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Monday 1 September
Session 1 (starts at 11:30 ).......................................................... pg 3-5
Session 2 (starts at 13:45 ).......................................................... pg 6-8
Session 3 (starts at 15:40 )........................................................ pg 9-11
Tuesday 2 September
Session 4 (starts at 10:50 )...................................................... pg 12-14
Session 5 (starts at 13:05 )...................................................... pg 15-18
Session 6 (starts at 14:55 )...................................................... pg 19-22
Session 7 (starts at 16:45 )...................................................... pg 23-25
Wednesday 3 September
Session 8 (starts at 09:30 )...................................................... pg 26-28
Session 9 (starts at 11:30 )...................................................... pg 29-30
Maps............................................................................................. pg 32
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Research Session 1: Monday 1 September, 11:30-13:00
Panel 101: Managing the Eurozone: The Crisis & Beyond
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G09
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Miguel Otero-Iglesias
Prof Isabel Camisão: 'A Shift from the "Logic of Appropriateness"? The Commission's Role during
the Euro Crisis (2008-2013)'
Prof John Ryan: 'Credit Rating Agencies in the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crises'
Mr Stijn Verhelst: 'A Eurozone Committee in the European Parliament: Sense or Nonsense?'
Panel 103: Re-Energising Europe? Balancing Sustainability and Managing Climate Change
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G03
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Thomas Hörber
Dr Rosa María Fernández (Nicholas Horsewood): 'Fuel Poverty: A Cross-country Analysis'
Ms Martina Kühner: 'Peer Reviews of EU Sustainable Development Strategies - An Effective Means
for a More Sustainable Europe?'
Mr Niels Smeets: 'Combating or Cultivating Climate Change? Russia's Approach to Global Warming
as an Obstacle to EU Environmental Pioneering'
Panel 104: European Social Policy: Cohesion and Social Fairness
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G16
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Susan Banducci
Dr Brid Quinn: 'EU Cohesion Policy: Panacea or Palliative?'
Mrs Agnieszka Trzcinska (Stefan Huemer): 'Let Them Last - on the Optimal Design of Reforms in
Europe and the Role of Social Fairness'
Dr Ania Zbyszewska: 'Poland's On-going Neoliberal Transition, Inequality, and Social Crisis Lessons for Europe?'
Panel 105: The Politics of Multilateralism at the UN: Established Group Politics in UN
Politics
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G08
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Katie Laatikainen
Prof Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner: 'G-77 and Nonaligned Group: The Relevance of Tricontinental
Multilateralism'
Dr Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués: 'The Arab League and the Politics of Multilateralism: Dialogues on
International Security'
Prof Karen Smith: 'The European Union and the Politics of Multilateralism at the UN Human Rights
Council'
Panel 106: The EU, Russia and the Neighbourhood
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G01
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Derek Averre
Dr Tom Casier: 'How Regional Integration Turned into a Contentious Issue: The Different Faces of
Power in EU-Russia Tensions over their Common Neighbourhood'
Prof Joan DeBardeleben: 'Framing of EU-Russian Relations in National Media: Russia, Germany, and
Poland'
Dr Anna-Sophie Maass: 'Risks of the EU's "Actorness" in Ukraine'
Dr Tatiana Romanova: 'Diversification of EU-Russian Relations: Towards Increased
Transgovernmentalism and Transnationalism?'
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Panel 109: Addressing European Monetary Integration: Prickly Issues and Financial
Stability
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G17
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Raj Chari
Prof Ivo Maes: 'Robert Triffin: A Hedgehog in Pursuit of European Monetary Integration'
Prof David Mayes: 'The Funding of Bank Resolution'
Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan: 'The Development of the European Commission's Financial
Management Powers: A Step Closer to Governmentalization?'
Panel 110: Turkey and the EU - Ten Years on from Brussels 2004
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room 106
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Gulay Icoz
Discussant: Dr Natalie Martin
Dr Basak Alpan: 'Revisiting AKP's "Conservative Democracy" as an Empty Signifier in Turkish
Politics: What Purchase for "Europeanisation"?'
