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3/1/2017 TEPSA Newsletter December 2016 Edition http://www.tepsa.eu/?wysijapage=1&controller=email&action=view&email_id=87&wysijap=subscriptions 1/15 TEPSA Newsletter December 2016 Edition Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from TEPSA! Editorial EURussia relations: time for a reset? One of the external threats the EU is confronted with concerns the relationship with Russia. The annexation of Crimea, the interference in Eastern Ukraine and Russia’s bombardments in Syria are examples of Russian activities having a serious impact on security in Europe. As a side effect another frozen conflict – in the Donbas region has been added to the number of frozen conflicts already existing. Because of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its involvement in Eastern Ukraine, the EU has issued several restrictive measures. They concern, respectively, measures at the diplomatic level, sanctions against individuals and entities (such as rebel groups in Donbas), specific restrictions for Crimea (such as prohibitions for EU investments in that area), measures targeting sectoral cooperation (such as limited access for Russian stateowned financial institutions to the European capital markets) and suspension of new financial cooperation programs in which the European Investment Bank, for example, is involved. In return Russia proclaimed an import ban for agricultural and food products originating from the EU (plus USA, Canada, Australia and Norway). Certainly, the EU should not (in fact never) recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea. It was an act clearly violating fundamental international law principles such as independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty. That being said, most sanctions of the EU concern primarily Russia’s involvement in Eastern Ukraine. They can only be lifted once the socalled Minsk Agreements will be implemented correctly by all parties concerned, Russia included. In the meantime NATO and also the EU are engaged in reinforcing their defense capabilities. NATO has also developed a new Black Sea Strategy, and the EU ministers of foreign affairs agreed, for example, during their meeting of 14 November 2016 to deepen their defense cooperation in several respects. Perhaps, however, the moment has come to reflect on the wisdom and feasibility of such a onesided approach. Instead of putting the focus solely on the buildingup of a new military complex we could think at starting, in parallel, a new round of negotiations with Russia in order to find common grounds for new forms of cooperation. In the end Russia is an important neighbor of the EU in several respects: geographically, economically, militarily and politically. The European Union is Russia’s main trading and investment partner, and Russia is the EU’s third. Moreover, the potential for cooperation with that country is huge: the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) of 1997 for example referred to the four common spaces, i.e. i) economy and environment; ii) freedom, security and justice; iii) external security; and iv) research, education and culture.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Yearfrom TEPSA!
Editorial
EURussia relations: time for a reset?
One of the external threats the EU is confronted with concerns the relationship with Russia. The annexation ofCrimea, the interference in Eastern Ukraine and Russia’s bombardments in Syria are examples of Russian activitieshaving a serious impact on security in Europe. As a side effect another frozen conflict – in the Donbas region hasbeen added to the number of frozen conflicts already existing.
Because of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its involvement in Eastern Ukraine, the EU has issued severalrestrictive measures. They concern, respectively, measures at the diplomatic level, sanctions against individuals andentities (such as rebel groups in Donbas), specific restrictions for Crimea (such as prohibitions for EU investments inthat area), measures targeting sectoral cooperation (such as limited access for Russian stateowned financialinstitutions to the European capital markets) and suspension of new financial cooperation programs in which theEuropean Investment Bank, for example, is involved. In return Russia proclaimed an import ban for agricultural andfood products originating from the EU (plus USA, Canada, Australia and Norway).
Certainly, the EU should not (in fact never) recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea. It was an act clearly violatingfundamental international law principles such as independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty. That being said,most sanctions of the EU concern primarily Russia’s involvement in Eastern Ukraine. They can only be lifted oncethe socalled Minsk Agreements will be implemented correctly by all parties concerned, Russia included.
In the meantime NATO and also the EU are engaged in reinforcing their defense capabilities. NATO has alsodeveloped a new Black Sea Strategy, and the EU ministers of foreign affairs agreed, for example, during their meetingof 14 November 2016 to deepen their defense cooperation in several respects.
