Call for Papers
The EU as a Global Actor
Europe and the use of force
CEE – IRSEM Joint Doctoral Student Workshop and Doctoral Prize
Paris, 27-28 June 2013
Since 2010,The Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM - French Institute of Strategic Research), in partnership with the Centre d’études européennes - Sciences Po (CEE), have been running a yearly joint doctoral seminar on the theme“The EU as a Global Actor”. This year the theme is “Europe and the use of force”.
Europe and the use of force
Is the EU a global actor? How does Europe cope with its external action? Is there a specific EuropeanForeign policy / external action security regime, within or without the EU? How do Europeans – within EU memberstates or more widely – combine national and collective initiativesto take action beyond the borders of Europe? This workshop aims to explore these issues with respect to the use of force.
Europe has often seemed to avoid any massive military engagements involving serious battlefield operations, acted as a free rider on US security guarantees, or opted to fade from the frontline of power politics.Is Europe - as a collective actor under the EU banner – reluctant, or even allergic, to the use of force in international relations? From the early hopes in the 1990s that the Maastricht provisions would create a new power from a Common Foreign and Security Policy, to more recent debates on Europe as a normative power, there are many reasons to question whether the European Union is unwilling or unable to manage the use of hard power.
The convenors particularly invite papers focusing on (but not limited to) the following themes: the role of the EU during recent crises (including the relations between member states, the EU and NATO for instance in the face of the Libyan crisis); European attitudes towards theSyrian or Malian crises; the EU and / or EU member states and the UN Security Council; industrial cooperation in the field of defence (either bilaterally such as for instance between France and the UK, or Europe-wide).
This list of suggestions is not exhaustive and papers addressing the theme “Europe and the use of force” from other angles or perspectivesare equally welcome.
The workshop is open to PhD students in order to enable young researchers to exchange ideas and discuss their research findings with peers and senior colleagues. Candidates should certify that their presentation is an original one. Non-French students are warmly invited to apply.
The best paper (based on the quality of the text submitted and the oral presentation) will be awarded a 1.000 € prize, and published in the IRSEM Paris Papers series.
Organization:
-Convenors: Prof. Frédéric Charillon (IRSEM), Zaki Laïdi (Sciences Po, CEE)
-Working language: English.
-Format: up to ten PhD candidates will be selected to present their paper.
-Preparation: pre-circulated papers, 15mn presentation, followed by an open discussion.
-Material details: accommodation expenses will be covered by Sciences Po when no other source of funding is available; travel expenses are to be covered by the candidates or their University / Research Centre.
-The prize will be awarded as a personal award to the winner and not to his academic institution.
Calendar:
Submission of abstracts (500 words max) + CV: 15thApril 2013.
We aim to inform successful applicants by the end of April at the latest.
Submission of final papers:15th June 2013
Proposals should be sent simultaneously to: d (subject “CEE/IRSEM PhD workshop”)
Contact:
CEE:
IRSEM:
The details about the programme of the workshop and the papers will be posted on the CEE and IRSEM websites: -