Prof David Phinnemore (Erhan Icener): 'Rough Waters, Dark Shadows and Cross-Cutting Winds:
The Impact of European Union Enlargement on Turkey's EU Accession Negotiations'
Mr Csaba Rada: 'Down to Earth: Turkish Foreign Policy's Return to the EU Track'
Dr Ebru Turhan: 'The Formation of Turkish Perceptions of the EU in View of New Global and
Regional Challenges'
Panel 111: Local Perspectives on Europe I
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G04
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Tom Verhelst
Discussant: Dr Anil Awesti
Ms Alice Engl: 'Developing Transnational Governance and Integration in Border Regions: The
European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in Policy and Practice'
Mr Christopher Huggins: 'Cross-border Co-operation and Governance in the
English Channel/Manche Region: A Unique Case?'
Ms Elisabetta Mocca: 'The European Dimension of Urban Sustainability: The Case of Socioecological Municipal Networks in the European Union'
Panel 113: European CSDP: Identity, Vulnerabilities and Practice
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G18
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof David Galbreath
Dr An Jacobs: 'Negotiating Exit Strategies upon Entrance: Enhancing CSDP Efficiency'
Dr Kenneth McDonagh: 'Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk: Understanding the EU's Security
Identity'
Mr Kristian Nielsen (Lea Kahlke Hansen): 'French Foreign Policy Activism and the CSDP'
Ms Lenka Wieluns: 'CSDP: Examining the Role of National Defense Vulnerabilities in Relation to the
EU Cooperative Security'
Panel 114: EU Law in Policy: Shaping Governance and Security for Member States and
the Community
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G02
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Paul James Cardwell
Prof Ester Herlin-Karnell: 'The Concept of Justice within the EU's Security Governance'
Dr David Yuratich: 'The Court of Justice's Vision for and Development of EU Democracy'
Dr Robert Zbíral: 'Innovative Legislative Instruments as a Means to Better Division of Competences
between the EU and Member States?'
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Panel 115: The EU's Future Challenge in Regaining Global Leadership in Social Justice
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G14
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Dagmar Schiek
Discussant: Prof Dimitry Kochenov
Dr Nuno Ferreira (Dora Kostakopoulou): 'The Roma in the Context of Derogations to EU Free
Movement of Persons'
Dr Petra Guasti: 'Civil Society Development after the EU Enlargement and Economic Crises'
Prof Jukka Snell: 'The Internal Market and EMU: From Single Market to Economic Union'
Dr Rebecca Zahn: 'EU Enlargement during Times of Crisis: What Future for Freedom of Movement
and EU Integration?'
Panel 117: Citizens' Access to Justice in Europe: The Principle of Effective Judicial
Protection in EU Law Post-Lisbon I
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G13
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou
Discussant: Dr Alina Tryfonidou
Ms Laura Asarite: 'United in Equality? Citizens' Access to Effective Legal Protection and the National
Equality Bodies in the Baltic Sea Region'
Miss Chiara Raucea: 'The "Genuine Enjoyment" of European Citizenship Rights: The "European
Way" to Access to Justice'
Mr Joaquín Sarrión Esteve: 'Effective Judicial Protection in Consumer Protection in the ECJ's Case
Law'
Panel 118: Coherence and Public Diplomacy, the Twin Quest of EU External Action
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G15
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Karolina Pomorska
Ms Sanderijn Duquet (Jan Wouters): 'Seeking Refuge at European Union Delegations: Legal and
Policy Issues'
Mr Thomas Henökl: '"Coming from the Cold": MS Diplomats Seconded to the European External
Action Service - Why and how Background Factors of EU Officials and Seconded National Diplomats
(SNDs) Impact on the Decision-making Behavior of the European Foreign Policy Machinery'
Dr Kolja Raube (Anne-Claire Marangoni): 'Strategic Partnerships, Tailor-made Approach versus
Coherence?'
