Interdisciplinary Approaches to European Security
Project description
The return to power politics due to the ongoing erosion of the architecture for transatlantic security has created the need for interdisciplinary collaboration on identifying and addressing existing and emerging challenges to the European security. How will the interaction of new threats and changing architecture impact the EU ability to formulate and implement a coherent defense policy? Which of the emerging threats could potentially be game-changing for EU defense policy priorities and its relations with key allies and/or international organizations? Will a post-COVID international environment provide a new set of alliances? Will it contribute to the rise of a new set of actors capable of challenging the European security?
The sponsor will welcome proposals that bridge international relations with public health, technology, bio-engineering, robotics, economics, organizational studies, demography, psychology or other fields that can provide valuable insights into the ongoing global transformation that can have long-term implications for the European and/or transatlantic security. The ideal candidates will have a solid understanding of international relations theories and additional training in another discipline. Familiarity with big data or computational approaches and/or practical policy experience is a plus. The research will be conducted on the premises of the Institute for European Studies and Vesalius College, both are part of the VUB.
About the research Group
Institute for European Studies
The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is an academic Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and a policy think tank that focuses on the European Union in an international setting. The Institute advances academic education and research in various disciplines, and provides services to policy-makers, scholars, stakeholders and the general public.
The IES specifically explores EU institutions, policies and law within the context of globalization and global governance, including a focus on the EU in international affairs and institutions. The disciplines applied at the IES include law, social/political sciences, economics and communication sciences, and the Institute’s activities focus on the various ways in which institutions, law and politics intersect with each other in the EU, its member states and at the international level.
Academic work at the IES is organised in clusters, but is also pursued through horizontal activities cutting across them. Currently, there are the following five clusters:
- International Security
- Environment and sustainable development
- Migration, diversity and justice
- European economic governance
- Educational Development