What is VISIONS?

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Visions and practices of geopolitics in the European Union and its neighborhood (VISIONS) is a finished research project (September 2018 - September 2021) which was designed to investigate the current rapidly changing geopolitical landscape of the EU and its near neighborhood and analyze its consequences. 

 

Its focus was on researching how geopolitics may contribute to the empowerment of determined social actors or, conversely, the disempowerment, marginalization or securitization of other social groups such as women, migrants or ethno-linguistic minorities.

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Researchers

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Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués (PI), Associate Professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, CIS Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), and member of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy (Spain).

 

Dr. Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor of International Relations of Europe in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics.

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Dr. Münevver Cebeci, Associate Professor at the European Studies Institute, Marmara University in Istanbul.

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Dr. Nina Græger, Senior Research Fellow at NUPI and Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, MSc programme in IR.

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Dr. Xavier Guillaume, Assistant Professor at University of Groningen's Department of International Relations and International Organization.

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Adrià Rivera Escartin, PhD candidate at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, under the supervision of Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués. 

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Dr. Michael Smith, Professor in European Politics at the University of Warwick.

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Dr. Benjamin Tallis, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague.

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Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of international security at the department of political science and public administration of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Dr. Federica Zardo, Assistant Professor at University of Vienna's Institute for European Integration Research.

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Dr. Hani Anouti, Assistant Professor at Haigazian University (HU) Lebanon (incorporation 2019) and a consultant for several International Organizations and INGOs.

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Aitor Bonsoms, PhD candidate at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, under the supervision of Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués.

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Sietse Papenborg, Research assistant at IBEI.

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Fatimah Saadi, PhD candidate in Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) under the joint supervision of Dr. Tània Verge Mestre and Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués.

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Elena Shymanska, Research assistant at IBEI.

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Publications

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• Anouti, Hani and Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth (2019), "The EU’s pursuit of ‘resilience’ in southern Mediterranean countries: Opportunities and Challenges", FEMISE, Med Brief no 18, March 2019. Accessible here.

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• Græger, Nina (2019), "Illiberalism, geopolitics, and middle power security: Lessons from the Norwegian case", International Journal, 74:1, pp. 84-102. See abstract.

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• Græger, Nina (2018), "Need to have or nice to have? Nordic cooperation, NATO and the EU in Norwegian foreign, security and defence policy", Global Affairs, 4:4-5, 363-376. See abstract.

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• Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth (2020), "The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League (Chapter 6)" in Laatikainen, Katie and Smith, Karen (Eds.) Group Politics in UN Multilateralism, Brill. For more information see here.

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• Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth (2020), "Group Politics and the Question of Palestinian Recognition in the UN System (Chapter 15)" in Laatikainen, Katie and Smith, Karen (Eds.) Group Politics in UN Multilateralism, Brill. For more information see here​.

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• Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth and Rivera Escartin, Adrià (2020), "Supporting the Tunisian transition? Analysing (in)consistencies in EU democracy assistance with a tripartite nexus model", Democratization. Accessible here.

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• Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth; Vlaskamp, Martijn and Barbé, Esther (Eds.) (2020), "European Union contested: foreign policy in a new global context", Springer. For more information see here.

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• Rivera Escartin, Adrià (2020), "Populist challenges to EU foreign policy in the Southern Neighbourhood: an informal and illiberal Europeanisation?", Journal of European Public Policy, 27:8, pp. 1195-1214. See abstract.

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• Smith, Michael (2018), "Does the Flag Still Follow Trade? Agency, Politicization and External Opportunity Structures in the Post-Lisbon System of EU Diplomacy", The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 13:1, pp. 41-56. See abstract.

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• Wagner, Wolfgang; Pelaez, Luis; Raunio, Tapio and van de Koppel, Maartje (2021), "The party politics of the EU’s relations with the USA: evidence from the European Parliament", European Security, 30:3, pp. 418-438. Accessible here.

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• Zardo, Federica (2020), "The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Geopolitical Space Making through Migration Policy Instruments", Geopolitics. Accessible here.​​