Dr Ilze Ruse: 'Using the Opportunity of the EEAS Review for Controlling the Agent: A PrincipleAgent Method in Explaining the EU's Diplomatic Service'
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Research Session 2: Monday 1 September, 13:45-15:15
Panel 201: Sovereignty in the European Union I
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G18
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Daniel Augenstein
Prof Matej Avbelj: 'The Pluralist Conception of Sovereignty'
Mr Michael Ball: 'Monetary Sovereignty: Its evolution and Relevance in the Post-national Legal
Order'
Dr Maria Cahill: 'Sovereignty and Late Sovereignty: Consonances and Dissonances'
Panel 202: EU Citizenship and Social Rights
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G17
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Sandra Marco Colino
Dr Egle Dagilyte: 'Social Rights in the European Union Post-Economic Crisis: Is the EU Charter
"Much Ado About Nothing"?'
Mr Panos Stasinopoulos: 'EU Citizenship and its Interaction with the (Market) Fundamental
Freedoms: The Role of the Rule of Reason'
Dr Florian Trauner (Emanuele Manigrassi): 'When Visa-free Travel becomes Difficult to Achieve and
Easy to Lose: The EU Visa Free Dialogues after the EU's Experience with the Western Balkans'
Panel 203: Energy and the Environment I
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G03
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Thomas Hörber
Dr Jenny Fairbrass: 'The Governance of Climate Change: Evolving Relations'
Dr Rosa María Fernández: 'The Influence of Energy Companies on the Climate Policy Agenda'
Dr Darren McCauley (Raphael Heffron): 'Energy Systems Justice'
Dr Israel Sandoval (Jenny Fairbrass & Elizabeth Hooper): 'EPI Disintegration in the EU: Framing,
Funding and Fooling?'
Panel 204: European and Global Markets: From Consumer Rights to Human Rights
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G09
Chair/Chair Discussant: Mr Joaquín Sarrión Esteve
Mr Johan Adriaensen: 'Politics without Principals? The European Member States in External Trade
Negotiations'
Ms Laura Beke: 'The Narcissism of Labour Rights Differences: How and Why EU and US Approaches
towards Labour Rights Conditionalities Diverge in Bangladesh's Garment Industry'
Dr Sarah Lieberman: 'GMOs and Horse Meat: How Supermarkets Decide what We Eat'
Ms Alena Sobotova: 'Covering the EU : Alone or Together? Cooperation Patterns of Brussels Press
Corps'
Panel 205: The Politics of Multilateralism in the UN: Emerging Groups in UN Politics
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G13
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Karen Smith
Prof Mary Farrell: 'The African Union within the UN: the Challenge of External Collective Action and
International Leadership for African States'
Dr Andrea Hoffmann: 'Latin American States' Cooperation at the United Nations General Assembly:
One for All and All for One?'
Dr Katie Laatikainen: 'The Alliance of Small Island States at the UN: The Challenge of Single Issue
Groups in Multilateral Politics'
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Panel 206: The EU's Influence on Domestic Change in Eastern Partnership Countries:
Lessons from the Field
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room 106
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Elena Korosteleva
Dr Esther Ademmer: 'Russia's Impact on EU Policy Transfer to Georgia and Armenia'
Dr Laure Delcour: 'Between Brussels and Moscow: Post-Soviet Countries and (Competing) Regionbuilding Projects in the Common Neighbourhood'
Dr Rilka Dragneva-Lewers: 'Of Pork and Politics: EU's Policy to the Eurasian Union'
Dr Kataryna Wolczuk: 'EU's Unexpected "Ideal Neighbour"? A Curious Case of Armenia's
Europeanisation'
Panel 209: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Regulatory
Convergence and Incentives
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G01
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Miguel Otero-Iglesias
Dr Katja Biedenkopf: 'What is Different This Time Around? EU-US Environmental Regulation in the
TTIP Negotiations'
Prof David Cleeton: 'Forecasting the Effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP) on Supply-Chain and Capital Investment Decisions'
Dr Maria Garcia: 'Squaring the Circle? Approaches to Intellectual Property Rights and the TTIP'
Dr Ana Ramalho: 'Intellectual Property in the TTIP: How Far May the EU Go?'
