PhD Candidates in European Union Foreign Policy

The international role of the EU is now contested and takes place in an international order that has turned geopolitical. This contradicts major assumptions in scholarship. EUFOG addresses new theorization and research by looking at the politics, policies and partners (3Ps) of EU foreign policy, and by integrating outside-in and inside-out perspectives. The two PhD candidates based at Leiden University will conduct research on different aspects of the EU’s international role within the framework of the EUFOG project. PhD candidate 1 will focus on the topic: ‘The EU over 27. Enlargement in an era of great power competition’ and PhD candidate 2 will focus on the topic: ‘Atlanticists, Europeanists and strategic autonomy. Preferences over and by allies.’.