Reports
CSOs and the European Union’s external policies
GLOBUS policy dialogue
The European Union and the BRICS: Wither the ambition of a just global order?
Helene Sjursen
The European Migration System and Global Justice
Antonio Zotti (ed.)
Financing the future: Assessing the EU's approach to financing the Sustainable Development Goals in light of global justice
Sunniva Unn Hustad
Who should bear the burden? The EU’s Approach to Responsibility for the Sustainable Development Goals
Sigrid Jerpstad
The EU as Promoter of Global Gender Justice: Combating Trafficking in the Face of the ‘Migrant Crisis’
Vera Sofie Borgen Skjetne
The Western Argument Wins: A Postcolonial Critique of Conceptions of Global Justice as Mutual Recognition
Lea Augenstein
Partnerships for Sustainable Trade? The EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in the Context of Global Justice
Joachim Vigrestad
The European Migration System and Global Justice: A First Appraisal
Enrico Fassi and Sonia Lucarelli (eds)
Policy briefs
The European Union, migration and global justice
Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna
Aid, governance and sustainable development in Africa
Pundy Pillay, Wits School of Governance
How can the EU achieve an equal partnership with Africa?
Johanne D. Saltnes, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Building justice into EU security policy
Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
More commitment, wider recognition: Pathways to a more just EU climate strategy
Thomas Diez, University of Tübingen
Franz von Lucke, University of Tübingen
The European Union, global justice and multilateralism
Helene Sjursen, ARENA Centre for European Studies
EU security operations and global justice
Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
The EU’s approach to Libya and the ‘War on Smuggling’
Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna
Enrico Fassi, Catholic University in Milan
Supporting human rights of LGBTI persons
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, ARENA Centre for European Studies
The EU's Global Climate Leadership
Franziskus von Lucke, University of Tübingen
Thomas Diez, University of Tübingen
Research papers
2020
Realising Global Political Justice
Erik O. Eriksen, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
Gender Justice in EU Crisis Management Missions
Melanie Hoewer, University College Dublin
Heidi Riley, University College Dublin
Russia’s Conception of a Just International Order and Its Commitments with the Council of Europe: A Difficult Match
Davide Fiammenghi, University of Bologna
Human Security and Mutual Recognition
Orphée-Luisa Dorschner, University of Tübingen
Ethno-National Conflict Resolution and EU Integration: A Justice-Based Approach
Jelena Radakovic, University College Dublin
Home Field Advantage? EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreement Meeting Locations and Textual Tone
Samuel Brazys, University College Dublin
Martijn Schoonvelde, University College Dublin
Global Justice and Its Challenges: The Case of the EU’s Approach to Syria
Nikola Tomić, University College Dublin
Just Power Europe or Overpowering the South? Exploring the EU’s Relations with Developing Countries in the Climate Field
Franziskus von Lucke, University of Tübingen
A Break from the Past or Business as Usual? EU-ACP Relations at a Crossroad
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Shifting Conceptions of Gender Justice in EU Policy on Women Peace and Security
Heidi Riley, University College Dublin
EU Foreign Policy and Humanitarian Intervention: Justice in a Disordered World
Richard Maher, University College Dublin
Europe and the Contested Politics of Migration: Between Logistification and Global Justice
Giorgio Grappi, University of Bologna
Cohesion, (non-)Domination, and Regional Organisations in the EU-SADC EPA Negotiations
Katharina L. Meissner, Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), University of Vienna
Between Border Dispute and Ethnic Conflict: The EU as a Just Mediator in the Serbia-Kosovo Stalemate
Nikola Tomić, University College Dublin
Resilience and the EU’s Global Strategy: The Potential Promise of Justice
Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
From Impartial Solutions to Mutual Recognition: Explaining Why the EU Changed Its Procedural Climate Justice Preferences
Solveig Aamodt, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Elin Lerum Boasson, University of Oslo
To Sanction or Not to Sanction? Normative Dilemmas in the Promotion of LGBTI Human Rights
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, ARENA Centre for European Studies
The Future of EU Development Policy Post-2020
Amelia Hadfield, University of Surrey
Simon Lightfoot, University of Leeds
2019
Is the World Ready for Cooperative Multipolarity?