Panel 210: The EU and Domestic Change in Turkey
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G16
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Timofey Agarin
Dr Azime Asli Bilgin: 'Visa Free Travel For Turkish Citizens: An Acquired Right or a Favour?'
Dr Alexander Bürgin: 'Changes in Turkey's Irregular Migration Management: Why the EU Still
Matters'
Dr Asuman Göksel: 'Changing Modes of Administration: "Managing" EU Affairs in Turkey'
Panel 211: Local Perspectives on Europe II
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G04
Chair/Chair Discussant: Ms Alice Engl
Discussant: Mr Christopher Huggins
Dr Anil Awesti: '"European City" London? The Greater London Authority's EU Engagement'
Dr Anna Nikolaeva: 'A "Waiting Room" or a "Living Room"? Approaching the Issue of Intra-EU
Mobility and Cross-border Homelessness'
Dr Tom Verhelst: 'Local Governments in EU Decision-making: Supporters, Bench Warmers or
Playmakers?'
Panel 212: Exploring the Role of Ideas in the Europe of Knowledge: From Paradigm to
Blueprints
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G14
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Diana Beech
Discussant: Dr Julie Smith
Dr Nicola Francesco Dotti (Andre Spithoven & Bas Van Heur): 'The Brussels Research System:
Which Actors Participate in Framework Programme's Projects and how Has This Evolved during the
Last Decade?'
Dr Amelia Hadfield (Robert Summerby-Murray): 'Mobility Programmes: Educational Geography,
Vocational Demography, or European Demagogy?'
Mr Dragan Mihajlovic: 'Knowledge-Based Economy Paradigm in European Higher Education
Initiatives'
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Panel 213: Global Security Partnerships and Multi-Level Governance: The EU and
International Security Organisations
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G02
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Anna Dimitrova
Dr Carmen Gebhard (Simon Smith): 'Beyond Berlin Plus: EU-NATO Cooperation and the
Consequences of Informality'
Mr Eoin McNamara: 'From Consolidation to Contribution: Civil-Military Decision-Making and NATO
Burden-Sharing in Central and Eastern Europe'
Mr Thomas Renard: 'Partnering for Global Security: The EU, Strategic Partners and the Multilayered Approach'
Mr Nikola Tomic (Simon Smith): 'Understanding International Security Organizations: A
Comparison of Decision-Making in the PSC and the NAC'
Panel 214: European Union Law: Transnational & International
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G08
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Ester Herlin-Karnell
Dr Gerard Coffey: 'Resolving Conflicts of Jurisdiction in the Prosecution of Transnational Crimes'
Dr Mattias Derlén (Johan Lindholm): 'The Case Law of the European Court of Justice in Three
Dimensions: Empirical Perspectives on the Role of Case Law in EU Law'
Dr Istvan Erdos: 'Conflict of Values - Should We Rethink the Concept of Public Policy in EU Private
International Law?'
Panel 215: Challenging Heteronormativity in the EU
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G15
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou
Dr Uladzislau Belavusau: 'Fighting Homophobia via EU Non-Discrimination Law'
Prof Dimitry Kochenov: 'EU Families without a Right to Love'
Dr Alina Tryfonidou: 'Free Movement Law and the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships:
The Case for Mutual Recognition'
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Research Session 3: Monday 1 September, 15:40-17:10
Panel 301: Sovereignty in the European Union II
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G18
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Maria Cahill
Dr Daniel Augenstein: 'State Sovereignty, Economic Globalisation and the Politics of Human Rights'
Prof Matej Avbelj: 'Theorizing Sovereignty and European Union'
Dr Andrew Glencross (Cormac Mac Amhlaigh): 'A Tale of Two Sovereignties: Law, Political Science,
and the Evolving EU Constitutional Order'
Panel 302: Migrants, Immigrants and Asylum: European and National Politics and Policy
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G13
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Tesseltje de Lange
Dr Michael Johns: 'The "Polish Plumber Problem" Turns 10: An Assessment of a Decade of Intra-EU
Migration and Predictions for the Road Ahead'
Ms Sidonie Paris: 'The Blue Card Directive: Probing the Limits of EU Immigration Policy'
Dr Bernd Parusel: 'The Common European Asylum System - Failure or Progress?'
