Doctoral students: to your feathers…
(BRUSSELS2) Irsem - the Institute for Strategic Research of the Military School - and the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po Paris have launched a call for contributions from doctoral students around the theme "The EU as a Global Actor: Europe and the use of force". A selection set up since 2010 - under the direction of Frédéric Charillon (IRSEM) and Zaki Laïdi (Sciences Po, CEE) - and which aims to produce "an exchange of ideas" and to submit the fruit of his research "between peers". The doctoral seminar will be organized in Paris on June 27 and 28, 2013. And the prize awarded, on this occasion. It is indeed a prize for the student and "no to the academic institution to which he belongs" is it specified. Europeans and foreigners are "warmly encouraged to submit their production". This must, of course, be original. Deadline for submitting the abstract and CV: April 15. Successful candidates will be notified at the end of April. Deadline for submitting the final paper: June 15, 2013. The work must be submitted in English. And so is the announcement...
Since 2010, IRSEM - French Institute of Strategic Research, in partnership with the Center for European Studies - Sciences Po (CEE), have been running a yearly joint doctoral seminar on the theme “The EU as a Global Actor”. This year the theme is “Europe and the use of force”. The workshop is open to PhD students in order to enable young researchers to exchange ideas and discuss their research findings with peers and senior colleagues. Candidates should certify that their presentation is an original one. Non-French students are warmly invited to apply.
The theme: "Europe and the use of force"
Is the EU a global actor? How does Europe cope with its external action? Is there a specific European Foreign policy / external action security regime, within or without the EU? How do Europeans – within EU member states or more widely – combine national and collective initiatives to take action beyond the borders of Europe? This workshop aims to explore these issues with respect to the use of force.
Europe has often seemed to avoid any massive military engagements involving serious battlefield operations, acted as a free rider on US security guarantees, or opted to fade from the frontline of power politics. Is Europe - as a collective actor under the EU banner – reluctant, or even allergic, to the use of force in international relations? From the early hopes in the 1990s that the Maastricht provisions would create a new power from a Common Foreign and Security Policy, to more recent debates on Europe as a normative power, there are many reasons to question whether the European Union is unwilling or unable to manage the use of hard power.
The convenors particularly invite papers focusing on (but not limited to) the following themes: the role of the EU during recent crises (including the relations between member states, the EU and NATO for instance in the face of the Libyan crisis); European attitudes towards the Syrian or Malian crises; the EU and/or EU member states and the UN Security Council; industrial cooperation in the field of defense (either bilaterally such as for instance between France and the UK, or Europe-wide). This list of suggestions is not exhaustive and papers addressing the theme “Europe and the use of force” from other angles or perspectives are equally welcome.
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