The European Union and the Pursuit of Global Governance in a Multi-Polar, Fractured World

December 8th, 2023

CONFERENCE AGENDA

The European Union and the Pursuit of Global Governance in a Multi Polar, Fractured World

Friday 8 December 2023

Centre Panthéon, Salle 216, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris

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Programme

9:15 Welcome by Nicholas Sowels , Senior Lecturer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

The challenges of the war in Ukraine

9:30 Interparliamentary cooperation in the EU in the face of the war in Ukraine

Michał Dulak, Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University

9:50 Between a rock and a hard place: the impact of rule of law backsliding on the EU's response to the Russo Ukrainian war

Benedetta Lobina, PhD candidate, University College Dublin

10:10 How the Western capital markets and investors have financed or otherwise contributed to the war machine of Russia in the last decade

Bahram Soltani, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

10:30 Discussion and break

EU relations with the United States and United Kingdom

11:00 Governance and policy implications of the Inflation Reduction Act and its European response

Maria Latorre, Professor, and David Suarez Cuesta , PhD student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (online communication)

11:20 The changing relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom after Brexit

Nicholas Sowels, Senior Lecturer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The international order and geoeconomics

11:40 The European Union's efforts to uphold the international rules based order: a mission impossible?

Jan Wouters , Full Professor, KU Leuven

12:00 The European Union's geoeconomics tools in an Multi Polar World

Unai Gómez Hernández , PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven

12:20 Discussion

12:45 Lunch at "Le Club" in the Sorbonne building

Climate, migration and the Artic

2:15 The European Union in its pursuit of being a global leader in the area of climate neutrality and renewable energy development

Olesia Tkachuk, Assistant Lecturer, Jagiellonian University

2:40 European Union w ater d iplomacy: a tool to strengthen the EU s soft power on environmental governance

Ignacio Álvarez Arcá, Lecturer, Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Madrid

3:00 A safer and more sustainable Artic: h ow the European Union can underpin governance and international law

Elena Conde Pérez, Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

3:20 The European Union on the Arctic chessboard: the potential key role of the EU to defuse tensions in the Arctic through science d iplomacy

Irene Ballesteros, lawyer and PhD candidate, Institute of Peace and Conflict (IPAZ), University of Granada (online communication)

3:40 Discussion

4:00 Break

Peace and defence

4:30 European Union peace capacities and mediation: an analysis of EU's integration of the Women, Peace, and Security and Youth, Peace, and Security Agendas

Jusaima Moaid-azm Peregrina, Researcher, University of Granada and University of Salamanca (online communication)

4:50 Towards autonomous defence capacities of the European Union: upgrading the cyberspace policy

Eimys Ortiz-Hernandez, Lecturer, University of Lleida

5:10 Discussion and conclusion of the conference

5:30 End of conference