Dr Florian Trauner (Sarah Wolff): 'The Negotiation and Contestation of EU Migration Policy
Instruments: A Research Framework'
Panel 303: Energy and the Environment II
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G03
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Jenny Fairbrass
Dr Helene Dyrhauge: 'Danish Renewable Energies Policy through Time - Still an Environmental
Leader?'
Dr Brendan Flynn: 'Understanding the Politics of Europe's Offshore Electricity Grids: Is the EU
Supporting a Renewables-centric Energy Infrastructure or Building Bigger Markets for Electricity
Utilities?'
Ms Eva Öller (Karoline Steinbacher): 'Resting on Green Laurels? Challenges for "New Renewables"
in Austria'
Dr Israel Sandoval (Mischa Bechberger): 'Spain: The Rise and Fall of a Front-runner in the
Promotion of RES'
Panel 304: Education and the EU
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G09
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Egle Dagilyte
Prof Lyubov Fadeeva: 'Universities in Constructing of European Identity: Actors or Just Tools'
Mr Alexander Hoogenboom: 'Mobile Students as Catalysts for the Development of the EU Citizen as
Kantian Cosmopolitan'
Mr Eric Jeanpierre (Graeme Broadbent): 'The Experience of Law Students on the Erasmus Study
Exchange Programme - Impressions of Returning Students'
Miss Sonja Wolf: 'Minority Education in Schleswig-Holstein - Legal Provisions and Potential for
Transferability of a Model Case'
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Panel 712: Another Theory is Possible: Dissident Voices in Theorising Europe II
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G15
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Richard Whitman
Discussant: Prof Michael Smith
Dr Stefan Borg (Thomas Diez): 'EU/PoMo: Critical Reflections on Discourse (and) Analysis in
European Integration'
Prof Philomena Murray (Ian Manners): 'The End of the Nobel Narrative'
Prof Alex Warleigh-Lack: 'Rethinking Integration Theory: An Ecological Perspective'
Panel 713: CSDP Strategy II: CSDP and the Security Continuum
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G08
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Laura Chappell
Dr Anna Dimitrova: 'National Security versus Data Protection: A Transatlantic Gap?'
Dr Ana Juncos: 'EU Strategy in the Age of Drones'
Dr Jocelyn Mawdsley: 'The European Commission and the Internal / External Security Divide: Policy
Entrepreneurship and Unintended Consequences'
Dr Alistair Shepherd: 'CSDP and the Emerging European Security Continuum'
Panel 714: Law, Politics, Courts and Judges
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G16
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Tobias Nowak
Dr Simone Benvenuti: 'The Impact of Judicial Networks in the EU'
Dr Noreen O'Meara: 'The UK Supreme Court in Dialogue with Luxembourg and Strasbourg: Tracing
Dialogue within and beyond the Courtroom'
Panel 716: Party Politics in the EU
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G03
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr NoelleAnne O'Sullivan
Ms Camille Kelbel: 'Keeping the Gates Closed? National Parties and Candidate Selection for
European Elections'
Ms Nikoleta Kiapidou: 'Measuring Party Positions before and after the Eurozone Crisis: A New
Expert Survey Report'
Ms Roxana Mihaila: 'Crisis as Opportunity? National Parties Challenge EU Institutional Dynamics:
The Fiscal Compact Case'
Panel 717: Citizens' Access to Justice in Europe: The Principle of Effective Judicial
Protection in EU Law Post-Lisbon II
Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, Room G06
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou
Dr Mariolina Eliantonio: 'Effective Judicial Protection in an Integrated Administration: The Case of
"Composite Procedures"'
Ms Antigoni Fakonti (Sophie Stylianou): 'Taxpayers' Access to Justice vs. Access to/Exchange of
Taxpayers' Related Information: Whose Right to Access to what?'
