Brief/The Italy–France Treaty is an Example of Wise Diplomacy by Riccardo Alcaro
This JOINT Brief by JOINT Coordinator Riccardo Alcaro analyses the recent Quirinale Treaty, meant to: inject stability into a deep and often unnecessarily troubled political relationship, (slightly) rebalance Europe’s balance of power and lead to greater cohesion between Italy and France in the EU
Roundtable/What EU Foreign Policy in a more contested World? organized by CIDOB
On 25 November 2021, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) hosted a JOINT project roundtable aimed at understanding what kind of actor the European Union is becoming in a world characterised by multipolar contestation and regional fragmentation. Chair: Pol Morillas, Director, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) Panelists: Riccardo Alcaro, Senior Researcher, IAI (Istituto Affari […]
Conversation/Riccardo Alcaro and Pol Bargués on the JOINT project
Pol Bargués (Research Fellow, CIDOB- Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) and Riccardo Alcaro (JOINT Coordinator and Head of Research, IAI- Istituto Affari Internazionali), in the occasion of the November Roundtable organized by CIDOB, exchanged ideas about the core issues of our project: internal and external factors affecting and affected by EU foreign and security policy.
Workshop/JOINT WP2 Workshop on 22 November in Brussels
On 22 November 2021, JOINT members gathered in Brussels for the first WP2 Workshop “The Context of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Internal contestation, regional fragmentation and multipolar competition.” JOINT Coordinator Riccardo Alcaro and WP2 Leader Hylke Dijkstra summarize in two videos the outcomes of the workshop as well as the objectives of the project […]
Videos/Get to know our partners
During the day of JOINT WP2 Workshop, we asked the members our JOINT partner institutions to tell us more about what they think of the project and about the research work they have been doing so far. We interviewed: Hylke Dijkstra, JOINT WP2 Leader – Maastricht University (MU) Georgana Noutcheva, Associate Professor – Maastricht University […]
Paper/Collateral Damage: How EU Internal Policies Shape Crises and Conflict Abroad by Kristina Kausch
In this new JOINT Paper, Kristina Kausch, Senior Fellow with the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels office, claims that EU’s framework for conflicts in its neighbourhood emphasises traditionally external policy sectors, often leaving on side EU internal policies that shape crises and conflict abroad.
Paper/Multipolarity and EU Foreign and Security Policy: Divergent Approaches to Conflict and Crisis Response
A 53-pages Literature Review on what multipolarity means for EU crisis management and conflict response and on what future research on the topic should focus on. By Assem Dandashly, Hylke Dijkstra, Marta Marafona, Gergana Noutcheva (respectively, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Research Assistant and Associate Professor at Maastricht University) and Zachary Paikin (Researcher at the Centre […]
Brief/European Reactions to AUKUS and Implications for EU Strategic Autonomy by Marta Marafona
In this Brief, Marta Marafona, MSc in European Studies and Research Assistant H2020 Project at Maastricht University, analyses the different reactions of EU Member States and institutions to the AUKUS deal and its implications on EU strategic autonomy.
Paper/Not Yet Fit for the World: Piecemeal Buildup of EU Military, Cyber and Intelligence Assets by Kristi Raik
This new JOINT Paper by Kristi Raik, Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) analyses EU’s military, cyber and intelligence tools, to understand how they can enhance crisis and conflict management efforts.
Paper/Regional Fragmentation and EU Foreign and Security Policy by Agnès Levallois
In this JOINT Paper, Agnès Levallois, Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), explains how the EU can address regional fragmentation, highlighting how this is a significant challenge for the Union as it undermines central states’ authority and distributes it amongst other actors – including non-state armed groups.
Brief/Identity and Transitional Justice in the Horn of Africa and Libya by Jesutimilehin O. Akamo
In this JOINT Brief, Jesutimilehin O. Akamo, Researcher at the Africa Peace and Security Programme (APSP) of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), Addis Ababa University, looks at the study cases of the Horn of Africa and Libya to illustrate the nexus between identity and conflict and to prove the effectiveness of mainstreaming […]