Perhaps, however, the moment has come to reflect on the wisdom and feasibility of such a onesided approach.Instead of putting the focus solely on the buildingup of a new military complex we could think at starting, in parallel, anew round of negotiations with Russia in order to find common grounds for new forms of cooperation. In the endRussia is an important neighbor of the EU in several respects: geographically, economically, militarily and politically.The European Union is Russia’s main trading and investment partner, and Russia is the EU’s third. Moreover, thepotential for cooperation with that country is huge: the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) of 1997 forexample referred to the four common spaces, i.e. i) economy and environment; ii) freedom, security and justice; iii)external security; and iv) research, education and culture.
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Moreover, the restrictive measures taken by the EU and Russia mentioned earlier have not blocked all channels ofcommunication and trade. On the contrary, the measures the European Union has issued are specifically targetedand leave, by the way in our own interest as well, sectoral cooperation – energy being an important example open.
In this context Donald Trump’s election in the US and the designation of ExxonMobil’s boss Rex Tillerson as hisSecretary of State – the latter has been presented as a personal friend of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shouldbe taken into account. These are circumstances which we cannot simply ignore.
Overall one thing, however, should be clear. Before making new gestures towards Russia and, for example,abolishing the EU sanctions related to the unrest in Eastern Ukraine, that country has to demonstrate its respect forthe Minsk Agreements. Russia should also lift its own agricultural sanctions. As to Crimea, apparently more time isneeded to find a way out of that crisis.
Of course one should reflect on the question of what we want to achieve in resetting our relationship with Russia. Fora long time the creation of an EURussia free trade area, as a means of implementation of the 1997 PCA, has been atopic on the agenda. Since Russia has become a WTO member in 2012, that objective indeed seemed to be afeasible one. However, since the start of the functioning of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2015 (apart fromthe Russian Federation, its member states are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan) it looks as if the EUhas to deal with the EEU as a contracting partner. A not that attractive perspective because, on the one hand, theEEU is a customs union of its own and, on the other, because one of the EEU member states – Belarus is not aWTO member.
Nonetheless, something has to be done. In an era full of external threats and challenges we cannot go on by onlycreating new obstacles in our relationship with Russia. A more constructive vision, albeit a conditional one, seems tobe indicated. Such a new approach can only contribute to (more) stability on our continent, in the interest of bothEuropean and Russian citizens. In that respect the turmoil of the last years in the Eastern Partnership region notonly in Ukraine, but also in Georgia and Moldova for example have illustrated that the European NeighborhoodPolicy could probably have been better developed with the Russian Federation participating right from the start as anequal partner.
Jaap de Zwaan, TEPSA SecretaryGeneral
Introducing a TEPSA Member InstituteIntroducing the Center forComparative and InternationalStudies Zurich, Switzerland (CIS)The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)is a joint research and teaching center of ETH Zurich (the
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News from the TEPSA SecretariatWelcome to TEPSA’s New BoardTEPSA’s General Assembly elected a new Board during the PrePresidencyConference that took place in Valletta on 1011 November 2016. The new Boardwill be composed, in an alphabetic order, by Katrin BOTTGER (Institut fürEuropäische Politik), Michele CHANG (College of Europe), Yakup Atila ERALP
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Recommendations from members of theTEPSA network to the incoming MaltesePresidency, November 2016On the occasion of the first Maltese EU Council Presidency starting onJanuary 1st 2017, TEPSA held its traditional PrePresidency Conference inValletta on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016. The Conference,organised in cooperation with and hosted by the Institute for European Studiesof the University of Malta, was part of the longstanding tradition of TEPSA’sPrePresidency Conferences (PPCs), …
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TEPSA's collaboration with POLITICO for theEU Studies FairTEPSA will be a partner of the 18th edition of POLITICO’s EU Studies Fair takingplace on February 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hotel Crowne Plaza lePalace, Brussels. Some of the world’s best academic institutions will showcasetheir Master’s programs in EU studies, international relations, business, law,public policy and economics. To find out more and to …