Mrs Olga Georgiades: 'Effective Judicial Proection and Opportunities/Challenges for Citizens in
Cyprus in the Context of the Financial Crisis'
Prof Dimitry Kochenov: 'The European Union and Justice beyond the Law Sensu Stricto'
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Research Session 8: Wednesday 3 September, 09:30-11:00
Panel 801: Financial Accountability in the European Union: Building the Cathedral of EU
Legitimacy?
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G01
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Heidi Maurer
Prof Dr Hartmut Aden: 'Financial Accountability in the EU: The Evolving Multi-level Setting'
Dr Maria-Luisa Sanchez-Barrueco: 'De-pillarized Financial Accountability? The European Court of
Auditors and EU External Policies'
Mr Jacques Sciberras: 'EU Accountability and Audit Landscape Review - Addressing Gaps, Overlaps
and Challenges Identified by the European Court Of Auditors'
Dr Paul Stephenson: 'The European Court of Auditors: Towards More Efficient and Better-qualified
Management and Decision-making in Financial Control and Accountability?'
Panel 804: National Parliaments in the Financial Crisis: Challenges for Democratic
Governance
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G18
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Julie Smith
Mr Oliver Höing: 'Reinforcing the Asymmetry of Parliamentary Influence in EMU Policy-making: The
Role of National Parliaments in the ESM and EFSF'
Dr Ariella Huff (Anna Dzieszkowska): 'Budgeting as Usual? The Discursive Construction of EU
Economic Governance Measures in National Parliamentary Budget Debates'
Prof Uwe Puetter (Robert Csehi): 'Political Choice and Limits Imposed by Financial Markets:
Understanding the Nexus of National Executives, Parliamentary Control and EU Decision-making'
Panel 805: EU-China/Asia Relations VI: New Perspectives and Future Directions
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G03
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Tomasz Kaminski
Discussant: Miss Tian Yan
Dr Jinsha Deng (Dongyi Li & Fujian Li): 'A Comparative Analysis of Models of China–EU Relations:
Bilateral or Multilateral?'
Dr Antonella Forganni: 'EU and China Roles in the UNCTAD Framework'
Dr Wenwen Shen: 'Competing or in Unison? EU and Member States' Relations with China Since the
Lisbon Treaty: the Case of "16+1"'
Prof Wei Shen (Pete Gries & Albrecht Sonntag): 'How Identities and Ideologies Shape European
Attitudes towards China'
Panel 806: The EaP: Assessing the Region's Future
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G04
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Richard Whitman
Dr Laure Delcour: 'EU-Caucasus Relations, Russia and the EaP'
Prof Elena Korosteleva: 'EU-Belarus Relations, Eurasia and the EaP'
Ms Irina Petrova (Stephan Keukeleire): 'Competing Regionalism in Wider Europe: What
Implications to the "New Regionalism"?'
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Panel 808: The EU's Role in Development Policy
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G13
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Niall Duggan
Miss Milena Elsinger: 'A Challenge to the European Development Consensus? The Influence of
Emerging Donors on the Development Policies of the European Union'
Dr Patrick Holden: 'Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet? The European Union and the Post-2015
Global Development Agenda'
Dr Mark Langan (Sophia Price): 'West Africa, Europe & the EPA Development Programme'
Mr Joren Verschaeve (Sarah Delputte & Jan Orbie): 'The European Union and Policy Coherence for
Development: A Norm Maker in the OECD-DAC?'
