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2022 NEXTEUK PhD Summer School
What research agenda(s) for post-Brexit and post-Covid EU studies?
From 13 to 17 June NEXTEUK will organise its second Summer School in partnership with the University of London Institute in Paris, the Directorate General for Communication and the European Parliamentary Research Service, and with Maison de l’Europe de Paris. The Summer School will take place in Paris (ULIP)/Bazoches-sur Guyonne (Jean Monnet House). Participants will revisit the impact of Covid and Brexit on the EU. Debates on methodologies, theoretical challenges and empirical data will be addressed in order to fulfil what new research agendas emerge and will shape future research in the field of EU studies.
The past decade has shown that the EU has been increasingly exposed to uncertainties, unexpected events labelled as crises. In the recent years Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic have been additional tests for EU policies, polity and politics and have raised questions articulated around 7 major concepts: crisis, sovereignty, politicisation and expertise, trust, institutions, Europeanisation, unity vs. differentiated integration.
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The State of Permanent Emergency in Britain and Europe: A Student-Led Blog Series
16 February - 31 May 2022
Applications are welcome from post-graduate students from relevant fields of study. We are interested in contributors who can produce articles on these themes to discuss their effect on the EU and the UK’s responses and relations in these moments of crisis especially in the context of the pandemic.
All proposals will be peer-reviewed anonymously to enhance the quality of the research. Applications will receive feed-back within one week of receipt.
Proposals are to be sent to Agathe Piquet (a.piquet@qmul.ac.uk) and Eva Lopez (e.d.i.lopez@hss21.qmul.ac.uk).
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Ukraine - A Critical Test for the West? (Queen Mary Global Policy Institute Global Seminar)
On 3 March, the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute hosted an event titled 'Ukraine - A Critical Test for the West?' This Queen Mary Global Policy Institute Global Seminar was devoted to analysis and exchange of opinions on the critical situation in Ukraine. Our panel discussed the context of the crisis, possible solutions and whether there is any real hope of minimising a wider European conflict.
The panel of current and former diplomats, scholars of politics and international relations and specialists in international conflict resolution included:
Professor Colin Grant, Vice-Principal (International), Queen Mary University of London, Professor David Williams, Head of School, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, Gabrielle Rifkind, Director, Oxford Process, and author of " The Fog of Peace: how to prevent war," Robert Brinkley, UK Ambassador to Ukraine 2002-2006 / Chairman, Ukrainian Institute, London, Steven Pifer - US Ambassador to Ukraine, 1998-2000 / Centre for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Simon Smith CMG - UK Ambassador to Seoul, former Ambassador to Ukraine 2012-2015, and High Commissioner Raja Reza, High Commissioner of Malaysia to Brunei and former Ambassador of Malaysia to Ukraine 2018-2021
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Culture et social. Unis dans la diversité en Europe?
Le 22 Février, le Centre d'excellence Jean Monnet, NEXTEUK a co-organisé un événement dans le cadre des activités Europe Direct, sur le thème 'unis dans la diversité.' Ces questions ont été débattu:
La Conférence sur l’avenir de l’Europe permet-elle aux citoyens européens, de faire entendre leur voix ? Quel rôle pour les valeurs démocratiques européennes en Europe ? Quelle place pour nos cultures communes ? Y-a-t-il une égalité femme-homme en Europe ? Sommes-nous égaux ?
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Europe puissance. Quelles suites opérationnelles pour la politique de défense?
Le 20 Janvier, Sarah Wolff, directrice du Centre de recherche européenne et chercheuse principale au Centre d’excellence Jean Monnet, NEXTEUK (2019-2022) a modéré un débat sur ces questions:
L’Europe puissance se traduira-t-elle par une souveraineté européenne et une autonomie stratégique renforcée ? Quelle place de l’Union européenne sur le plan géostratégique et de défense ? Quelles actions du plan opérationnel et quelle collaboration avec l’OTAN ?
Avec la participation d’Emmanuel Riviere, directeur monde pour les études internationales et le conseil politique de Kantar Public et président du Centre Kantar sur le Futur de l’Europe, de Samuel B. H. Faure, maître de conférences en science politique, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, et d’Emmanuel Germond, en charge de politiques de défense au sein de la Direction générale pour l’industrie de défense et l’espace (DG DEFIS), Commission européenne.
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2022 NEXTEUK International Conference: 'Global Order and the future of EU-UK relations'
On 13 and 14 January 2022, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence NEXTEUK on the Future of EU-UK Relations (Queen Mary, University of London) hosted a two day conference which gathered academics from various disciplines interested in the topic of Global Order and the future of EU-UK relations. The academic programme was complemented by keynotes and policy events, and provided a networking opportunity between policymakers and scholars at all stages of their career.
