On the 20th of May, at 10 am (Lisbon time), a seminar will be held in Room 4.3 of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra within the scope of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence.
Stefano Guzzini, Danish Institute for International Studies, Uppsala University | IRI PUC-Rio, is the guest speaker of this “Jean Monnet Lecture” where he will address the theme “The return of geopolitics in Europe”.
An initiative organized in collaboration with the Doctorate in International Relations, International Politics and Conflict Resolution.
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Stefano Guzzini
My research focus lies within the field of International Relations, relying on social and political theory, political science, sociology and political economy. The focus of my publications has been with realism and constructivism in international theory, foreign policy analysis (mainly applied in Europe), as well as with the conceptual analysis and theories of power. More recently, I have worked on interpretivist methodologies (process tracing and notions of causality) and critical geopolitics.
The Jean Monnet Center of Excellence is one of the Jean Monnet Programs created by the European Commission and designed to promote the development of higher education and high-level scientific research in the field of European integration anywhere in the world. Among the Jean Monnet Programs it is the most demanding and therefore the most difficult to obtain. It is awarded through a worldwide public tender. It is awarded to a University as a whole, although the application may be presented by one or more Faculties or by one or more holders of a Jean Monnet Chair. As a result of this level of demand, the Center of Excellence is only awarded to Universities of proven merit in terms of European integration and that in their respective application demonstrate that they have the capacity and conditions, namely in terms of human and scientific resources, to deserve this distinction. In its attribution, the multidisciplinary nature of the Center is privileged. The University of Coimbra's Center of Excellence was granted through a candidacy under the general theme PRONE - Peace Relations, Ontologies and Narratives in Europe: EU and its Eastern Neighbors, presented by its Faculty of Economics and having as its Academic Coordinator Professor Maria Raquel Freire, Professor at FEUC and Head of a Jean Monnet Chair. The Center of Excellence will also involve Professors from the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra.