Most recent RESOURCES overview
Submitted by Maastricht University on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 11:53
NORTIA aims to support colleagues in their teaching, research and outreach activities about EU foreign policy. In light of the current disruptions due to Covid-19 restrictions, we also want to highlight some of the resources that are freely available on our website:
Recordings from joint IIEA/NORTIA practitioner-academic about “The Security and Defence of Small European States: Challenges, Options and Strategies” organised by Ben Tonra (UCD)
Seminar 1 - Briefing paper “European Security Threats” by Clodagh Quain (IIEA) and Ben Tonra (UCD) synthesising the main lessons learnt during this seminar; supported by blog posts
by Kristi Raik: Balancing Weights: A view from the Baltics
by Declan Power: Mapping Threats and Models: An Irish Review
by Alexander Kmentt: The Geostrategic Challenge and the Small State: An Austrian Perspective
Seminar 2 - Briefing paper “The Contribution of Small States to European Security and Defence” by Clodagh Quain (IIEA) and Ben Tonra (UCD) synthesising the main lessons learnt during this seminar; supported by blog posts by
Hanna Ojanen: Small states contribution to security and defence: the Finnish way
Nick Witney: The Small State Advantage
Niklas Granholm: The Problems of Mortgaging Détente: The case of Sweden
Check out the recorded sessions:
Watch Keynote by Nick Witney on youtube here.
Watch the contributions by Hanna Ojanen and Niklas Granhom on youtube here.
Listen to the session on soundcloud via this podcast.
Seminar 3 - Briefing paper Strategy Building for Small States in European Security and Defence by Clodagh Quain (IIEA) and Ben Tonra (UCD) synthesising the main lessons learnt; Blog posts by
Daniel Fiott: Small can be beautiful … in defence
Heidi Maurer: When ‛small’ translates as a lack of vision and action
Sven Biscop: Small States Thinking Big
2. "What role for the High Representative post 2019", with Ana Zacarias, State Secretary of European Affairs from Portugal, David O ́Sullivan (former EU ambassador to the US), Ben Tonra (University College Dubin), and Jost-Henrik Morgenstern (University of Birmingham), chaired by Heidi Maurer. The video-recording of this roundtable is now available on youtube and as UACES podcast.
3. "50 years of European foreign policy cooperation: what is it for?” with Ben Tonra, Richard Whitman, Alexander Kmentt and Heidi Maurer at the European Studies Center, St. Anthony ́s College Oxford, 17 October 2019 is now here.
4. NORTIA 2019 guest lectures at the University of Leiden about EU politics and EU foreign policy
Decision Making in the European Union - Dr Heidi Maurer (LSE), 25 April 2018
EU migration policy in crisis - Dr Natasja Reslow (Maastricht University), 30 April 2018
Differentiated Integration: the future of Europe? - Dr Heidi Maurer (LSE), 7 May 2018
Brexit: where are we now? - Prof Richard Whitman (University of Kent), 9 May 2018
The EU´s relations with Russia - Dr Tom Casier (University of Kent Brussels), 14 May 2018
The European Parliament: What? How? Why bother? - Dr Kolja Raube (KU Leuven), 18 April 2018
