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' and directs the University of Southern California (USC) Brussels Program 'Contemporary Issues in European Foreign and Security Policy'. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS)

Current research projects focus on transatlantic cooperation in conflict prevention and crisis management; European engagement in Afghanistan; the ongoing development of European crisis management policies and their implementation in the field; and the EU's engagement with the emerging powers.

Eva Gross holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University  (2010), 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.



Perspectives for a European security strategy towards Asia (co-edited with Gustaaf Geeraerts). Brussels, VUBPRESS Brussels University Press, 2011 

Books

The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy. Continuity and Change in European Crisis Management. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 and 2011.

Edited Books

Preventing Conflict, Managing Crisis: European and American Perspectives (with Daniel Hamilton, Claudia Major and Henning Rieke). Washington DC, Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2011

EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Roles, Institutions and Policies  (with Ana Juncos). London, Routledge 2011 

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

Towards a comprehensive approach? The EU’s contribution to Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Afghanistan Security and Peace 28 (4) 2010: 227-232

Reconstructing Afghanistan: Is the 'West' eclipsing the 'International Community'?  
Security and Peace 27 (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

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, December 2011, pp. 89-99

The EEAS and the Western Balkans (with Alessandro Rotta). IAI Working Paper 15. Rome: Instituto Affari Internazionali, 23 June 2011. Available via: http://www.iai.it/pdf/DocIAI/iaiwp1115.pdf

The Need to Regain Legitimacy Through the Civilian Component of Security. In Peral, L. and Tellis, A. (eds.). Afghanistan 2011-2014 and beyond: from support operations to sustainable peace. Joint Report, EU Institute for Security Studies and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 2011.

Afghanistan: Making the Transition Sustainable. Op-ed. Atlantic Community.org, 1 April 2011. 
Accessible via:
http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/Making_the_Transition_Sustainable

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). Brussels, May 2010. 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

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

The EU in Afghanistan: crisis management in a transatlantic setting. In E. Gross and A. Juncos, eds., EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Roles, Institutions and Policies. London, Routledge 2011: 117-130

Introduction (with Ana Juncos). In E. Gross and A. Juncos, eds., EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Roles, Institutions and Policies. London, Routledge 2011: 1-14

Conclusion and outlook (with Ana Juncos). In E. Gross and A. Juncos, eds., EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Roles, Institutions and Policies. London, Routledge 2011: 146-155

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.