Eva.Gross

Personal information

Title

Prof. Dr.

First name

Eva

Last name

Gross

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Eva Gross joined the IES as Senior Research Fellow for European Foreign and Security Policy in January 2007. At the IES, she heads the research cluster 'EU foreign and security policy'. She also coordinates the University of Southern California (USC) Brussels Program 'Contemporary Issues in European Foreign and Security Policy'.

Current research projects include transatlantic cooperation in post-conflict reconstruction; the EU's contribution to security sector reform in Afghanistan; the ongoing development of European crisis management policies; and the EU's engagement with the emerging powers.

Other research interests include the role of the EU as a global actor, the Europeanization of national foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations, and EU conflict prevention and crisis management policies, particularly towards the Western Balkans and Afghanistan.

Eva Gross holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies (2008), the Center for European Policy Studies/CEPS (2006) and CERI Sciences Po (2005). In 2005/06 Eva Gross was a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Program of the VolkswagenStiftung, Germany, the Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin and the Rijksbanken Jubilaeumsfond, Stockholm.

Eva Gross is a former editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies (volume 32) and former Associate Production Manager of the European Journal of International Relations (February 2004-December 2006), both at the LSE, where she was also a class teacher at the Department of International Relations.

IES information

Department Category

Senior Research Fellows

Position

European Foreign and Security Policy

Phone

+32(0)2/629.1562

Fax

+32(0)2/629.1809

Activities, publications

List of External Publications

Books

The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy. Continuity and Change in European Crisis Management. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Edited Books

Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Missions in the Balkans. CEPS Paperback (with Michael Emerson), 2007. Accessible via: http://www.ceps.eu/node/1368

Journal Articles

Reconstructing Afghanistan: Is the 'West' eclipsing the 'International Community'? Security and Peace (2) 2009: 79-83

Germany and European Security and Defense Cooperation: the Europeanization of national crisis management policies? Security Dialogue 38 (4) 2007: 501-520.

Squaring the Circle? Leadership and Legitimacy in European Security and Defence Cooperation (with Bastian Giegerich,) International Politics 43 (4) 2006.

Policy reports, articles and working papers

Systemic report on the value premises and human, ethical consequences of the CFSP/ESDP in the changing environment of border security. Deliverable for FP7 Project Converging and Conflicting Ethical Values in the Internal/External Security Continuum in Europe (INEX). Accessible via: http://www.inexproject.eu/index.php

Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: the EU's contribution. Occasional Paper 78. Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, April 2009. Accessible via: http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/op78.pdf

Afghanistan: Europe's credibility test (with Shada Islam). Policy Brief. Brussels, European Policy Centre, March 2009. Accessible via: http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/60505381_Afghanistan.pdf

EU and the Comprehensive Approach. DIIS Report 2008:13. Copenhagen, Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008. Accessible via: http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/Reports%202008/R2008-13_EU_and_the_Comprehensive_Approach.pdf

Europe's Growing Engagement in Afghanistan: What Success for ESDP? CFSP Forum 5 (4): 11-14. July 2007.

The EU in Afghanistan: what role for EU crisis management and conflict prevention policies? CFSP Forum 4 (4): 11-14 July 2006.


Chapter contributions

The EU in Afghanistan: Peacebuilding in a Conflict Setting. In Blockmans, S., Wouters, J. and Ruys, T. (eds.), The European Union and Peacebuilding: Policy and Legal Aspects. The Hague, T.M.C. Asser Press 2010, pp. 295 - 312.

Operation CONCORDIA (fYROM). In Giovanni Grevi, Damien Helly and Daniel Keohane (eds.), European Security and Defence Policy: The First 10 Years (1999-2009). Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, October 2009, pp. 173-180. Accessible via: http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/ESDP_10-web.pdf

EU crisis management in the Western Balkans. In S. Blockmans (ed.), The European Union and International Crisis Management: legal and policy aspects. The Hague, T.M.C. Asser Press 2008.

Introduction (with Michael Emerson). In Emerson and Gross, Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Missions in the Balkans. CEPS Paperback, 2007: 1-16.

Civilian and Military Missions in the Western Balkans. In Emerson and Gross, Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Missions in the Balkans. CEPS Paperback, 2007: 115-137.

EU Foreign Policy towards the Balkans. In C. Musu and N. Casarini eds., The Road Towards Convergence: European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System. Palgrave, 2007: 97-111.