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News about TEPSA projectsTEPSA PrePresidency Conferencein Valletta, 1011 November 2016On the occasion of the first Maltese EU Council Presidencystarting on January 1st 2017, TEPSA held its traditional PrePresidency Conference in Valletta on Thursday 10 andFriday 11 November 2016. The Conference, organised incooperation with and hosted by the Institute for European
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Study for the European Parliament:“Monitoring the implementation ofthe Sustainable Development Goals The role of the data revolution”, byNeil WEBSTER and Helle MunkRAVNBORGTEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE),authored by Neil WEBSTER and Helle Munk RAVNBORG, Senior Researchers at the Danish Institute forInternational Studies (DIIS). The study deals with “Monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals The role of the data revolution” and examines the transition from monitoring the Millennium DevelopmentGoals to monitoring …
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European Parliament workshop on“Afghanistan Challenges andperspectives until 2020”TEPSA coordinated the participation of Dr Mona KanwalSheikh (Danish Institute for International Studies) and Dr ArneStrand (Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies ) in a
European Parliament workshop on “Afghanistan Challenges and perspectives until 2020”. The workshop washosted by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Committee on Development (DEVE)and the Delegation for relations …
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Presentation of the PONT –Career Skills Training held at theInstitute for development andinternational relations (IRMO) An informative presentation on the PONT CareerSkills Training was held on the 4th of November 2016 at the Institute for development and international relations(IRMO). The PONT Career Skills Training was organized by the Trans European Policy Studies Association(TEPSA) in the framework of the Professional Training on EU Affairs – PONT project, cofunded by theERASMUS+/Jean Monnet Programme …
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New FEUTURE publication: WorkingPaper "Mapping periods andmilestones of past EUTurkeyrelations"
Authors: HannaLisa Hauge (University of Cologne), Wolfgang Wessels (University of Cologne), Nurdan Selay Bedir(Middle East Technical University), Atila Eralp (Middle East Technical University) This Working Paper aims to embedFEUTURE’s analysis of drivers of EUTurkey relations in a historical context. It does so by outlining and discussingseveral narratives which represent influential interpretations of EUTurkey relations at different times in history. …
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New FEUTURE publication:Background Paper "Turkey and theEuropean Union: Scenarios for2023", by Nathalie Tocci (IAI)F|EU|TU|RE – The Future of EUTurkey Relations –analyses the past, present and future drivers of the EUTurkey relationship. In order to navigate the possible future,a compass is necessary. This paper establishes this compass by imagining, delineating and systematizing threereference scenarios in order to organize subsequent research and eventually map out a most likely “feuture”.Drawing from Schwartz, …
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FEUTURE's Newsletter No. 2 |October 2016
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FEUTURE's Newsletter No. 2 was published in October2016 and is available here. The “FEUTURE – The Futureof EUTurkey Relations. Mapping Dynamics and Testing
Scenarios” project, officially launched on 1 April 2016, is a TEPSA project on EUTurkey relations that will last forthree years (from 1 April 2016 till 30 March 2019). Thanks to its broad consortium made up of …
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PONT "Working Europe Seminar" 2:Climate, Energy and Environment PolicyTEPSA will organise its second Working Europe Seminar in the week of17 March 2017 in the framework of its ERASMUS+/Jean Monnetproject PONT (Professional Training on EU Affairs). During a 5dayseminar in Brussels, at the heart of EU politics, students will enjoy firsthand insights from researchers, EU practitioners and officials on currenttop priorities of the EU policies and politics …
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FEUTURE Online Paper SeriesThe FEUTURE Online Paper Series has been launchedwith a first contribution by IAI visiting researcher BilgeYabanci. In her paper “The future of EUTurkey relations:between mutual distrust and interdependency” shediscusses current political and social developments in
Turkey and takes stock of the recent EUlevel and regional developments under positive, negative and unfoldingtrends. Download here.
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Joint Workshop of FEUTURE WorkPackages 2/4 “Power: Political andsecurity drivers”On November 3 & 4 2016 the FEUTURE Work Packages“Political Drivers” and “Security Drivers” concluded thefirst round of joint workshops of work packagetandems. Upon the invitation of EDAM (leader of Work Package 4)about 20 researchers convened at Sabanci University to discuss and frame their research in light of the crosscutting issue “power”. For more information see here.
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The FEUTURE Consortiumwelcomes two new partnersThe FEUTURE Consortium would like to warmly welcomeThe American University in Cairo and Sabanci Universityas new partners in the FEUTURE project! More TheAmerican University in Cairo (AUC) is an independent and
private institution, fully accredited in Egypt and the United States. From AUC, we welcome Dr. Marco Pinfari, JustineLouis and Dr. Shaimaa Magued to the …
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The final report of the 2016 PONT CareerSkills Training I is out!
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The full report on the 2016 edition of the PONT Career Skills Traininghas been issued. In the framework of the Professional Training onEU Affairs – PONT project, cofunded by the ERASMUS+/JeanMonnet programme, TEPSA organised a fiveday ‘Career SkillsTraining’ on EU affairs for postgraduate students and youngresearchers on 1721 October 2016, with a particular focus on …
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News from TEPSA Member InstitutesJohn Pinder: An Intellectual Leader in PoliticsJOHN PINDER LECTURE 2016 The pdf version of the lecture is available onThe Federal Trust website. John Pinder Lecture, held on 10th November2016, by Professor Roderick Pace TEPSA PrePresidency Conference“Restoring Faith in the EU” in Malta John Pinder brought much wisdom to theEuropean integration project and when he passed away last year all who knewhim or …
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From Broadening to Managing the Ruleof Law Agenda The Clingendael Institute organised, together with the TransEuropean Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), an expert lunchworkshop 'From Broadening to Managing the Rule of Law Agenda'in Brussels on Tuesday December 6. The EU is currentlyattempting to get a better grip on the rule of law with variousinitiatives. The latest is the European Parliament’s proposal of aUnion …
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News from Sciences Po, Centred’études européennes Prizes Abdelkarim Amengay obtains the prestigious JosephArmandBomb Canada Graduate Scholarship This scholarship,valued at 75,000 euros over three years, aims to developresearch skills by supporting students who have achievedexcellent results in their undergraduate and graduate studies in
the humanities and who demonstrate an excellent Research potential. Nicolas Leron received the Prix de ThèsePierre PFLIMLIN An accessit has …
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News from IAIVincenzo Camporini, IAI Vice President and formerItalian Chief of Defence General Staff, was nominatedmember of the Senior Expert Group (SEG),established to advise NATO in the reorganisation ofAllied Commands.
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News from the Institute forDevelopment and InternationalRelations (IRMO) Zagreb IRMO is a partner on the Interreg Central Europe projectRESTAURA ‘’Revitalising Historic buildings through Public
Private Partnership Schemes’’ (6/2016 – 5/2019). The project is coordinated by the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Polandwhile IRMO participates as one of the nine project partners from 4 CE countries (Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia andCroatia). The lack of financial resources of most of the …
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News from the Institute ofWorld Economics Centre forEconomic and RegionalStudies Hungarian Academyof Sciences (IWE CERS HAS)Between 810 September 2016 on 14th Biannual Conference of EACES European Association for ComparativeEconomic Studies Ágnes Szunomár (research fellow, head of research group on Development Economics of IWECERS HAS) was elected secretary of EACES in Regensburg.