The videos from the conference can be found below.
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Sarah Wolff, Principal investigator of NEXTEUK and Director of the Centre for European Research, Queen Mary University of London; Colin Grant, Vice Principal (International), Queen Mary University of London; and Valsamis Mitsilegas, Dean for Europe, Queen Mary University of London, opened the 2022 NEXTEUK Conference with some welcoming words.
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Opening Speeches
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Sarah Wolff, Director of the Center for European Research, NEXTEUK Principal Investigator, Queen Mary University of London, had the privilege to exchange with Sylvie Bermann, President of the Board of Directors of the IHEDN, former French Ambassador to the UK, and Menna Frances Rawlings, British Ambassador to France, about EU-UK relations.
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A Conversation with Ambassadors
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Sarah Wolff, Director of the Center for European Research, NEXTEUK Principal Investigator, Queen Mary University of London, moderated a discussion between high-level experts about the future of EU-UK security relationship: Jean-Marc Vigilant, Director, Ecole de Guerre; Alice Pannier, Head of the Geopolitics of Technology Program, IFRI; Violeta Moreno-Lax, Full Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London; Paul Taylor, Columnist for POLITICO, Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe; and Valsamis Mitsilegas, Dean for Europe, Queen Mary University of London.
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QMPGI-NEXTEUK Policy Roundtable - The Future of EU-UK Security Relationship: Re-establishing Trust
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Agathe Piquet, postdoctoral researcher and co-manager of NEXTEUK, Queen Mary University of London, moderated the presentation of EU-UK relations in 2030 made by Orlaith Rice, Univ. College Dublin, and Deborah Sabalot Deane, Victoria Univ. of Wellington. Orlaith and Deborah are two PhD candidates who, alongside the other participants to the 2021 NEXTEUK Summer School, worked on a very stimulating collective paper on the future of EU-UK relations.
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The EU-UK Relations in 2030
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New CER/NEXTEUK Blog Posts
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Contributions have been made to the Europe Matters blog.
Jacob Hickey (postgraduate researcher at Northumbria University and research assistant for NEXTEUK), wrote a blog summarising the 2022 NEXTEUK conference on the global order and the future of EU-UK relations.
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NEXTEUK Team Publications
Members of the NEXTEUK Team have recently published new articles and blog posts. They have also made contributions to the media.
Dr Sarah Wolff took part in a discussion with Prof. Jose Casanova on her new book 'Secular power Europe and Islam: Identity and Foreign Policy' hosted by the Alwaleed Centre. On 10 March, she also held a talk on religion and secularism in EU foreign policy hosted by the European Institute of the Mediterranean.
Dr Françoise Boucek was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Romney Street Group (created in 1917 under Lloyd George) on 18 January. She gave a presentation about the forthcoming French presidential election followed by Q&A from the members.
She published an article on the EUROPP blog about the French Presidential election titled ' Why it's still all to play for in the French presidential election.' She argues that French President Emmanuel Macron is widely expected to progress to the second round of voting in the French presidential election in April. However, the race to challenge Macron in the runoff remains wide open. She assesses the prospects for each of the main contenders. She also published a follow-up article on the Political Studies Association blog titled 'France's Presidential Election 2022: Macron's re-election gets a boost from the war in Ukraine.'
On 9 February, she was interviewed by Orla Barry, Europe Correspondent with The World at Public Radio International (PRI) about Valérie Pécresse, the Republicans presidential candidate for France’s presidential election in April. She was also interviewed by journalist Shafi Mussadique for the CS Monitor for an article about the deterioration of UK-French relationships published on 16 Nov 2021. She was interviewed by forThe Yale Politic, the university's journal of current events and culture, for an article about France's upcoming elections and place in the world.
Dr Stijn van Kessel has a new interview by the Illiberalism Studies Programme (Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies) on the the effect of Brexit on European populist movements, the relationship between populism and Euroscepticism, and populism in the Netherlands.
Prof. Tim Bale has co-authored a paper with Prof. Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser for UK in a Changing Europe titled 'Mainstream right in Western Europe: challenging times; trouble ahead?' He has also written an article for the Telegraph titled 'Boris's North Shropshire nightmare is eerily reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher's Eastbourne defeat.' He has also written an article for Open Democracy titled 'Your Starter for 10: Would the Tories be better off without Boris Johnson?'
Dr Stella Ladi took part in a book launch event co-hosted by UCL and LSE European Institute titled 'Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy.'
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Disclaimer: The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which only reflect the views of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use of the information contained therein.
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