European security and current events

Friday 10 Jul 2020, 13:30 → 18:30 Europe/London

Our European Security Working Group bring together three panels of experts to discuss current events affecting Europe. The fist panel will discuss Challenges to the Transatlantic Alliance, the second European Security Agenda in the 21st century, and finally a panel on EU Security and Its Neighbours. To finish the session we will introduce the new working group conveners.

It will be possible to join the event just for one or two panels if you are unable to make all three. The joining instructions will be the same for all.

13:30-15:00 - Panel  1: Challenges to the Transatlantic Alliance 

Chair: Jocelyn Mawdsley (University of Newcastle)

• Forecasting NATO’s Burden Sharing Disputes

Heljä Ossa (Finnish National Defence University)

• Forbidden waters? China in the North Atlantic

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira (CICP-University of Minho, Braga, Portugal), Paulo Afonso Brardo Duarte (CICP-University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)

• Assessing the future studies of Euro-Atlantic security institutions: the need for an eclectic approach

Luca Ratti (University of Rome 3 and The American University of Rome)

 

15:00-16:30- Panel 2: European Security Agenda in the 21st century

Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (University of Northumbria)

• European Security: A Historical Institutionalist Perspective

Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)

• Cybersecurity and the EU: lessons from the COVID19 crisis

Eva Saeva (Newcastle Law School)

• Critiquing the effectiveness of EU NAVFOR MED Sophia - an example of the Comprehensive Approach to security?

Simon Sweeney (University of York) , Neil Winn (University of Leeds)

• Yellow as a threat: criminalising urban protests as a political mechanism

Daniel Pedersoli, Vinícius Armele dos Santos Leal (PUC-Rio)

 

16:30-17:30- Panel 3: EU Security and Its Neighbours 

Chair: Arantza Gomez Arana (University of Northumbria)

• EU and US approaches to police reform in Ukraine: Complementary Local Ownership?

An Jacobs (Nottingham Trent University)

• Diverging horizons?: How citizens tell stories about foreign policy differently in Ukraine to the Baltic states

Alister Miskimmon (Queen's University Belfast), Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway)

• Practicing what it preaches or preaching what it practices? EU’s rhetoric and action in foreign policy’

Feyyaz Baris Celik (University of Kent)

 

17:30-17:45- Final remarks 

Registration will close two hours before the event begins.

13:30 → 18:30 European Security and current events