Research Programme
The 3 P’s
EUFOG systematically addresses the politics, policies and partners associated with the ways in which EU foreign policy responds to these new international realities.
Politics
Firstly, EUFOG is interested in understanding how politics shapes the EU’s response to the fragmentation of the international order.
Polítical conflict over EU foreign policy (different issue areas), as a consequence of an active contributor to a more conflictive international order.
R01, R02, R03, R04, R16, R17
Policies
Secondly, EUFOG will examine different policies adopted by the EU with the ambition to become a more geopolitical and geoeconomic actor.
EU foreign policy (different issue areas) in response to a more geopolitical order, and as part of the process that makes it more competitive.
R05, R07, R08, R09, R18
Partners
Thirdly, EUFOG will also pay attention to the role and agency of partners – i.e. to the evolving relationships with and perspectives about the EU held by other key powers.
Changing relationships with partners, and changing perceptions of the EU by them, in a more geopolitical international order.
R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15
The 18 EUFOG Research Projects
Recruiting organisation
DC
PhD project title
The politics of defence. EU member states debate armed forces in an era of great power competition.
1
2
Driving contestation on climate and gender. Populism, the Commission, and the erosion of the liberal international order.
Egmont/UGhent (Belgium)
IBEI/UAB (Spain)
The EU over 27. Enlargement in an era of great power competition.
3
ULEI¹ (Netherlands)
The (geo)politics of energy. EU member states energy and raw materials diversification in the era of scarcity.
4
JUK (Poland)
How deep are changes to the international role of the EU? The cases of development policy and human rights.
5
UiO (Norway)
Gender in EU external relations in an age of closure, community and competition.
6
IBEI/UAB (Spain)
Global climate politics beyond contractual multilateralism. Reconsidering EU as a green power.
7
IBEI/UAB (Spain)
From normative to pragmatic and back? The EU’s engagement with close neighbours in a geopolitical order.
8
JUK (Poland)
Is geopolitics the only game in town? The sources of Grand Strategic thought in the EU.
9
Egmont/UGhent (Belgium)
Atlanticists, Europeanists and strategic autonomy. Preferences over and by allies.
10
ULEI² (Netherlands)
Going South. Changing perspectives on the EU among “friends of multilateralism”.
11
UiO (Norway)
Candidates, neighbours, buffers. Inclusion and exclusion in narratives about EU neighbouring regions.
12
JUK (Poland)
The EU’s public diplomacy at time of crises and uncertainty. Cases on security and multilateralism.
13
DA (Austria)
The Western security alliance under stress. The place of the EU.
14
DA (Austria)
Great Powers and Multilateral Cooperation at the UN: Perceptions, Priorities and Outcomes.
15
DA (Austria)
Clashing self-understandings of EU Strategic Autonomy in a contect of geopolitical competition.
16
UoB (UK)³
Domestic contestation over the EU’s new geoeconomic instruments.
17
UoB (UK)
A neu geoeconomic power? Assessing the impact of the EU’s unilateral trade and investment policy instruments.
18
UoB (UK)
The University of Leiden programmes have a duration of 4 years.
All UK based programmes are funded by UKRI
All UK based programmes are funded by UKRI