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News from Centre of InternationalRelations, Faculty of Social Sciences,University of Ljubljana, SloveniaAnže Burger from CIR Elected as the New NationalRepresentative for Slovenia in EIBA Board after Andreja JakličCompleted her Term at the EIBA 2016 Conference in Vienna 2–4 December 2016, Vienna University of Economics andBusiness, Vienna Andreja Jaklič, Anže Burger, Marjan Svetličič
and Iris Koleša from the Centre of International Relations (CIR), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of …
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News from the Institute of International Affairs atthe University of IcelandOpening of HÖFÐI Reykjavík Peace Centre at the University of Iceland TheUniversity of Iceland and the City of Reykjavik launched Höfði Reykjavik PeaceCentre on October 7, 2016. The opening seminar entitled Rethinking Peace andPower was held in the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Iceland, with openingremarks by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland. Amongst other …
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News from the Institute ofInternational RelationsPrague
The Director of the Institute of International Relations Prague Elected to the Board of TEPSA The Institute ofInternational Relations Prague is proud to announce that its director Petr Kratochvíl has been elected to the Board ofthe Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA). Dr. Kratochvíl is the first representative of a Czechinstitution to become a member of the …
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News from the Latvian Institute ofInternational AffairsDuring the last month, LIIA team was working on several kinds ofdifferent projects, including presentation of our newestpublications. Two of them were: “Euro scepticism in Small EUMember States” as well as: “Coping with Complexity in the EuroAtlantic Community and Beyond: Riga Conference Papers 2016”.This Riga Conference companion volume offers reflections onthe complex developments and future …
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News from the Federal Trustfor Education and ResearchMay’s Rocky Road Ahead: Why Brexit May NotHappen In this Occasional Paper published by
Social Europe Brendan Donnelly, former MEP and Director of the Federal Trust, argues that the triggering of Article50 will not be the of the end of the Brexit story. Mrs May is likely to face over the next two years growing obstacles inher …
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News from outside the TEPSA NetworkIn memoriam of Baron Philippe deSchoutheete de TervarenPhilippe de Schoutheete's life and work document a historicalperiod – significant for the integration process of Europe overall.More than just by his skills as diplomat he was also a model for theintensive and productive cooperation between those with practicalresponsibilities for EU policies and politics, and us in the ivorytower, responsible for proper academic research and teaching. …
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Upcoming events at TEPSA MemberInstitutes
Upcoming events at SciencesPo, Centre d’étudeseuropéennesSéminaire général du CEE January 17, 2017Speaker: Desmond King, Nuffield College, University
of Oxford January 31, 2017 Speaker: Nicolas Lupo, LUISS, “Mechanisms and Challenges of ParliamentaryDemocracy in Europe” February 21, 2017 Speaker: Alan Finlayson, UEA, “Performance Rites: Rhetoric, Public
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Speech and Contemporary Democracy” February 28, 2017 Speaker: Daniel Stockemer, Université d'Ottawa “TheEurovision Song Contest …
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Upcoming events at the LatvianInstitute of International AffairsThe “Latvian Foreign and Security Policy Yearbook 2017” willbe presented on 18.01.2017, (the venue will be announcedlater)
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Past events at TEPSA MemberInstitutes
Past events at The Swedish Institute ofInternational AffairsNovember 8th, 2016 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs(UI) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, arranged aseminar focusing on the countries which are part of the EU:sEastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,Moldova, and Ukraine. What is the current political and economicdevelopment in these countries? What is the role of the EU and
Russia in …
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Past events at thePortuguese Institute ofInternational Relations (IPRI)Kickoff meeting of the research project “Democracy in Times of Crisis: Power and Discourse in a ThreeLevelGame”, 11 and 12 November 2016, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon Themeeting formally launched the research project coordinated by Catherine Moury and hosted by the PortugueseInstitute of International Relations (IPRI)/ NOVA University of Lisbon. The international …
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Past events at Sciences Po,Centre d’études européennesNovember 29, 2016 Streaming of the debate “Pousséedes droites extrêmes en Europe : partout, les mêmesingrédients ?” organized by Sciences Po, CEE and Revue
Projet In French: Les idées d’extrême droite ne cessent de progresser, dans les discours et dans les urnes. EnFrance, le Front national perce y compris parmi les jeunes, les fonctionnaires, les femmes, les …
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Past events at Elcano Royal Institute
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21.09.2016 – Seminar ‘’Energy Perspectives in Europe andthe United States following the COP21’’. Organized by theU.S. Chamber of Commerce in Spain (AmChamSpain) andElcano Royal Institute. A conference with the goal ofanalyzing energy prospects in Europe and the U.S. in light ofCOP21 in Paris. 24.10.2016 – Debate ‘’USA 2016: an atypical electoral process’’. Organized by Elcano …
