EURINT 2020 | EU and its neighbourhood: enhancing EU actorness in the eastern borderlands will, first, seek to bring additional insights into the way the EU policies are being framed and adapted in order to hamper the imbalances at the level of the borderlands between the EU and non-EU states in Eastern Europe. Second, it will assess the implication of the neighbourhood instruments in the borderland regions and try to provide answers about level of attractiveness the EU’s specific policies and instruments. Since the EU’s essential values such as good governance, democracy, economic prosperity and security have been constantly under pressure in the past years in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU, it is interesting to gauge whether the EU can be still regarded as a source of political and economic support for the countries in the region. Last but not least, the conference will offer the possibility to discuss ways of improving the effectiveness of the neighbourhood instruments in relation to its Eastern Partnership countries and debate whether the current design of these instruments is still suitable for a significantly altered region marked by the current geopolitical tensions between the Euro-Atlantic community and Russia.

EURINT 2020 will have a strong academic interdisciplinary character (political, economic, social, etc.) when assessing the EU’s policies in the region (such as, the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership) and, more specifically, the impact of the neighbourhood instruments ( the European Neighbouring Instrument, Cross-Border-Cooperation, Euroregions, bilateral state partnerships, etc.).

During the two-day conference, an exciting academic programme, featuring renowned international experts and keynote lectures, will be offered to our participants: PhD candidates, post-doc fellows, researchers, civil society activists, NGO representatives, consultants, policy advocates and many more.

We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers which could fit the following general and more specific topics:

• Theoretical conceptualization and factors underpinning the EU’s role in the Eastern Neighbourhood Current challenges for the EU’s eastern borderlands. EU/non-EU cooperation in the borderland spaces
• Regionalization initiatives in the neighbouring countries with direct impact on borderlands
• Resilient EU: studies from the Eastern neighbourhood
• Romania frontline state of the EU: implications for the neighbourhood
• Cross border cooperation and peripheral areas in Eastern Europe
• Euroregions. Impact over the developments of the Eastern Europe borderlands
• European regional growth and sustainable development
• EU governance and public administration
• New approaches/interpretations to the EU law and governance in the member states

The deadline for online registration and submission of extended abstracts is 8 March 2020.

The presented papers will be published either in CES Working Papers (indexed in numerous international databases) or in the Conference Proceedings (indexed in Web of Science).

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