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Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2007
 Common Values - External Policies
UACES 37th Annual Conference and 12th Research Conference

Invited Speakers

In addition to the research papers to be presented at Portsmouth, there are a number of invited speakers; their biographies appear after the summary below.

Plenary 1 - EU-Africa

Plenary 2 - Human Rights and Religion: Common Values for Europe

JCMS Annual Review Lecture - Politics of Legal Integration in the EU


 Prof Richard Bellamy

University College London, UK

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy, University College London (UCL), University of London. He has written extensively on European thought and on constitutionalism and citizenship in the EU, as well as legal and political theory more generally. Recent publications include Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (Routledge, 1999); Rethinking Liberalism (Continuum, 2000, 2005) and (as co-editor) The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought (CUP, 2003); Citizenship and Governance in the EU (Continuum, 2001, 2005); Lineages of European Citizenship (Palgrave, 2004) and Making European Citizens (Palgrave, 2006). His Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy will be published by Cambridge University Press in September 2007.


Prof Anthony Chafer

University of Portsmouth, UK

Tony Chafer is Director of the Centre for European & International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The End of Empire In French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonisation? (Berg 2002) and has written widely on Franco-African relations in the postcolonial era.


 Dr Lisa Conant

University of Denver, USA

Lisa Conant is associate professor of political science at the University of Denver and author of the book, Justice Contained: Law and Politics in the European Union (Cornell University Press). Her research examines the impact of European Court of Justice decisions on politics in EU member states, the Europeanization of judicial institutions, and transformations in the rights and obligations of citizenship that derive from EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and has engaged in research as a fellow at the Free University of Berlin and European University Institute.

ABSTRACT for Conference Presentation
 The Politics of Legal Integration
Legal integration is credited as one of the forces promoting the development of the European Union (EU) and its institutions. The Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) and the legal system it constructed are also heralded as the most state-like features of the EU within debates about the character of the EU as an international institution, form of supranational governance, or emerging federal state. Scholarly interest in the politics of legal integration originated with the puzzle that a supranational court had transcended state sovereignty. Parallel to broader debates between intergovernmentalists and neofunctionalists, an international relations debate between rational choice institutionalists and neofunctionalists ensued as scholars adapted theories of international organisation to frame explanations. This literature conceptualises the EU as an international institution and examines the relative power of supranational and national institutions. Meanwhile interest in EU judicial politics coincided with a newfound interest in the role of courts around the world, and political scientists began to study legal integration in light of domestic public-law literatures. An increasing number of scholars have adopted a comparative approach, developing arguments that are relevant to national courts and the ECJ as they explore how the EU legal system privileges and disadvantages various societal actors. I will argue that the EU legal system shares a closer institutional affinity with domestic, rather than international, legal systems. As a result, future scholarship could more fruitfully explore the dynamics of legal integration by taking theoretical inspiration from the nuanced studies of judicial politics in domestic settings.


 Dr Emma Haddad

European Commission, DG Justice, Freedom & Security

Dr Emma Haddad obtained her Ph.D from the LSE, for which she was awarded the British International Studies Association prize for the best thesis in International Studies, 2004.  Her book, Between Sovereigns: The Refugee in International Society, is due to be published by CUP in January 2008.  Her research interests include the conceptualisation of the refugee figure in the states system and the English School.  Recent publications have seen contributions to Global Society, the International Journal of Human Rights, the Encyclopaedia of International Relations and Global Politics, and The Future of Europe – Uniting Vision, Values and Citizens?  She currently works in DG JLS of the European Commission where she specialises in the external dimension of migration and asylum.

ABSTRACT for Conference Presentation
The Global Approach to Migration: In search of a migration and development agenda with Africa
Although migration has traditionally been an issue of domestic policy and politics, the external dimension of EU migration policy has gained increasing importance and visibility in recent years. It remains high on every Council and European Council agenda, and Member States are looking more and more to the Commission to respond. The focus at EU level now rests to a large degree on working with countries of origin and transit. Such is the aim of the ‘Global Approach to Migration’, a tool developed under the UK Presidency in 2005 and the latest way to give expression to the external relations of migration. Specifically, the Global Approach has until now been used to try to foster partnerships in migration policy with African states and regional organisations, and attempts to bring together the domains of migration policy and development policy have been a key part of this agenda.
These policy developments raise a number of pressing questions for scholars, among which: what has the Global Approach meant for the EU’s relations with African states regarding migration and asylum? What implications has it had for the once clear distinctions between the domestic and the international and for the sovereign borders of Member States? What does this policy approach signify in normative terms? How can the English School of International Relations help shed light on the way in which EU international society formulates external migration policy? And is externalisation just another means for Member States to exert control over their borders from a distance, or are states being socialised to think more comprehensively?