Conference Papers/Lectures:

The EU and the BRICs. Paper presented at ECPR Fifth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Porto 23-25 June 2010

Lessons learned from CSDP missions in South Eastern Europe. Lecture delivered at the DCAF Young Faces Conference 2010: "Peace Support Operations and the European Union", Brussels 5 May 2010

The Role of the European Union and Nation States in Afghanistan. Panelist at German French Seminar 2010: "Afghanistan: A Regional Crisis?" Bundesakademie fuer Sicherheitspolitik (BAKS), Berlin 26 April 2010

The role of the EU in Afghan SSR. Presentation at German Canadian workshop 'Security Governance by Comprehensive Approach? NATO and the International Community at the Afghan Crossroads', Hamburg, 26 March 2010

Conflict Prevention/Peacebuilding and the European External Action Service. Speaker at European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) roundtable, Brussels, 8 February 2010

Transatlantic Relations and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Towards Strategic Alignment? The Case of Afghanistan. Paper presented at the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) 11th Biennial International Conference. Marina Del Rey, California, April 25, 2009

Development, Neighbourhood, and Enlargement (2-day module). Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po). Nancy, 9-10 January 2009

(The day) After the US Presidential Elections: Prospects for Transatlantic Relations. Panelist at Böll Brainstorming Session. Heinrich Böll Stiftung Brussels, 5 November 2008.

The Limits of European Soft Power, paper presented at SNU-KIEP EU Centre conference ‘Power of Knowledge and Knowledge of Power: Soft Power and Asia-Europe Partnership’, Seoul, South Korea, 30-31 October 2008

The EULEX mission in Kosovo: implications for the development of European Security and Defence Policy. Discussant. European Policy Centre (EPC), 23 October 2008 The Afghan Issue, lecture delivered at Belgium Royal High Institute for Defence, Brussels, 27 September 2008

The EU as a security provider: assessing the impact of EU crisis management policies, paper presented at the World International Studies Conference (WISC), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23 July 2008

ESDP in Afghanistan – raising the stakes for the EU, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop ‘The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager: From Pragmatic Ad-hocism to Policy Coherence?’, Rennes, France, 11-16 April 2008

Reconstructing Afghanistan: ‘the West’ subsuming ‘the International Community’? International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA, 27 March 2008

The future of EU Security and Defence policies: the view from Brussels, ‘New Internal and External Politics of the EU take shape under the Lisbon Treaty’s influence’ Conference, European Studies Institute at Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), 22 February 2008

EU-US relations, lecture delivered at University of Maastricht, Maastricht, 29 January 2008

Crisis management in the Western Balkans, 37th Asser Colloquium on European Law - The European Union and International Crisis Management: Legal and Policy Aspects, The Hague, 11-12 October 2007

Leadership and Legitimacy in Practice: ESDP Military Operations 2003-2006, UACES Annual Conference, Portsmouth, 4 September 2007

The EU's Growing Engagement in Afghanistan - Raising the Stakes for ESDP, EUCPCM Final Conference, Brussels, 6 July 2007

Chair/Discussant, The European Union and Military Transformation: What kind of actor, what kind of capabilities? International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Chicago, IL, 2 March 2007

German Foreign Policy and European Security and Defence Cooperation – the Europeanization of national crisis management policies? International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Chicago, IL, 28 February 2007

European Neighbourhood Policy in the field of security, Lecture given at ‘European Security and Defence Policy’ seminar, Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementation Assistance Centre (RACVIAC), Zagreb, Croatia, 7 November 2006

Crisis management and conflict prevention policies in the Balkans in the context of the development of the EU ESDP, Lecture given at the Brave New Europe International Summer University, Ljubljana, 11 July 2006

The role of the EU as a global actor, Lecture given at Information seminar for journalists, Brussels, 3 July 2006

The EU in Afghanistan: what role for EU crisis management and conflict prevention policies? EUCPCM  Workshop, Loughborough University, 16 June 2006

ESDP Operations in the Western Balkans: appropriate, coherent, effective? CEPS Research Seminar, 14 June 2006

The Europeanization of national foreign policy? The role of CFSP/ESDP in crisis decision-making, Jean Monnet Workshop on Europeanization II, Marmara University, European Community Institute, Istanbul, 26 May 2006

European foreign policy and the war in Afghanistan: what leadership for the EU?, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in San Diego, CA, 22 March 2006

What Space for Europe? The role of the EU CFSP in national foreign policy: the case of Germany, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Honolulu, HI, 3 March 2005

The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy: the case of Germany, Jean Monnet Workshop on Europeanization, Marmara University, European Community Institute, Istanbul, 21 May 2004

The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy: attitudes and reactions to the EU CFSP since 1999, Recontre Doctoral workshop “The European Union in the World: Security, Multilateralism and Norm Diffusion”, CERI, 7 May 2004

 

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