THE CONFERENCE IN BRIEF

The conference will explore the theme of the new European 'geopolitical' identity, as shaped by the renewed international competition: the revisionisms along its borders, the gopolitical instabilities in its neighbourhood. The purpose of the conference is to bring together experts from different European contexts, which will outline the positions of their respective sub-regions (with their specific political ethos), in terms of how the EU operates, on the basis of which values, vis à vis the biggest security issues in its area of responsibility.

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WHAT TO EXPECT?

The speakers will present their vision of the foundations of EU’s foreign policy, and its place in the international arena.

The geopolitical crises in the international system require the EU to undertake a big effort of re-thinking its geopolitical identity, to face deeply rooted identitarian doubts. Some leaders like Emmanuel Macron are trying to craft a new geopolitical identity for the EU; Central-Eastern leaders are trying to influence this identity on the basis of their historical experience; experts from Candidate countries will provide as well their insights on what local civil societies expect from the EU.

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WHEN AND WHERE?

March 10th 2025, from 17:00 til 19:00
Room 3, Teaching Hub (via Corridoni, 20) - Forlì Campus, University of Bologna

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OUR GUESTS

• Vincent Della Sala: Vincent Della Sala is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe; Professor of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento;; Director; Centro Jean Monnet, University of Trento.

• Kamil Zwolski: Jean Monnet Professor of European Security; Director of Centre for Comprehensive European Security; National Teaching Fellow and Senior Fellow Advance HE; Associate Professor of International Politics, University of Southampton, UK.

• Alina Mungiu-Pippidi: Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Department of Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome; Honorary President of Romanian Academic Society;  Chairs of the multi-site European Research Centre for Anticorruption and State-Building (ERCAS); Academic Coordinator of BridgeGap, a large EU Horizon project.

• Sonia Lucarelli: Professor at the University of Bologna, member of the Board of Directors of the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War and of the Institute of International Affairs;  Responsible for Unibo of the Memorandum between the Unibo and NATO Allied Command Transformation; Representative of Unibo in the Consortium Europaeum; Team Leader in the project GLOBUS: Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice (Horizon 2020).