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Ambassador of Brazil to Egypt
Recognition and Obligation: EU and South Africa Renewable Energy Development Cooperation
Ivor Sarakinsky, School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand
EU Aid for Trade: Mitigating Global Trade Injustices?
Samuel Brazys, University College Dublin
Arya Pillai, University College Dublin
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Global Justice and Aid Effectiveness: Reforms of the European Union's Development Policy
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Principled Pragmatism in Climate Policy? The EU and Changing Practices of Climate Justice
Franziskus von Lucke, University of Tübingen
Global Gender Justice: Distributive Justice or Participatory Parity?
Cathrine Holst, ARENA Centre for European Studies
2018
Trade Liberalisation and Female Employment in Botswana and South Africa
Kholiswa Malindini and Odile Mackett, University of the Witwatersrand
The European Union and Africa: Depoliticised Development and the Elusive Quest for Democracy and Security
Arrigo Pallotti, University of Bologna
The EU and the Crisis of Liberal Order: At Home and Abroad
Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
The European Union as a Tolerant Actor
Graham Finlay, University College Dublin
Towards Global Justice with Chinese Characteristics
Matthieu Burnay, Queen Mary University of London
Marta Hermez, KU Leuven
Contested Ground: The Campaign to Enhance the Status of the European Union in the UN General Assembly
Katie Verlin Laatikainen, Adelphi University
Ambassador Martin Palouš, Florida International University
Mutual Recognition in Global Negotiations: The Case of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit
Hayley Walker, Université catholique de Louvain - KU Leuven
Promoting Global Justice When Backlash Strikes: EU and UN Beijing +20
Cathrine Holst, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Out but Still In: Norway's Approach to Migration and Asylum as a non-EU State
Espen D.H. Olsen, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
Aid Curse with Chinese Characteristics? Chinese Development Flows and Economic Reforms
Samuel Brazys, University College Dublin
Krishna C. Vadlamannati, University College Dublin
On Protection and Justice: The Proposals for Reform of the Common European Asylum System
Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna
The (In)Justices of Peacekeeping: EUFOR Tchad/RCA
Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
The Pursuit of Justice Through EU Security Strategies
Nikola Tomić, University College Dublin
Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
Different Angles on Climate Justice: Insights from Non-domination and Mutual Recognition
Alexa Zellentin, University College Dublin
2017
Europe's Foreign Policy and the Nature of Secrecy
Mai'a K. Davis Cross, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo and Northeastern University, Boston MA.
The Solidarisation of International Society: The EU in the Global Climate Change Regime
Bettina Ahrens, University of Tübingen.
EU Institutions and the Drive for Peace: The Power of Ideas
Mai'a K. Davis Cross, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo and Northeastern University, Boston MA.
Equal Sovereignty: On the Conditions of Global Political Justice
Kjartan Koch Mikalsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Global Justice and Foreign Policy: The Case of the European Union
Helene Sjursen, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
O Justice, Where Art Thou? Developing a New Take on Climate Justice
Franziskus von Lucke, University of Tübingen
2016
Three Conceptions of Global Political Justice
Erik O. Eriksen, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
Books and articles
2025
Towards orchestrating normative power in the climate crisis
Franziskus von Lucke
Cooperation and Conflict, 60(3), 479-503. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00108367251338674 (Original work published 2025)
2023
Special Section: Liberal order, the EU and global political justice
Helene Sjursen
International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 6, November 2023, Pages 2203–2220
Aid-for-trade (AfT) and global justice: The European Union (EU) in Africa
Megan Govender and Pundy Pillay
Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research, 15(1), 2023, 1-13
2022
Conflict Resolution and Global Justice: The European Union in the Global Context
Nikola Tomić and Ben Tonra (eds)
Routledge, 2022
ISBN: 9780367460747
The European Union and Global Development. A Rights-based Development Policy?
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes
Routledge, 2022
ISBN: 9780367468514
2021
Analysing EU external action through the lens of global justice theory
Helene Sjursen and Joachim Vigrestad
In: The External Action of the European Union. Concepts, Approaches, Theories
Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz (eds.)
