Europe Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War: The New Europe, New Europes?

Organised by the Graduate Institute and the Pierre du Bois Foundation

The organisers of this conference wish to provide a framework for reflection on developments and realignments in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Eastern enlargement of the European Union.

The conference proposes to explore changes and continuities by analyzing the transformations in Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain and by contextualizing EU Eastern enlargement within the long-term development of European integration up to the present. The conference will also examine the interaction between these transformations, Eastern enlargement and other changes that have occurred in international politics since the early 1990s.

PROGRAMME

Thursday 14 October 


9.00 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome addresses 



I Enlargement and the Internal Functioning of the European Union


9.30 – 9.45 Dirk Leuffen, ETH Zürich:
The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on the Internal Functioning of the EU: Why So Much Stability?
9.45 – 10.00 Wolfram Kaiser, University of Portsmouth:
Political Parties in the European Polity: Eastern Enlargement in Historical Perspective.
10.00 – 10.15 Antonio Varsori, University of Padua:
Italy and the German Reunification.
10.15 – 10.45 Discussion

10.45 – 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 – 11.35 Artur Gruszczak, Jagiellonian University:
In Search of Order – EU Security Governance as a New Divide.
11.35 – 11.50 Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies:
The Politics of Commemoration at EU Level. Can Europeans ‘Remember’ Together?
11.50 – 12.05 Ilaria Poggiolini, University of Pavia:
Reflections on Enlargement and Euroscepticism in Europe: From “Second Europe” to Post-Cold War Europe.
12.05 – 12.35 Discussion

12.35 – 14.15 Lunch break

II Enlargement, European Defence and External Relations



14.15 – 14.30 Gérard Bossuat, University of Cergy-Pontoise:
Les voies obscures de l'influence de l'Union européenne dans le monde.
14.30 – 14.45 Basil Germond, University of Central Lancashire:
The European Union’s Geopolitical Discourse: Rhetoric and Practice.
14.45 – 15.00 Brigitte Leucht, University of Oxford:
Actorness and Enlargement in Historical Perspective.
15.00 – 15.30 Discussion

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 16.15 Katrin Rücker, University of Geneva:
Transatlantic Relations in a Historical Perspective: The GATT/WTO and the Successive Enlargements of the European Communities.
16.15 – 16.30 Gilles Grin, Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe:
La défense commune dans une Union européenne élargie : illusion ou réalité naissante ? 16.30 – 16.45 Marek Neuman, University of Groningen:
The Czech Republic's EU Accession: A Shift-Producing Variable in the EU's Foreign Policy towards Russia?
16.45 – 17.15 Discussion



Friday 15 October 


III European Political Space Beyond the European Union

9.00 – 9.15 Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome III:
Europe and the Yugoslav Crisis.
9.15 – 9.30 Ruxandra Stoicescu, Independent Researcher, working with Swiss Network for International Studies and Radio Suisse:
South East Europe in EU Foreign Policy Articulations.
9.30 – 9.45 Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews:
The Losers of Europe after 1990: What Hope is there for Countries like Moldova – Reflections from Theory and Practice. 9.45 – 10.00 Vladislav Zubok, Temple University:
Russia and the Idea of Europe: Twenty Years after the Soviet Collapse.
10.00 – 10.40 Discussion

10.40 – 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 – 11.25 Özcan Yilmaz, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies:
Les effets du processus d’adhésion à l’UE sur les institutions, la politique et la société turques.
11.25 – 11.40 Paul Kubicek, Oakland University:
The Meaning and Limits of a United Europe: The Problematic Case of Turkey.
11.40 – 12.00 Discussion

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch break

IV Visions of Europe: The New Europe in the Eyes of the Europeans

13.30 – 13.45 Michel Fulop, Corvinus University:
De la périphérie à la périphérie: des marges de l'empire soviétique aux marges de l'Occident, 1989-2009.
13.45 – 14.00 Mare Van den Eeden, Central European University:
Visions of Europe from a Central European Perspective, 1980s to Present.
14.00 – 14.15 Emilia Robin Hivert, University Paris IV:
L'attitude des communistes européens à l'égard de l'Europe élargie.
14.15 – 14.45 Discussion

14.45 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 15.30 Axel Marion, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies:
De la frontière fixe aux limites indéfinies: les espaces européens en question après la chute du bloc de l'Est.
15.30 – 15.45 Sophie Huber, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies:
1989: l'Europe communautaire et ses Autres à l'Est et au Sud.
15.45 – 16.00 Katrin Milzow, Pierre du Bois Foundation:
Compromise and Solidarity within the European Union of 27.
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Concluding discussion
17.00 – 18.00 Cocktail

No registration required;
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132 rue de Lausanne, Geneva