Panel 809: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: A Framework for
Progress
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G02
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof David Cleeton
Dr Leif Johan Eliasson: 'Rule-making and Achieving Global Standards through TTIP'
Dr Patricia Garcia-Duran (Montserrat Millet): 'The TTIP from an EU Trade Policy Perspective'
Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge (Ferdi de Ville): 'Trading Ourselves Out of Recession? A Critical Reflection
on the Proposed EU-US Free Trade Agreement'
Panel 810: Cyprus: The Internal, Comparative & Geo-Economic Considerations
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G14
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Jo Shaw
Mr Fadil Ersozer: 'Economic Crisis and Hydrocarbons: Is This the Right Time to Solve the Cyprus
Problem?'
Mr Lambros George Kaoullas (Michalis Stavri): 'An Unknown Story of Two Conflict-Ridden European
Islands: Common Experiences of Irish and Cypriot Political Prisoners in British Prisons'
Dr George Kyris: 'Europeanisation and "Internalised" Conflicts: The Case of Cyprus'
Panel 811: Comparing Macro-Regional Strategies and Macro-Regions in the European
Union
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G15
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Gunter Walzenbach
Prof Attila Agh: 'The Danube Strategy as a Vehicle for the European Renewal'
Prof Mike Danson: 'Partnerships, Networking and Macro-regional Dimensions: Scotland and its
Neighbours'
Prof Stefan Gänzle: 'Priority Area Coordinators and Horizontal Action Leaders in EU Macro-region
Strategies Trans-governmental Networks in the Making?'
Dr Anna Molnar: 'Towards an EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Macro-region'
Panel 812: Europeanisation, Internationalisation and the Transformation of European
Higher Education
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G08
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Lee McGowan
Dr Gangolf Braband: 'The Founding of the University of Luxembourg: National Debates in European
and International Contexts'
Dr Dorota Dakowska: 'Europeanisation and Beyond: Polish Higher Education between Local and
Global Dynamics'
Ms Ligia Deca: 'Discursive Strategies in the Reform of Romanian Higher Education: Uses of
European and International Norms'
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Panel 816: Online Politicisation: New Media Dynamics of Contesting EU Legitimacy
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G17
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Ian Manners
Dr Anamaria Dutceac Segesten (Michael Bossetta): 'EU-Skepticism Online: A Comparative Content
Analysis of Two Online Platforms from Sweden and Denmark'
Mr Evangelos Fanoulis (Anasol Peña-Ríos): 'EU UGovernment & E-Democracy: A Solution for More
Civil Participation in EU Policy-Making?'
Mrs Ancuta Gabriela Tarta: 'The Polite European Public: Chatting with the MEPs on Facebook'
Prof Hans-Joerg Trenz: 'Globalised Media and Trans-nationalised Politics - A Public Sphere Approach
of Online Public Opinion Formation in the European Union'
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Research Session 9: Wednesday 3 September, 11:30-13:00
Panel 901: European Union: Intelligence Cooperation, Transparency and Openness
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G17
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Vincent Keating
Dr Maja Brkan: 'Fundamental Rights in Digital World: Back to the Future?'
Dr James Cross (Joergen Boelstad): 'Openness and Censorship in the EU: Evidence from an
Interrupted Time-Series Analysis'
Prof Artur Gruszczak: 'Epistemic or Phronetic? On the Problem of Studying Intelligence Cooperation
in the European Union'
Mr Stephen Lea: 'Institutional Approaches to Transparency and Access to Documents: A
Retrogressive Policy Arena?'
