CfP: NORTIA panel proposals for EUSA 2019

Submitted by Maastricht University on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 20:17

CfP: Contesting European Foreign Policy Cooperation: Rules, Norms and Practices 

NORTIA-Panel Proposal for EUSA, 9-11 May 2019 in Denver, section “Europe in the World”

NORTIA, the Jean-Monnet Network on Research and Teaching in EU Foreign Affairs is aiming to organize panel proposals for the 2019 EUSA conference in Denver. We are looking for contributors, who apply lessons learned from 50 years of foreign policy cooperation to the challenges of a potentially fragmenting global order and Europe’s own existential crises. We aim to bring together scholars with different methodological, conceptual and empirical perspectives, ensuring a mix of senior and early career scholars, in order to investigate the internal and external forces shaping EU foreign policy cooperation.

European foreign policy cooperation has evolved considerably during the past 50 years, both institutionally and procedurally. Various treaties institutionalized supporting structures like the High Representative or the European External Action Service to ensure a smoother cooperation between EU member states. Simultaneously, since the financial crisis in 2008, we have observed a return of nationalist and populist sentiments in response to globalisation that challenge the very idea of European cooperation. Are those dynamics leading to de-Europeanisation or rather to a more focused enhanced cooperation in EU foreign policy? Contestation of European foreign policy also comes from within the EU institutional framework. What role does the increasingly institutionalized EU foreign policy system (High Representative, EEAS, EU delegations) play in those developments? Outside of the EU borders, a more challenging and contesting international environment manifests its impact in the call for a more goal-oriented and interest-driven foreign policy, as illustrated in the EU Global Strategy 2016. Where does the Union and its member states situate themselves in a period of flux with rising (China), problematic (Russia) or newly erratic (USA) powers?

Please send your proposal including title, abstract (300 words) by 19 September 2018 to heidrun.maurer@politics.ox.ac.uk.

Authors will be informed by 26 September (final official submission deadline 1 October).

!!! EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS BURSARIES AVAILABLE !!!

NORTIA aims to assist early career scholars in attending major professional conferences. We are therefore pleased to be offer up to five bursaries for early career scholars (PhD students + < 5 years after PhD), if they are selected on a NORTIA panel. 

In order to participate in the competitive selection for these NORTIA bursaries, please include a short motivation note (250 words) in your paper proposal submission.