IanagraduatedfromtheMariupolStateUniversityofHumanities(Mariupol, Ukraine) completing her Bachelor degree in InternationalEconomywithHonours.In2011,shegraduatedMariupolStateUniversity(Mariupol, Ukraine), accomplishing Master in International EconomicActivities with Honours. She organized academic events in MalaysiabeforejoiningtheNCREasaPh.D.studentin2013.Her thesis investigates the patterns of Ukraine’s post-communisttransition and limitations of Europeanization with a particularconsideration of Europeanization beyond Europe in an absence of EUmembershipprospect.

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TeamUkraineProf.GalinaYavorska

Prof.GalinaYavorskagraduatedfromtheFacultyofRussianLanguageandLiteratureat theShevchnkoStateUniversity inKyiv in1975.Since1976 she was working at the Department of General Linguistics andSlavic Languages at the Potebnya Institute of Linguistics, Academy ofSciencesofUkraine.In1988sheacquiredherPhDdegree(CandidateofSciences) in General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics andin 2000 she acquired the Second PhD (Doctor of sciences) degree inGeneralLinguistics.Since2001till2010shewasworkingattheNationalInstituteforInternationalSecurity.Since2010sheisworkingasachiefresearcher of Foreign Policy and International Security Department atthe National Institute for Strategic Studies. She was appointed a fullprofessorinNationalSecurityin2010.Shehaspublishedextensivelyonvarious aspects of lexical sematics, semantically oriented typology,cognitivesemantics.Theother importantdirection inherworkfocuseson the interplay of language and society, including sociolinguistic andpoliticaldiscourseanalysisapproaches.GalinaYavorskaisalsoanexpertin global and regional security issues, esp. in EU’s NeighbourhoodPolicy.Galina Yavorska was involved in cross-cultural and cross-linguistics research on lexical typology (color names, pain metaphors,social terms in Slavic and other Indo-European languages), she haspublishedworksontheUkrainianpoliticaldiscourseandtheperceptionof EU/Europe in Ukrainian texts through the prism of conceptualmetaphors. She was a participant of a whole number of internationalresearch projects promoting the results of her work at variousconferences.

Prof.SvitlanaZhabotynska

Prof. Svitlana ZhabotynskaobtainedherCandidateofSciences (PhD)degree fromKyivState Institute forForeign languages (1982), andherDoctorofLinguistics(Habilitation)degreefromMoscowStateLinguisticUniversity(1993)andKyivNationalLinguisticUniversity(2000).Since1990, she has been doing research in the field of cognitive linguisticsthatstudiesthenatureofinteractionbetweenlanguageandthemind.Asa Senior Fulbright Scholar, she stayedwith theUniversity of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign(1995),andtheUniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego(2000-2001)whereshewasexposedtotheaccomplishmentsofvariousAmerican schools of linguistic pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, andneurolinguistics. She is the authorof Semantics of LingualNetworks, aconception that develops methodology for construal of linguistic and-non-linguisticinformation.Her150scholarlypublicationsinthefieldofcognitive linguistics and cognitive science focus on the conceptualfoundations of various linguistic phenomena (part-of-speech systems,derivationalmorphology,lexicalmeaning,lexicalfields,syntax,textanddiscourseorganization),andtheirapplicationinthelanguageclassroom.Of late, the spheres of her particular interest have been politicallinguistics(theuseoflanguageasweaponsintheinformationwar),andneurologicalfoundationsoflanguageacquisitionandbilingualism.At her home university, among other classes, she teaches theoreticallinguistics, research methodologies of cognitive linguistics, andconceptualmodelingforlanguageacquisition.Sheguest-lecturesalotatdifferentuniversitiesinsideandoutsideUkraine.