Panel 906: The EaP: Assessing the Region's Future
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G04
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Elena Korosteleva
Prof Joan DeBardeleben: 'EU-Russia, Eurasia and the EaP'
Mr Hrant Kostanyan: 'EU, Eurasia, and the EaP'
Ms Irina Petrova (Kolja Raube): 'Functions, Objectives and Practice of Parliamentary Networks in
EU External Governance: The Case of Interparliamentary Cooperation in "Euronest"'
Panel 907: European Diplomacy Post-Lisbon III: EU Actorness and the Impact of
Transforming Diplomatic Practices
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G15
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Heidi Maurer
Discussant: Prof Ben Tonra
Ms Dorina Baltag: 'Assessing EU Diplomatic Performance in Third Countries: Measuring EU's
Effectiveness, Relevance and Capability'
Dr Michal Natorski: 'The Local Dimension of Global Multilateralism: The EU Relations with
International Organizations in Ukraine'
Prof Michael H Smith: 'Strategic Diplomacy in Action: The EU and the BRICs'
Panel 908: Emerging EU's International Identity in the Post-Lisbon Era: EU's Relationship
with Israel and the Palestinian Authority
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room 106
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Wybe Douma
Dr Rachel Frid de Vries (Wybe Douma): 'Normative Power Europe and the Israeli Palestinian
Conflict - Balancing Power and Weakness'
Mr Alfred Kellermann: 'Effects of the Quality of Legislation on the Approximation of Laws between
Israel and the EU'
Dr Nellie Munin: 'EU Guidelines Regarding Activities by Israel in the Occupied Territories: A
Diplomatic Achievement or a Pyrrhic Victory?'
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Panel 910: The Central and Eastern European Member States in the EU's Emerging Coreperiphery Divide
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G18
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Christian Schweiger
Discussant: Prof Beata Farkas
Prof Attila Agh: 'Differentiated Membership and Core-Periphery Divide in the EU: Negativeregressive Divergence in the New Member States'
Prof Darina Malová (Pavol Babos): 'How to Get from the Periphery: Compliance with the Maastricht
Rules in Slovakia'
Dr Anna Visvizi (Pawel Tokarski): 'Poland's Eurozone Entry Strategy as a Case in Managing
Differentiated Integration in the Post-crisis EU'
Panel 911: Awkward States in Regional Integration: Europe, Asia and Beyond?
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G02
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Emil Kirchner
Dr Malin Stegmann McCallion: 'An Awkward Partner in the North? Sweden between Nordic Identity
and EU Economy'
Dr Hana Umezawa: 'Awkward States in Asian and European Integration - The Case of Japan, and
beyond'
Prof Alex Warleigh-Lack (Philomena Murray): 'Awkward States in Regional Integration: Towards a
Comparative Framework for Evaluation'
Panel 912: What Does European Integration Stand For? Perspectives from European
Regions
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G08
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Ada-Charlotte Regelmann
Dr Tanja Mayrgündter: 'Where Do Iceland, the Western Balkans and Turkey Go? Nationalisation of
the Enlargement Project'
Dr Lee McGowan: 'Shake It All About! Northern Ireland and the British-EU Hokey-cokey'
Dr Nicole Scicluna: 'Rising Euroscepticism and the Fragmentation of "Core Europe"'
Panel 913: CSDP Strategy III: Strategic Reform Drivers and Priorities
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G14
Chair/Chair Discussant: Prof Dr Sven Biscop
Dr Laura Chappell (Petar Petrov): 'A Civilian European Strategic Culture? Assessing the EU's Peace
Project Basis'
Prof David Galbreath (Simon Smith): 'The Drivers of Contemporary Strategic Reform in Europe:
Planning for beyond the Financial Crisis?'
Dr Steven Robinson: 'Portugal and Security Co-operation in the Lusophone Word: Conflicting or
Complementary Strategic Priorities for European Security Policy?'
Prof Michael E Smith: 'The Case for an EU Maritime Capability as a Priority for the CSDP'
Panel 915: European Space Policy
Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G13
Chair/Chair Discussant: Dr Geoffrey Edwards
Dr Antonella Forganni: 'The Contribution of the European Court of Justice in the Development of
the EU Space Policy'
Prof Thomas Hörber: 'Chaos or Consolidation - the way to ESA'
Dr Lorna Ryan: 'Governance of European Space Policy and the Scientific Citizen'
Dr Paul Stephenson: 'Trans-European Networks in Space Policy'
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