IES Research - European Foreign and Security Policy

Researchers that are part of the cluster “European foreign and security policy” analyze the role of the EU as a global actor in the areas of foreign, security and defense policy. This includes the ongoing development of the EU’s institutional architecture, its evolving conflict prevention and crisis management capabilities – but also the EU’s strategic engagement with its international partners within and beyond the transatlantic space.

Senior Research Fellow Prof. Dr. Eva Gross leads the European Foreign and Security Policy research cluster that is supported by two post-doctoral researchers (Dr. Luis Simon, Alexander Mattelaer), three doctoral researchers (Gjovalin Macaj, Amelia Paduariu and Anna Stahl) and ten Associate Research Fellows (Dr. Peter Burgess, Alina Christova, Prof. Dr. Amelia Hadfield, Dr. Joachim Koops, Professor Susan Penksa, Dr. Anna Rudakowska, Dominik Tolksdorf,  Dr. Hongyu Wang, Stefanie Weil and Dr. Sigrid Winkler).

The cluster regularly organizes public events, including lecture series, workshops and policy fora in order to foster links between the research and policy communities, and the broader interested public.

Current projects

Project Researcher
EU-US cooperation in post-conflict reconstruction Eva Gross
INEX: Converging and conflicting ethical values in the internal/external security in continuum in Europe Peter Burgess / Eva Gross
Geostrategy and the EU Luis Simon
The European Union’s diplomatic engagement in the UN Human Rights Council: Assessing the Function of EU Unity Gjovalin Macaj
The EU's foreign and security policy in Africa in the context of the growing international role of China Anna Stahl
Civilian Crisis Management of the European Union in Georgia Alina Christova

Recently delivered PhDs

Planning, Friction, Strategy: The Politico-Military Dynamics of Crisis Response Operations Alexander Mattelaer
European Trade Policy Making as an Exchange of Goods between Public and Private Actors in Multilevel Networks Hongyu Wang
A question of sovereignty? EU Policies Towards Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations Sigrid Winkler

Recent Publications

  • Eva Gross (2011). The EU, the US and Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan  (in Pawlak, P. (ed.), The EU-US Security and Justice Agenda in Action. Chaillot Paper 127. Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, pp. 89-99
  • Anna Stahl (2011). The Impact of China’s Rise on the EU’s Geopolitical Reach and Interests in Africa. European Foreign Affairs Review 16: 427–446
  • Alexander Mattelaer (2011). How Afghanistan has Strengthened NATO. Survival vol 53 no. 6, pp. 127-140.
  • Dominik Tolksdorf (2011). Stuck between State- and Member State-Building Processes: the Difficulties of the European Union in Supporting the Europeanization of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS). Budapest, Central European University.
  • James Rogers and Luis Simon (2011). The new 'long telegram': why we must re-found European integration. Long Telegram No. 1.  Group on Grand Strategy.
  • Eva Gross and Alessandro Rotta (2011). The EEAS and the Western Balkans. IAI Working Paper 15. Rome: Instituto Affari Internazionali.
  • Peter J. Burgess (2011). The Ethical Subject of Security: Geopolitical Rationality and the Threat against Europe. London, Routledge.
  • Gross, E. (2011). Shifting notions of security: explaining EU policy towards the Western Balkans. In M. Foucault, B. Irondelle and F. Mérand eds., European Security Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. University of Toronto Press, 2011: 260-273
  • Koops, J. (2011). The European Union As An Integrative Power ? Brussels, VUB Press.
  • Gross, E. and Juncos, A. (2011). EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Roles, Institutions and Policies. London, Routledge
  • Simon, L. and Mattelaer, A. (2011). EUnity of Command –The Planning and Conduct of CSDP Operations. Egmont Paper 41. Brussels, January 2011

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