Organised by the Graduate Institute and the Pierre du Bois Foundation
Held with the support of the Fonds National Suisse (FNS)

The organisers of this conference wish to provide a framework for reflection on developments and realignments in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Eastern enlargement of the European Union.
 

The conference proposes to explore changes and continuities by analyzing the transformations in Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain and by contextualizing EU Eastern enlargement within the long-term development of European integration up to the present. The conference will also examine the interaction between these transformations, Eastern enlargement and other changes that have occurred in international politics since the early 1990s.
 

The impact of these changes will be explored within the following themes:

• The emergence of a European political space, within the EU and beyond its borders: Russia and Europe, the Caucasus and Europe, the Balkans and Europe, but also the role of other European organizations, notably the Council of Europe, as well as EU member-states in Europe or Europe in the world.
• The internal functioning of the EU: the impact of the accession of new member-states on European institutions and relations between member-states, the impact on the role of non-state actors and civil society.
• The development of EU external relations: relations with the United States - within NATO and beyond - and Russia as well as with the EU's new neighbours in the East and the countries of the Mediterranean region, relations with the rising powers of India and China and less developed states, also in the context of globalization.
• Visions and expectations regarding Europe and the European integration process: perceptions of an enlarged EU and its long-term development expressed by intellectuals as well as official discourse and public opinion. This perspective will allow us to address a number of issues including the impact of the communist heritage or the rise of Euro-scepticism.

Programme

Thursday 14 October - morning
9.00 – 9.15 Registration

9.15 – 9.30 Welcome addresses   

I Enlargement and the Internal Functioning of the European Union
9.30 – 9.45 Dirk Leuffen, ETH Zürich
The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on the Internal Functioning of the EU: Why So Much Stability?

9.45 – 10.00 Wolfram Kaiser, University of Portsmouth
Political Parties in the European Polity: Eastern Enlargement in Historical Perspective.

10.00 – 10.15 Antonio Varsori, University of Padua
Italy and the German Reunification.

10.15 – 10.45 Discussion

10.45 – 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 – 11.35 Artur Gruszczak, Jagiellonian University
In Search of Order – EU Security Governance as a New Divide.

11.35 – 11.50 Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
The Politics of Commemoration at EU Level. Can Europeans ‘Remember’ Together?

11.50 – 12.05 Ilaria Poggiolini, University of Pavia
Reflections on Enlargement and Euroscepticism in Europe: From “Second Europe” to Post-Cold War Europe.

12.05 – 12.35 Discussion

12.35 – 14.15 Lunch break

Thursday 14 October - afternoon
II Enlargement, European Defence and External Relations

14.15 – 14.30 Gérard Bossuat, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Les voies obscures de l'influence de l'Union européenne dans le monde.

14.30 – 14.45 Basil Germond, University of Central Lancashire
The European Union’s Geopolitical Discourse: Rhetoric and Practice.

14.45 – 15.00 Brigitte Leucht, University of Oxford
Actorness and Enlargement in Historical Perspective.

15.00 – 15.30 Discussion

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 16.15 Katrin Rücker, University of Geneva
Transatlantic Relations in a Historical Perspective: The GATT/WTO and the Successive Enlargements of the European Communities.

16.15 – 16.30 Gilles Grin, Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe
La défense commune dans une Union européenne élargie : illusion ou réalité naissante ?

16.30 – 16.45 Marek Neuman, University of Groningen
The Czech Republic's EU Accession: A Shift-Producing Variable in the EU's Foreign Policy towards Russia?

16.45 – 17.15 Discussion

17:15 – 18:15 Cocktail

Friday 15 October - morning
III European Political Space Beyond the European Union

9.00 – 9.15 Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome III
Europe and the Yugoslav Crisis.

9.15 – 9.30 Ruxandra Stoicescu, Independent Researcher, working with Swiss Network for International Studies and Radio Suisse
South East Europe in EU Foreign Policy Articulations.

9.30 – 9.45 Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews
The Losers of Europe after 1990: What Hope is there for Countries like Moldova – Reflections from Theory and Practice.

9.45 – 10.00 Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
Russia and the Idea of Europe: Twenty Years after the Soviet Collapse.

10.00 – 10.40 Discussion

10.40 – 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 – 11.25 Özcan Yilmaz, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Les effets du processus d’adhésion à l’UE sur les institutions, la politique et la société turques.

11.25 – 11.40 Paul Kubicek, Oakland University
The Meaning and Limits of a United Europe: The Problematic Case of Turkey.
11.40 – 12.00 Discussion

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch break

Friday 15 October - afternoon

IV Visions of Europe: The New Europe in the Eyes of the Europeans

13.30 – 13.45 Michel Fulop, Corvinus University
De la périphérie à la périphérie: des marges de l'empire soviétique aux marges de l'Occident, 1989-2009.

13.45 – 14.00 Mare Van den Eeden, Central European University
Visions of Europe from a Central European Perspective, 1980s to Present.

14.00 – 14.15 Emilia Robin Hivert, University Paris IV
L'attitude des communistes européens à l'égard de l'Europe élargie.

14.15 – 14.45 Discussion

14.45 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 15.30 Axel Marion, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
De la frontière fixe aux limites indéfinies: les espaces européens en question après la chute du bloc de l'Est.

15.30 – 15.45 Sophie Huber, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
1989: l'Europe communautaire et ses Autres à l'Est et au Sud.

15.45 – 16.00 Katrin Milzow, Pierre du Bois Foundation
Compromise and Solidarity within the European Union of 27.

16.00 – 16.30 Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Concluding discussion

17.00 – 18.00 Cocktail

No registration required
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