 Prof Peter Katjavivi

Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Namibia, Germany

Professor Peter Katjavivi has dedicated his life to the cause of social justice. He played a prominent role in the liberation struggle of Namibia, building international support through diplomatic activity. He used the opportunity of academic research to investigate and write about Namibia’s history. He was a member of the country’s Constituent Assembly and signatory to the Independence Constitution. He has been involved in nation building, and has been in the forefront of higher education in Namibia, transforming a previously segregated academic institution into a national university with relevant programmes that are increasingly accessible to all Namibians. He has highly developed skills in managing diversity, promoting consensus and networking. He serves and has served on the boards of various international bodies and associations in the educational and political sphere. He believes in building bridges, is a good listener and is himself very accessible. He has a particular interest in the strengthening of civil society to enhance good governance and democracy and is also active in this field in the SADC region.

ABSTRACT for Conference Presentation
 The Role of EU-Africa Relations within the Cotonou Framework
After sketching briefly the history of the ACP-EU partnership, Professor Katjavivi will focus his presentation on the fears and concerns of the member states within the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Grouping.
The presentation will reflect the difficulty experienced by developing countries in their negotiations with the European Commission, particularly with regard to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
Katjavivi will urge that the Economic Partnership Agreements with a strong development dimension are vitally important to SADC, Africa and ACP as a whole.  Furthermore, Katjavivi will conclude on the need for EU-Africa Relations to be built on a clear understanding of each other’s concerns.  Above all, ongoing consultations and respect for diverse interests are the prerequisite for sustainable partnership.

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Mr Roger Liddle

Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), European Commission

Roger Liddle is currently a Principal Adviser in the President of the Commission's think tank, the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. In that position he advises President Barroso on economic and social questions and has authored BEPA papers on the Single Market: Yesterday and Tomorrow and Europe's Social Reality. He joined the Commission in October 2004 as a member of Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson's cabinet. Prior to that he was from 1997 European adviser to Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister. He authored The Blair Revolution ( Faber 1996) with Peter Mandelson; The New Case for Europe (Fabian Society 2005) and Global Europe, Social Europe with Tony Giddens and Patrick Diamond (Polity 2006). He was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and The Queen's College Oxford from which he gained an MA in Modern History and an M Phil in Management Studies. He is married to Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer at the BBC, and they have one 18 year old son, Andrew.


Prof Ulrike Liebert

University of Bremen, Germany

Professor of Political Science, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, University of Bremen.
PhD at the European University Institute, Florence (1983), teaching and research at the Universities Autonoma de Barcelona, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Cornell/Ithaca N.Y.. Current research projects: “Reconstituting democracy in Europe” (RECON, 6th EU-FP 2007-11); “Constituting European citizenship and the public sphere” (ConstEPS, Volkswagen Foundation 2005-8);  “US – EU Transatlantic Dialogue”.  Most recent publications: “Europe in Contention: Debating the Constitutional Treaty”, editor of special issue: Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 3/2007. “The Politics of Social Europe and the Lisbon Process”, in: A European Social Solidarity? Multiple Europes. Eds. Bo Strath & Lars Magnusson,  Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang 2007. “Transnationalising the Public Sphere? The European Parliament, Promises and Anticipations.” In: The European Union and the Public Sphere: A Communicative Space in the Making? Eds. John Erik Fossum, Philip Schlesinger, Routledge 2007. Postnational Constitutionalisation in the New Europe, eds., with J. Falke, A. Maurer: Baden-Baden: Nomos 2006. Gendering Europeanization. Multiple Europes No. 19, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang 2003.


Dr Gorm Rye Olsen

Roskilde University, Denmark

Gorm Rye Olsen is Head of the Department of Society and Globalisation, University of Roskilde. He has published extensively on the external relations of the EU and on Africa in international relations. His most recent book is Africa and the North. Between globalization and marginalization, Routledge 2005, his most recent article is: “The post-September 2001 Security Agenda: Have the EU’s Policies on Africa been Affected?” in: G. Bono (ed.) The Impact of 9/11 on European Foreign and Security Policy, VUB Press Brussels 2006. Currently he is working on the changing relationship between the EU and Africa and in particular on the new role of Africa in international security politics.

ABSTRACT for Conference Presentation
 Effective Foreign Policy without Sovereignty: The European Union's Policy towards Africa
The EU Strategy for Africa' from 2005 has an explicit political aim to improve coordination, coherence and consistency of the Union's policies and instruments aimed at Africa. The presentation discusses the extent to which this aim has been fulfilled. It uses the ESDP/CFSP initiatives towards Africa as the baseline for evaluating, if the EU is able to develop an effective foreign policy towards Africa. Development assistance, humanitarian aid and trade policy are measured against the ESDP/CFSP initiatives bases on a core question: Do the individual policy initiatives contribute to establish an effective EU policy towards Africa?

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 Prof Tariq Ramadan

University of Oxford, UK

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Islamic Studies. He is currently Senior Research Fellow St Antony’s College, Oxford, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan and at the Lokahi Foundation, London. He is a Visiting Professor (in charge of the chair: Identity and Citizenship) at Erasmus University, Netherlands (www.eur.nl/fsw/ramadan). Through his writings and lectures he has contributed substantially to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. He is active both at the academic and grassroots levels lecturing extensively throughout the world on social justice and dialogue between civilizations. Professor Tariq Ramadan is currently President of the European think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels.  His last book was The Messenger. The Meaning of the Life of Muhammad (Penguin, February 2007).  Website: www.tariqramadan.com

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