About
EU foreign policy experiences unprecedented turbulences that put key achievements of the European integration project at risk. Externally, the EU’s global environment is characterized by the reconfiguration of power, growing divisions, and the contestation of established liberal order. Simultaneously, the EU’s neighbourhood is increasingly conflict prone and instable, triggering migration flows and the proliferation of illiberal values. ‘Domestically’, the EU faces severe internal conflicts, marked by austerity, Brexit, growing nationalism, populism and new protectionism.
The Action ENTER aims to improve our understanding of central properties of EU foreign policy in light of these new realities, focusing on perceptions, communication, contestation. In today’s world, the success of EU foreign policy depends on the EU’s ability to instantaneously respond to stimuli and pressures originating from both the international and the intra-EU levels. A central objective of the action is to derive theoretically informed, policy relevant advice for the EU's strategic approach to its international relations, its communication, and for dealing with the interaction between internal and external challenges. It will generate a step change in how the new realities of EU foreign policy are theorized and addressed. This will be achieved by establishing multi-national, multidisciplinary collaborations at the nexus of policy fields and research communities that have not sufficiently communicated in the past. Substantive efforts to bridge between the “academic-practitioner divide” are made, to synthesize knowledge, facilitate shared understandings, and inform EU foreign policy.
For more information, read the project summary document.
Previous events
Brexit - what will be the likely effects on the EEA?
Time and place: – , Wergeland, Litteraturhuset, Oslo
We have invited UK experts to discuss the situation and the status of the negotiations. In addition we have brought together experts from the three EEA countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to discuss the likely effects on the EEA countries.
The UK government’s stated objective in relation to Brexit is to ‘take back control’ and at the same time ensure as close access to the EU’s internal market as possible. What is the situation one year after the UK started the Brexit process (triggered Article 50)? We have invited UK experts to discuss the situation and the status of the negotiations. In addition we have brought together experts from the three EEA countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to discuss the likely effects on the EEA countries.
Panels:
Status of Brexit:
- Julie Smith, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge and the House of Lords
- Christopher Lord, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
- Atle L. Wold, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo and the British Politics Society
Effects on EEA countries:
- Christian Frommelt, the Liechtenstein Institute
- Jóhanna Jónsdóttir, Institute of International Affairs, the University of Iceland
- Hans Petter Graver, Department of Private Law, the University of Oslo
Organiser
ARENA Centre for European Studies, British Politics Society and Institute of International Affairs/The Centre for Small State Studies, University of Iceland