Macmillan International (2021)
ISBN: 9781352012187 (hardcover) / 9781352012132 (ebook) / 9781352012125 (paperback)
Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice
Giorgio Grappi, editor
Routledge, 2021
The EU and Global Climate Justice
Franziskus von Lucke, Thomas Diez, Solveig Aamodt, Bettina Ahrens
Routledge, 2021
Principled pragmatism in climate policy? The EU and changing practices of climate justice
Franziskus von Lucke
Political Geography, Volume 86, April 2021
The Politicization of LGBTI Human Rights Norms in the EU‐Uganda Development Partnership
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes and Markus Thiel
The Journal of Common Market Studies, 1/2021 (first published: 21 January 2021)
2020
The European Union and global political justice
Helene Sjursen
In: The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies
Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez, Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond, Yannis A. Stivachtis (eds.)
Routledge (2021)
ISBN: 9781138589919
The EU Migration System of Governance
Michela Ceccorulli, Enrico Fassi and Sonia Lucarelli (editors)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
EU aid for trade: Mitigating global trade injustices?
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, Samuel Brazys, Joseph Lacey and Arya Pillai
Third World Quarterly (online first, 24 August 2020)
The Irrelevance of History: In Defense of a Pure Functionalist Theory of Territorial Jurisdiction
Kjartan Koch Mikalsen
Ratio Juris, Vol. 33, Issue 3: 291-306
The EU, Migration and Global Justice. Policy Narratives of Human Smuggling and their Normative Implications
Enrico Fassi
Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze dell'Amministrazione, 1(2020)
Is the Curtain on the Stage of the Liberal Order Closing?
Sonia Lucarelli
Vita e Pensiero, 2020
2019
Talking Migration: Narratives of Migration and Justice Claims in the European Migration System of Governance (special issue)
Silvia D'Amato and Sonia Lucarelli (eds)
The International Spectator, vol. 54, issue 3
The following GLOBUS researchers have contributed to the issue
Silvia D'Amato and Sonia Lucarelli, 'Talking migration: Narratives of Migration and Justice Claims in the European Migration System of Governance', pp.1-17.
Michela Ceccorulli, 'Così è (se vi pare): Talking Migration to Italians', pp 18-36.
Cinzia Bevitori and Antonio Zotti, 'Justice Claims in UK Media Narratives: Normative Orientations and EU Migration Governance', pp 72-89.
Espen D.H. Olsen and Ragnhild Grønning, 'From Humanitatian Needs to Border Control: Norwegian Media Narratives on Migration and Conceptions of Justice', pp. 90-106.
Kantian Republicanism in the International Sphere: Equal Sovereignty as a Condition of Global Justice
Kjartan Koch Mikalsen
In Kant's Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues and Global Debates
Garret Wallace Brown and Áron Telegdi-Csetri (eds).
Edinburgh University Press, 2019
ISBN: 9780748695492
2018
The EU as a Securitising Agent? Testing the Model, Advancing the Literature
Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna)
West European Politics, Online first 2018, doi: 10.1080/01402382.2018.1510201
Back to Schengen: The Collective Securitisation of the EU Free-border Area
Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna
West European Politics, online first 2018, doi: 10.1080/01402382.2018.1510196
Partners at Paris? Climate negotiations and transatlantic relations
Mai'a K Davis Cross
Journal of European Integration, online 2018
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2018.1487962
Crossing boundaries: Investigating 'fair' in British parliamentary debateson im/migration
Cinzia Bevitori
Textus, 2018, Vol XXXI Special Issue ‘Aspects of political language in the age of “post-democracy” and beyond’ (edited by L. Blaxill and E. Di Martino)
DOI: 10.7370/89450
Securing the EU’s borders in the 21st Century
Michela Ceccorulli and Sonia Lucarelli
In: EU Security Strategies: Extending the EU System of Security Governance
Spyros Economides and James Sperling (eds)
Routledge, 2018
ISBN: 9781138210417
2017
Environmental and Climate Diplomacy: Building Coalitions Through Persuasion
Diarmuid Torney and Mai'a K. Davis Cross
In: European Union External Environmental Policy. Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders
Camilla Adelle, Katja Biedenkopf, Diarmund Torney (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319609317
Migration and the EU Global Strategy: Narratives and Dilemmas
Michela Ceccorulli and Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
The International Spectator 52(3), 2017, 83–102
DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2017.1332850
Norm collision in the EU's external policies. The case of EU sanctions towards Rwanda
Johanne Døhlie Saltnes
Cooperation and Conflict, Online First, 2017, pp. 1-18: DOI: 10.1177/0010836717710528