Occasion announcement
The Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE)’s constructing block on EU values in Worldwide Commerce is organizing the third version of its annual casual workshop on EU commerce and funding coverage, to happen on Friday, 6 December 2024. Constructing on earlier editions on the trade-security nexus (2022) and the unilateral flip in EU commerce and funding coverage (2023), we’re inviting students to submit abstracts on points related to the function of ‘financial safety’ in EU commerce and funding coverage.
Financial safety has taken centre stage within the European Fee’s commerce technique. In July 2023, the Fee adopted an ‘financial safety technique’, and in January 2024 it launched its ‘financial safety bundle’ by which it proposed, amongst different issues, important reforms to the Overseas Direct Funding Regulation. The blurring of commerce and safety has been seen in lots of corners of EU commerce coverage, starting from the FDI Screening Regulation, over the Anti-Coercion Instrument to the EU’s export management guidelines on dual-use objects and their utility to EU-based analysis organisations. These are additionally intertwined with the EU’s in depth use of financial sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Financial safety might be examined from varied angles and thru totally different disciplinary lenses. We invite students within the fields of legislation, political science, economics, worldwide relations, historical past, and so on. to submit abstracts (max. 500 phrases) by Friday, 27 September 2024 to Thomas Verellen [email protected].
We significantly welcome abstracts that query the idea of financial safety and the function it performs in discourses throughout the EU commerce legislation/coverage epistemic communities, or that have interaction with the repercussions of the EU’s financial safety agenda on non-trade associated constitutional values such because the rule of legislation, elementary rights and democracy. Interrogations on the legality of EU commerce devices and their utility below worldwide (financial) legislation ideas, or historic or comparative analyses that intention to uncover the drivers and core options of financial safety narratives throughout time and place are additionally very a lot welcomed.
We invite contributions by researchers in any respect profession phases. To debate and debate work in progress, the workshop shall be held in a closed format. Contributors shall be anticipated to submit a paper by Monday, 25 November 2024 (max. 10 000 phrases) and can obtain suggestions on their work from specialists within the area based mostly in Utrecht and elsewhere. Chosen contributors could have the chance to submit their closing papers for publication in a particular difficulty of the Utrecht Regulation Assessment.
We might be able to supply restricted monetary help for journey and lodging. Please point out in your submission whether or not you want to profit from this.