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Past events at IAI12 December, Rome, “Implementing the EU GlobalStrategy”. The Mercator European Dialogue’s workshop onthe implementation of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) isorganised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in
cooperation with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB). The workshop will create a room for dialogueand exchange of views with EU and national officials involved in the …
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Past events at the Institute ofWorld Economics Centre forEconomic and RegionalStudies (IWE CERS HAS)Events, conferences and presentations 22 Sept. 2016 IWE CERS HAS – Budapest The political economy of theEastern European regime change in the mirror of world system theories. Lecture by Tamás Gerőcs followed bydebate (In Hungarian) 30 Sept. 2016 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest Within the frames of ‘Night ofthe researchers’ series, Erzsébet N. Rózsa held …
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Past events on EUChinarelations at the College ofEuropeSeminar: “China’s Belt & Road Initiative and EUChina Relations” 20 October 2016, European
Parliament, Brussels The Baillet Latour Chair of EUChina Relations and the EUChina Research Centre, College ofEurope, Bruges, organised a seminar on China’s Belt & Road Initiative. This initiative, which will have a strong impacton both Chinese domestic development and external relations in the coming decades, …
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Past events at Centre ofInternational Relations,Faculty of Social Sciences,University of Ljubljana,Slovenia Round Tables: “Europeanization of Western Balkans” 3 and 15 November 2016, Faculty of Social Sciences,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia On 3 and 15 November 2016, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljanahosted two DirectorateGeneral for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) sponsored events onEuropeanization of Western Balkans (WB). Nearly 30 participants, predominantly MA and BA students of European…
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Past events at the Institute of International
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Past events at the Institute of InternationalAffairs at the University of IcelandConference: “Rethinking Peace and Power: The Opening of HÖFÐI ReykjavikPeace Centre” 7 October 2016, Ceremonial Hall, University of Iceland TheUniversity of Iceland and the City of Reykjavik launched Höfði ReykjavikPeace Centre on October 7 2016. The opening seminar entitled RethinkingPeace and Power was held in the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Iceland,with opening remarks by Mr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, …
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Past events at the Institute ofInternational RelationsPragueConference: “The Prague Agenda 2016“, 12 December 2016, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic,Czernin Palace, Prague The Centre for European Security of the Institute of International Relations Prague incooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Charles University in Prague, MetropolitanUniversity Prague, Parliamentarians for Nuclear NonProliferation and Disarmament and the PragueVision organized…
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Past events at Latvian Institute ofInternational AffairsPublic discussion: “Eastern Partnership One Year After Riga:Where Next? Insights from Latvia, Georgia, Moldova, andUkraine”, September 21, Riga Graduate School of Law. TheRiga Eastern Partnership summit that took place more than oneyear ago reconfirmed the importance of the Eastern Partnershipas an initiative for closer engagement between the European
Union and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, …
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Past events at Institute ofInternational Relations andPolitical Science of VilniusUniversity 8th GermanNordicBaltic Forum “German, Nordic and Baltic Views on the Futureof the EU: Common Challengesand Common Answers” Date 1718 November 2016, venue Institute of International Relations and Political Science ofVilnius University, Vilnius On 17 and 18 November 2016 Institute of International Relations and Political Science ofVilnius University (IIRPS VU) together with the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) …
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Past events at IEPGermanNordicBaltic Forum 2016 On 17 and 18November 2016 the 8th GermanNordicBaltic
Forum was held. It took place at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science and brought togetherover 40 participants from political and academic spheres from all three Baltic States as well as from Sweden, Finland,Denmark, Poland and Germany to investigate the topic „German, Nordic and …
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Publications from TEPSA MemberInstitutes
Recent publications from The SwedishInstitute of International AffairsBicchi, F. & Bremberg, N. (2016) European Diplomatic Practices:Contemporary Challenges and Innovative Approaches. EuropeanSecurity. 25:4, 2016: 391406. Bremberg, N. (2016) MakingSense of the EU?s Response to the Arab Uprisings: ForeignPolicy Practice at Times of Crisis. European Security. 25:4, 2016:423441. Borg, S. & Bremberg, N. (2016) Powerless Europe?Global Affairs.Published online: 28 October, 2016: 13. SchmidtFelzmann, …
