Dr. Efstathios T. Fakiolas and Dr. Nikolaos Tzifakis published “Human security in EU strategy: reflecting on the experience of EUPM in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EULEX in Kosovo” in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. The article is available here
Dr. Beste İşleyen convened a workshop on “The Governance of Borders and Migration in the (Southern) Mediterranean: Entanglements of the Domestic, the Regional and the International”. The workshop brought together academics with diverse geographical foci, including Italy, Greece, Malta, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia and Turkey. Amsterdam …
Dr. Dimitris Bouris and Dr. Daniela Huber participated in the international conference “The International System with Trump: to Where?” organized by the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, 16-17 April 2019.
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Dr. Dimitris Bouris and Dr. Daniela Huber gave a public talk entitled “The international and regional dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with a focus on the unintended consequences of the EU’s state-building initiatives” at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Palestinian Territories.
“Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine” by Dr. Dimitris Bouris, published in The International Spectator. ABSTRACT: The existing literature on state-building has focused mainly on post-conflict cases and ‘conventional’ examples of statehood, without taking into consideration the particularities of …
Dr. Dimitris Bouris and Dr. Daniela Huber visited Birzeit University and offered lectures on the European Union’s Foreign Policy. Dr. Dimitris Bouris spoke about the Future of the EU in International Politics and Dr. Daniela Huber spoke about the EU’s role in the Palestine Israel conflict.
EUMENIA launches the EU-Middle East Jean Monnet Working Papers Series! Guidelines for Authors: The Jean Monnet Working Papers on EU-Middle East Relations welcomes solicited and unsolicited papers on all aspects of EU-Middle East relations. An ideal size should be around 5,000 words. References should follow …
On the 16th and 17th of April 2019, Birzeit University held its EUMENIA National Event. EUMENIA National Events constitute an unique opportunity to bring together members of the academic community with representatives of the civil society and active practitioners. This aims at favouring a fruitful …
Dimitris Bouris, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), organized the 3rd edition of the Practitioner Engagement Series.
Three events took place:
➢ 22 November 2018 – “The EU in the Middle East and North Africa: taking stock and looking ahead”
With speaker Mr Colin Scicluna, Director and Deputy Managing Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf region in the European External Action Service, since 2017.
➢ 26 November 2018 – “The European Union and state-building in the Western Balkans”
With speakers Dr. Giulio Venneri, Policy Officer (Political Desk Albania), European Commission DG NEAR and Dr. Davide Denti, Policy Officer (fundamental rights desk Bosnia and Herzegovina), European Commission DG NEAR.
➢ 6 December 2018 – “25 Years Since the Oslo Accords: EU initiatives, Palestinian and Israeli Perceptions”
With speakers: Ms Ulrike Hauer (Former Head of the Political Section of the Office of the EU Representative for West Bank and Gaza), Dr Anis Nacrour (Former Head of the EU Delegation to Syria and Former Advisor to Tony Blair), Dr. Dalal Iriqat (Arab American University Palestine) and Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ben Gurion University).
Beste İşleyen has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of “Environment and Planning D: Society and Space” for a three-year term, from January 2019 through December 2021. Society and Space is an international, interdisciplinary scholarly and political project. Through both a peer-reviewed journal and this editor …