CEI-IUL, in partnership with OBSERVARE-UAL and TSF, is organizing the IV edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on May 8, 9, & 10, 2019.

In a year marked by European Parliament elections, the volatility of the growing Eurosceptic movements throughout Europe alongside the uncertainties of the Brexit process and the unrest at the EU’s borders have represented serious challenges for the European Union. The fourth edition of the international conference “Europe as a Global Actor” seeks to understand the EU’s role in the world by looking inward and focusing on issues of legitimacy, democracy, and the role of EU institutions in the lives of citizens. The conference will also touch upon topics such as significant threats to the EU’s ontological security, including terrorism, organized crime, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, climate change, and hybrid warfare. In addition, the EU’s relationship with other major players – including the USA, China, Turkey, or Russia – will also be debated.

The Conference Program includes thematic panels, round tables with keynote speakers, as well as plenary sessions on the challenges of European security and defense, diplomacy, climate change, and other relevant subjects. As such, in addition to the presence of several invited scholars and practitioners the program also includes the presentation of communications by international researchers and practitioners in this area of knowledge.

Free entrance.

The full conference programme is available in the conference website.

Programme

[Free entry | Entrada Livre]

8 May 2019

Venue: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa(UAL)

09h00 | Registration (Aud. 1)

09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. 1)

• José Amado da Silva (Rector, UAL)
• Luís Moita (Director, OBSERVARE-UAL)
• Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, CEI-IUL)

 

10h00 | Roundtable: EU & the World (Aud. 1)

Moderator: Luís Nuno Rodrigues (CEI-IUL)

• Constança Urbano de Sousa (Ratio Legis, OBSERVARE-UAL)
• Félix Arteaga (Real Instituto Elcano)
• Carlos Gaspar (IPRI-NOVA)
• Ana Isabel Xavier (OBSERVARE-UAL, CEI-IUL)

 

11h30 – 11h45 | Coffee break

 

11h45 – 13h15 | Panels 1 & 2

 Panel 1: EU & Africa (Aud. 1)

Moderator: Pedro Seabra (CEI-IUL)

• Andrea Mensi(Bocconi University): “External action and self-determination: the coherence of EU external action with the principles of customary international law in the light of the Western Sahara Campaign”
• Ricardo Sousa(OBSERVARE-UAL): “APSA and the legality of military interventions in Africa, an assessment of the pyramid strategy and of the European Union position”
• Rodrigo Vaz(College of Europe/ECDPM): “Playing the long game: the EU’s approach to political change in Kenya”

 

Panel 2: Europe, America & the International Order (Room 90)

Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)

• Patrícia Daehnhardt(IPRI-NOVA): “Germany and the United States: no longer united in safeguarding the transatlantic security community?”
• Brice Didier(Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva): “From the passenger to the driver’s seat? The International Liberal Order and the European Union’s pragmatism in the face of American illiberal hegemony”
• Margaux Magalhães(Sorbonne University, Paris III): “The US, Europe and Turkey: the end of a partnership?“
• Pedro T. Magalhães(University of Helsinki): “Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Interwar Europe: Contemporary Lessons?”

 

13h15 – 14h00 | Lunch break

 

14h30 – 16h00 | Panels 3 & 4

Panel 3: European Elections (Aud. 1)

Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (OBSERVARE-UAL, CEI-IUL)

• Catarina Silva(CICP-UMinho), Laura Ferreira-Pereira(CICP-UMinho), & Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira(CICP-UMinho), “Euroscepticism within the post-2008 European Parliament”
• Bruno de Sousa(ISCTE-IUL), “European elections, democracy, and Euroscepticism: a systematic literature review”
• Luísa Godinho (UAL), “The local construction of Euroscepticism: a downsian approach to the positioning of the Portuguese Communist Party vis-à-vis the European project”

 

Panel 4: EU Actorness (Room 90)

Moderator: Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL)

• Valentin Luntumbue(College of Europe): “The European Union as a Middle Power”
• Mónica Canário(CEI-IUL) & David Ferreira(CEI-IUL): “A Normative Power Europe in the Caucasus? Human Rights in Georgia since the Rose Revolution”
• José Viegas(CEI-IUL): “The EU grand strategy: in and between great power politics”
• Inês Marques Ribeiro(CEI-IUL): “EU strategic narratives in crisis management”

 

16h00 – 16h30 | Coffee break

16h30 – 18h00 | Panels 5, 6, 7

Panel 5: EU & China (Aud. 1)

Moderator: (to be announced)

• Carmen Mendes(Universidade de Coimbra): “The European Union’s China Policy”
• Giovambattista Perrotta(Alber & Geiger): “The impossible? An analysis of the reasons which hinder an EU-China FTA”
• Cátia Miriam Costa(CEI-IUL): “China – Russia Compact: rival or complement provider of global security?”
• Paulo Duarte(UMinho, OBSERVARE-UAL): “The EU global actorness vis-à-vis China’s quest for a global identity: between splits and convergence”

 

Panel 6: EU & the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Room 90)

Moderator: Brígida Brito (OBSERVARE-UAL)

• Ana Raquel Conceição(Lusíada University): “The mousetrap of corruption: a criminal cooperation imperative in the EU”
• Imad Ibrahim(Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa): “The Role of the European Union’s Law in the International Climate Change Regime”
• Filipa Gomes(OBSERVARE-UAL): “Water Framework Directive: Brief analysis to the complexity and urgency in implementing European Ecopolitics”

 

Panel 7: EU & the Middle East (Room to be announced)

Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)

• Felipe Pathé Duarte(OBSERVARE-UAL, ISCPSI): “Hybrid Threats in Europe and Online Narrative Led Operations: Rhetorical Model for Jihadi Videos”
• Mónica Canário(CEI-IUL): “EU’s political will versus EU’s political (in)action towards its Southern border: Promotion and protection of women’s rights in Morocco and Tunisia”
• Nadji Khaoua(University of Annaba), “The results of the economic partnership between Algeria and EU”
• Marco Marsili(CEI-IUL): “The Crackdown on Political Dissent in Turkey After July 15, 2016. A Challenge to European Values”

 

18h30 | Book presentation (Aud. 1)

Constança Urbano de Sousa (Ed.), “The relevance of migration for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (OBSERVARE-UAL and Ratio Legis. Lisbon: UAL, 2019)

 

9 May 2019

Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa(ISCTE-IUL)

10h30 | Roundtable with Portuguese Members of the European Parliament and candidates: 2019 European Parliament Elections (Aud. B2.03)

(session in Portuguese, live streamed through TSF Radio)

Opening remarks:

• Helena Carreiras (Director, ESPP / ISCTE-IUL)
• Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, CEI-IUL)
• Luís Tomé (Scientific Coordinator, OBSERVARE-UAL)

 

Moderator: Ricardo Alexandre (TSF, CEI-IUL, OBSERVARE-UAL)

• Pedro Marques (PS, S&D)
• Paulo Rangel (PSD, EPP)
• João Ferreira (CDU, GUE/NGL)
• Nuno Melo (CDS, EPP)
• Marisa Matias (BE, GUE/NGL)
• António Marinho e Pinto (PDR, ALDE)

 

12h30 – 14h00 | Lunch break

 

14h00 – 15h45 | Panels 8, 9, 10

Panel 8: Brexit (Room C1.01)

Moderator: Luísa Godinho (OBSERVARE-UAL)

•  António Raimundo(CICP-UMinho, CEI-IUL) & Laura Ferreira-Pereira(CICP-UMinho): “Brexit and Portugal: the coping strategies of a small Euro-Atlantic state”
• Stefano Loi(CEI-IUL): “Brexit and the future of EU military integration”
• Bruno Fonseca(NOVA): “A Study on the Negotiation Process of Brexit: the role of the Northern Ireland and Scotland.”
• Pedro Ponte e Sousa(IPRI-NOVA): “Britain, Brexit, and Portuguese foreign policy: opportunity or challenge?”

 

Panel 9: EU & Transnational Security Challenges (Room C2.05)

Moderator: Ricardo Sousa (OBSERVARE-UAL)

• Hermínio Matos(ISCPSI, OBSERVARE-UAL): “ “Um-dó-li-tá” – Typology and Protection of Targets in Counterterrorism”
• Sofia Martins Geraldes(CEI-IUL): “The equilibrium between the promotion of security in cyberspace and democracy: what role for the European Union countering online disinformation?”
• Maria João Tomás(OBSERVARE-UAL): “Cross-cultural challenges and migration in Europe”
• Joana Araújo Lopes(CEI-IUL): “The return of Foreign Terrorist Fighters and the security of the EU”

 

Panel 10: EU & the crisis in Venezuela – Roundtable (Room to be announced)

Moderator: Marcelo Moriconi (CEI-IUL)

• Luis Fretes Carreras (CEI-IUL)
• Nancy Gomes(OBSERVARE-UAL)
• Andrés Malamud(ICS-UL)
• Leiv Marsteintredet(University of Bergen)
• Juan Francisco Contreras(Colegio de Internacionalistas de Venezuela)

 

15h45 – 16h00 | Coffee Break

 

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16h00| EGA participants are invited to attend a conference by Mário Centeno (President of the Eurogroup) on ”Euro and the Future of Europe” (Aud. B104) (Conference in Portuguese)

18h00 | Roundtable: The European Union as a Global Actor (Room B2.03)

Moderator: Luís Tomé (OBSERVARE-UAL)

• Isabel Camisão (FLUC)
• Hussein Bagsi (Middle East Technical University)
• Liliana Reis (UBI)
• Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)

 

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10 May 2019 – E(U)lections’19: Think, Decide, Change!

Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa(ISCTE-IUL)

(Event in Portuguese; registration required until 7 May in this form).

 08h30 – 09h00 | Welcome reception & registration (Atrium 1^stfloor, Building 2)

 

 09h00 – 10h00 | “The Tree of Europe – workshop” (Aud. B2.03)

 

 10h00 – 12h00 | Roundtable: Populism and democracy: what’s at stake? (Aud. B2.03)

 Moderator: Catarina Carvalho (DN)

• Riccardo Marchi (CEI-IUL)
• Marco Lisi (IPRI-NOVA)
• Susana Salgado (ICS)
• Cláudia Álvares (CIES-IUL)

 

12h00 – 12h30 | The citizens meet… (Aud. B2.03)

•  Ana Paula Zacarias (Portuguese Secretary of State of European Affairs)

 

12h30 – 13h40 | Networking lunch buffet(Exhibition Room, 1^stfloor, Building 2)

 

13h45 – 14h30 | Get together (Aud. B2.03)

 

 14h30 – 16h30 | “May the vote be with EU”: Workshop on the future of Europe [rooms C1.01, C2.05, C2.01, C2.02]

 

 16h30 – 17h00 | Debriefing, follow up & closing remarks (Aud. B.203)

 

 

The full conference programme is available in the conference website.

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