Conference Agenda

Session
Plenary 3: The European Union and re-discovery of ‘geopolitics’
Time:
Wednesday, 04/Sept/2024:
11:00am - 12:30pm

Session Chair: Vincent Della Sala
 Location: Humanities: Auditorium

Via Tommaso Gar. Capacity: 325. Overflow room: Aula 001 - Capacity: 93

Plenary overflow room: Aula 001. To watch the livestream, click the MS Teams button below.


Presentations

The European Union and re-discovery of ‘geopolitics’

Chair(s): Vincent Della Sala (University of Trento)

Presenter(s): Kateryna Pishchikova (eCampus University/ISPI), Stephanie Hofmann (EUI), Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)

This session aims to analyse the re-orientation of the EU in its relations with global actors or world regions as a result of the increasingly tense relations between ‘the West’, on one side, and Russia and/or China, on the other hand. The development of the war in Ukraine and the re-explosion of violence in Israel and Palestine represent severe security challenges that the EU is trying to address, also with important repercussions on EU-NATO relations. Finally, we would like that this devotes some attention to EU’s relations towards the global south, which represents not only a field for global competition between ‘the West’ and China/Russia, but also an area in which ‘local actorness’ is being strengthened and new global/regional actors are emerging.