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Prof.OlenaMorozova

Olena I. Morozova is Professor of Linguistics at V.N.KarazinKharkivNational University. She is the author of the book Ложь какдискурсивное образование: лингвокогнитивный аспект [Lying as aDiscourse Formation: ALinguocognitive Aspect], Kharkov (2005), adozenchaptersincollectivemonographsandoverfiftypublishedpaperswhichaddress issuesofcognitive linguisticsanddiscoursestudies.Hercurrentresearch,whichisunderpinnedwiththeecologicalapproachtosense-formation, concentrates on linguistic aspects of persuasion,speechmanipulation, lyinganddeception.The issues in focusare:howlanguageisrootedininterpretationoflinguisticandnon-linguisticsigns;how this process contributes into our construction of identities forpeople around us and a repertoire of personas for ourselves; how adeeper understanding of linguistic construal processes can inform thetheory and practice of language teaching in higher educationalestablishments. A Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2000 (University ofArizona,USA).

DrAnastasiyaPshenichnykh

Dr. Anastasiya Pshenichnykh is Associate Professor of EnglishPhilology Department at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University,Ukraine. Her initial scientific interest was cognitive and discursivestudies: in 2012 she defended her Ph.D. in Philology on the topicReperspectivization of the Referent Situation in English DialogicalDiscourse(asPresented inMultimediaLive-ActionFilms). In order to dothis research she moved to the field of image and media studies andbecameaparticipantofHigherEducationSupportProgram,PhilosophyandMediaprojectundertheguidanceofaninternationalgroupofinter-disciplinary scientists. Since then she has been lecturing MediaCommunicationsAnalysiscourseandhasbeendoinganinter-disciplinaryand inter-semiotic research of media: Soviet and Post-Soviet spaceconceptualizationandrepresentationinfilms,interculturalperspectivesof big cities construedby films, aggressionon the Internet, advertisingstrategiesandothers.

TeamIsrael/PalestineDr.PatrickMüller

Dr. PatrickMüller is SeniorResearchFellowat the Faculty for SocialScienceattheUniversityoftheBasqueCountry.From2009till2015hewas Assistant Professor at the Institute for European IntegrationResearchatViennaUniversity.PatrickwasalsoworkingasTransatlanticPost-doc Fellow for InternationalRelations at theGerman Institute forInternational and Security Affairs (SWP), the Institut Français desRelations Internationales (IFRI), Paris, and at the Johns HopkinsUniversityinWashingtonDC.HisresearchinterestsincludetheEU’srolein global governance, European foreign policy, Middle East andMediterranean Politics, and the Arab Israeli conflict. He has publishedwidely on these subjects including in journals such as the Journal ofEuropean Pubic Policy, the Journal of European Integration,Mediterranean Politics, European Security and InternationalPeacekeeping, aswell aswithmajor international presses (e.g. OxfordUniversityPress,Routledge,Palgrave).Patrick has also worked as a consultant for UNDP and as a projectmanager forNGOs in Jerusalemforaperiodof twoyearsandprovided

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consultancyservicestotheGermangovernment,theBundestagandtheGerman Ministry of Foreign Affairs on matters related to EU foreignpolicy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a frequent commentator ininternational media, including outlets such as CNN, the Economist, LeMonde,Handesblatt,FinancialTimes,Ha’aretz,derStandard,andORF.

TechnischeUniversitätDarmstadt,Germany

Prof.MichèleKnodt

JM Prof. Knodt specialises in European Multi-Level Governance,EuropeanExternalEnergyGovernanceand interest intermediationanddirects the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “EU in Global Dialogue(CEDI). She coordinates another project onEU’s democracypromotionin the South-Caucasus and Central Asia founded by the VolkswagenFoundation with 8 partners out of the two regions. Financed by theGerman ForeignMinistry she just started a project on “Civil Society oftheEasternPartnership inDialogue:MutualPerceptionsof theEasternPartnershipCountries,RussiaandtheEU”asaleaderwithpartnersoutof the6EasternPartnershipcountries.Asa leaderofEnergyCentreatTUDarmstadt,shepioneeredavisionofenergyasacross-cuttingissue.She broadens the research perspective by analysing the norms,discoursesandroles/identitiesthatshapethemodesofexternalenergygovernance. She is currently coordinating an international researchproject on EU External Energy Governance towards the emergingpowersincorporating11partnersinEUandfour‘emergingpowers’.Sheis a part of a German Research Foundation Group (DGF) on localknowledge formationonclimateandenergypolicyandCo-Coordinatorof anEUProject on ‘Imagesof theEUas a global energyactor as seenthrough theeyesofBRICS’. Shehas createdvaluable contactswithkeypractitionersintheEUenergyareaandcivilsociety.

TeamRoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon,UK

Prof.BenO’Loughlin

Dr. Ben O’Loughlin is Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway,University of London. He completed his doctorate at the University ofOxford in 2005. Ben is an expert in international politicalcommunication.Hehascompletedanumberofprojectsexplaininghowpowerand influenceoperate inrelationsbetweenmedia,policymakersand publics. In recent years he has built up the theory strategicnarratives in the book StrategicNarratives: Communication Power andtheNewWorldOrder(NewYork: Routledge, 2013) and in a volume ofcase studies entitled Forging the World: Strategic Narratives andInternationalRelations(AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress,2016).Ben is co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War & Conflict. He haspublished research in leading journals including Journal ofCommunication, Journalism, International Affairs, and Review ofInternationalStudies.In2013-14hewasSpecialistAdvisortotheHouseofLordsCommitteeonSoftPowerandUKInfluenceandpublishedthereportPowerandPersuasionintheModernWorld.HisresearchonmediaandconflicthasbeensupportedbygrantsfromtheEconomicandSocialResearch Council, UK Technology Strategy Board, the Centre for theProtectionofNationalInfrastructure,theEuropeanCommissionandtheBritishCouncil.

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Prof.AlisterMiskimmon

Prof.AlisterMiskimmonisaHeadofShoolofHisoootry,PhilosophyandPoliticsattheQueen’sUniversity,Belfast,UK.Myresearchinterestsareprimarilyintheareasofstrategicnarratives,German,EuropeanandglobalsecurityissuesandEuropeanintegration.Iamcurrentlyworkingonthreeresearchprojects.ThefirstisaspartofaEU-fundedJeanMonnetNetworkresearchingcrisisnarrativesinUkraineandIsrael/Palestine.ThesecondprojectisfundedbytheNobleFoundationfocusingonPolishandUKdefencepolicyafterNATO'sWarsawsummitof2016.Thisisatwo-yearprojectinvolvingateambasedatQueen'sUniversity,RoyalHollowayandateambasedatCollegiumCivitas,Warsaw.ThethirdprojectiswiththeCharlesUniversityPrague,exploringnewtheoreticalapproachestothestudyofGermanforeignandsecuritypolicy.Ihavepublishedanumberofbooksincluding,StrategicNarratives:CommunicationPowerandtheNewWorldOrder,NewYork:Routledge,2013(withBenO'LoughlinandLauraRoselle)whichwasawardedthe2016BestBookAwardbytheInternationalCommunicationSectionoftheInternationalStudiesAssociation;ThePoliticsoftheNewGermany2ndEdition,London,Routledge(2011)(withSimonGreenandDanHough);TheGatheringCrisis:GermanyandtheGrandCoalitionsince2005,Palgrave,Basingstoke(2008)(withWilliamEPatersonandJamesSloam)andGermanyandtheCommonForeignandSecurityPolicyoftheEuropeanUnion,Basingstoke,Palgrave,Basingstoke(2007).Ialsoco-editedavolumewithBenO'LoughlinandLauraRoselleForgingtheWorld:StrategicNarrativesinInternationalRelations,whichwaspublishedbytheUniversityofMichiganPressinearly2017.