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Recent publications fromSciences Po, Centre d’étudeseuropéennesLes Cahiers européens de Sciences PoDAGEFÖRDE, Mirjam. Concepts of Congruenceand European’s evaluation of representation. A
microlevelanalysis. Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po n°03/2016. SCHMIDT, Vivien A. The Crisis of EuropeanUnion Studies seen From the US: EU Studies are ‘Widening’ and ‘Deepening’ even as EU Theories of Widening andDeepening are in crisis. Les Cahiers européens de Sciences …
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Recent publications from theCollege of Europe, BrugesGstöhl, Sieglinde and Simon Schunz (eds),Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy,Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 9781138204799. Despite growing scholarly interest in the EU’s flagship policy towards its Eastern and Southern neighbours, seriousattempts at theorybuilding on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have been largely absent from theacademic debate. This book aims at contributing to fill this research gap …
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Recent Publications from ElcanoRoyal InstituteAnalyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI) An agenda for thefuture of the European Union: addressing citizens’ expectationsElcano Royal Institute – 15.09.2016 The EU leaders meetingin Bratislava on 16 September face a challenging, not to sayhostile, environment. Responding to people’s fundamental
concerns will simultaneously help member states and enhance the value of the EU for its citizens. European Strategyin times …
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Recent publications from theFinnish Institute forInternational AffairsReports Juha Pyykönen: Nordic Partners of NATO: How similar are Finland and Sweden within NATO cooperation?Mika Aaltola, Christian Fjäder, Eeva Innola, Juha Käpylä, Harri Mikkola: Huoltovarmuus muutoksessa: Kansallisenvarautumisen haasteet kansainvälisessä toimintaympäristössä FIIA Analysis Katja Creutz: International Law underPressure: Continued relevance in times of hardship Working Paper Veera Laine: Stateled Nationalism in Today’sRussia: Uniting the people with …
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Recent publications from IAITen new reports on European Union by the IstitutoAffari Internazionali – IAI, SeptemberDecember2016 Italy’s Role in Europe under Renzi, by EttoreGreco, (Documenti IAI 16|20) December 2016, 9 p.
The Renzi government has pursued two main and interconnected objectives within the EU: the defence andpromotion of Italy’s role, not least in response to the everlooming risk of …
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Recent publications from theInstitute of WorldEconomics Centre for Economicand Regional Studies HungarianAcademy of Sciences (IWECERS HAS)Annamária Artner: The world economy before and after Brexit. In: KözGazdaság, Vol. 10, No. 3 (October 2016) pp.2542. István Kőrösi: The renewability of the social market economy in the European Union. In: Kritische Zeiten, Vol.7, Nos. 12, (JanuaryJuly 2016) pp. 219. István Kőrösi: Factors of the economic catchingup of Hungary, thecountries of the Carpathian Basin and …
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Recent publications fromCentre of InternationalRelations, Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaMarko Lovec, European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms, September 2016 This book engages in thecontroversies of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these arereiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. Udovič, Boštjan et al., The Impact of Stereotypes onCooperation in Western Balkans, November 2016 In the special issue of Theory and Practice …
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Recent Publications from theInstitute of InternationalRelations PragueMark Galeotti, Hybrid War or Hybridnaya Voina? Getting Russia’s Nonlinear Military Challenge Right, November2016 The West is at war. Not a war of the old sort, fought with the thunder of guns, but a new sort, fought with the
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rustle of money, the shrill mantras of propagandists, and the stealthy whispers of spies. Often described as a ‘hybridwar,’ …
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Recent publications from LatvianInstitute of International AffairsEd. by Karlis Bukovskis. “Euroscepticism in Small EU MemberStates”. Riga: Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2016. 160p. The book “Euroscepticism in Small EU Member States” is aneffort by an international team of analysts to address theEuroscepticism phenomenon in small European Union MemberStates. It draws the general conclusions that the observed small
countries of different …
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Recent publications from IEP“Yearbook of European Integration 2016” will bepublished in December The “Yearbook onEuropean Integration 2016” will be published in December 2016, in times of multiple crises as well as growingEuroscepticism and populism in Europe. A special focus of this year’s edition will be on the exit of Great Britain fromthe EU and tendencies of renationalisation and also …
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Public Consultation of the EuropeanCommission
Open Public Consultation on the InterimEvaluation of the Union Civil ProtectionMechanismThe main purpose of the Interim Evaluation is to assess theimplementation and performance of Decision No 1313/2013/EU of theEuropean Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 whichestablishes a Union Civil Protection Mechanism ("Union Mechanism").
The Evaluation will provide a clear indication of whether the general and specific objectives of the Union Mechanismare being met. …
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