[Conference] European Integration and the War in Ukraine: Just Another Crisis? with Tanja Börzel

Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review – 2023 Lecture

Hosted by Center of European Studies and Comparative Politics, Center for International Studies and School of Publics Affairs.

As in previous crises, the EU has been coping with its first military security crisis by using its regulatory power to facilitate the joint exercise of fiscal and coercive power by the member states. Yet, the outcome of this crisis differs. It has not resulted in a strengthening of the EU’s regulatory powers as we have seen it in the Euro crisis. Unlike in the Covid-19 crisis, the member states have not been willing to give the EU more fiscal power to finance the financial assistance for Ukraine either. At the same time, intergovernmental cooperation has not been deadlocked by member states’ refusal of solidarity that has derailed joint decision-making in the Schengen crisis. The lecture will explore the extent to which the political mobilization of particular identity constructions related to questions of order rather than borders in framing the Ukraine crisis can help explain why member states have upgraded their common interest in supporting Ukraine without granting the EU additional power.

Speaker

Tanja Börzel, Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel is professor of political science and holds the Chair for European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. She earned a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Prof. Dr. Börzel is director of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” . She is also the head of the Berlin Center for European Studies, which hosted the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence „Europe and its Citizens“ as well as several research consortia funded by the EU (MAXCAP, EUSTRAT, EULISTCO). Between 2006 and 2019, she conducted several research projects in the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: New Modes of Governance” and the Researcg College “Transformative Power of Europe”.

Professor Börzel’s research focus and teaching experience lie in the field of European Integration, Governance, and Diffusion research. She concentrates on questions of institutional change as a result of Europeanization as well as on the diffusion of European ideas and policies within and outside the EU. She studies how and under what conditions the EU promotes institutions and policy programs in and outside of Europe, and what mechanisms of diffusion are applied. She researches global processes of diffusion and resulting transformational changes inside the EU and its member states. In her recent research, she investigates the contestation of liberal norms, such as academic freedom, within democratic societies.

Professor Börzel’s most important publications include "The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism” (Oxford University Press 2016, co-edited with Thomas Risse), “The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Areas of Limited Statehood” (Oxford University Press 2018, co-edited with Thomas Risse and Anke Draude), “Effective Governance Under Anarchy. Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood,” with Thomas Risse (Cambridge University Press 2021), and “Why Noncompliance. Law and Politics in the European Union” (Cornell University Press 2021).

Introduction

Theofanis Exadaktylos, University of Surrey

Chair

Florence Faucher, Sciences Po, CEE

Discussants

Jan Rovny, Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP

Christian Lequesne, Sciences Po, CERI