VytautasMagnusUniversity,LithuaniaProf.SarunasLiekis

Prof. Sarunas Liekis is specializing is Middle East and East CentralEuropeanAffairs.Theresearcheriscapableofconductingresearchandparticipating in the projects also to conduct applied research –providing results for academia, governmental institutions and NGO's.Prof. Šarūnas Liekis has been working at Vytautas Magnus Universitysince 2010: he is the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science andDiplomacy, member of the faculty Council, Professor at the Dept. ofPolitical Science, and member of VMU Senate.His research prioritiesinclude history, political science, minorities, religion politics, ego-documentation.HiscoursesatVMUincludeComparativePublicPolitics,Ethnicity and International Relations, Political Ideologies, etc. Prof.Liekis holds lectures, consults students, participates in the defence oftheses and dissertations at universities of Lithuania and abroad (inLund,Uppsala,Paris,Constanța,Warsaw,etc.).Prof.ŠarūnasLiekishasservedinteraliaasanexpert for theEuropeanCommission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) at the Council ofEurope(since2002)inStrasburg,France.Heisalsomemberofvarious

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workgroups of research and consulting in Lithuania and abroad. Prof.Liekis has experience inpreparation, coordination andmanagement ofscientificresearch.Inadditiontoconductingresearch,healsotakespartin exchange programmes, vocational training and qualification raisingcourses.HewasawardedresearchscholarshipsintheUSA,GreatBritainand Israel. The professor has published 2 monographs, 3 studies andover 40 scientific articles. Since 2010 Prof. Liekis is Chairman ofexecutivegroupofnationalprojectTautaIrValstybė(TheNationandtheState)undertheResearchCouncilofLithuania

KULeuven,BelgiumProf.StephanKeukeleire

Prof.StephanKeukeleireisaJeanMonnetProfessorinEuropeanIntegration and European Foreign Policy at ‘LeuvenInternational andEuropean Studies’ (LINES) of theKU Leuven(University of Leuven, Belgium), Director of its “Master ofEuropean Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives” andco-directorofits“MasterinEuropeanPoliticsandPolicies’.Heisalsotheco-ordinatoroftheJeanMonnetCentreofExcellenceon‘The EU, Foreign Policy andGlobal Governance’ in Leuven andoneoftheco-promotersoftheJeanMonnet ‘ANTERO’NetworkandoftheJeanMonnetMultilateralResearchGroupon‘TheEUas a Diplomatic Actor’. He is a visiting professor at theDepartment of EU International Relations and DiplomacyStudiesoftheCollegeofEuropeinBruges,whereheteachesthecourse“TheEUasaForeignPolicyActor”.Heisthe(co-)authorofmanypublicationsonEUforeignpolicy, includingthewidelyused textbook “The Foreign Policy of the European Union”(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 2nd ed.), which in 2015 will alsoappear in a Chinese translation. He is the coordinator of thespecializedOnlineResourceGuide“ExploringEUForeignPolicy”(www.eufp.eu).

Prof.LienVerpoest

Prof. LienVerpoest (Gent,1977)studiedSlavonic&EasternEuropean Studies (K.U. Leuven and Saint Petersburg StateUniversity)andInternationalRelations&ConflictManagement(LundUniversity, SwedenandKULeuven). ShealsoobtainedaninteruniversitaryMAinEasternEuropeanStudiesfromtheuniversities of Ghent, Brussels and Leuven. As a researchfellow at the Institute for International and European Policy(K.U. Leuven), she wrote her PhD dissertation on StateIsomorphismintheSlavicCoreoftheCIS:GeopoliticalPluralismin Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. She currently works anAssistantProfessorinSlavicandEastEuropeanStudiesatKULeuvenandteachescoursesonRussianandPolishPoliticsandSociety.HerresearchfocusesontheEastSlavicregion(Russia,UkraineandBelarus)andcoverspost-SovietforeignpolicyandEast-West relations, more in specific the relations betweendifferentregionalorganisationsontheEurasiancontinent(theEU’sEasternPartnership,theEurasianEconomicUnion,ODKB,etc).

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SpecialIssueReiewerProf.OleElgström

OleElgströmisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatLundUniversity.HehaspublishedontheEUininternationalnegotiationsandonexternalperceptionsoftheEUinjournalssuchasForeignPolicyAnalysis,theJournalofCommonMarketStudies,JournalofEuropeanPublicPolicyandEuropeanForeignAffairsReview.Heistheco-editor(withMichaelSmith)ofTheEuropeanUnion’sRolesinInternationalPolitics(Routledge2006).