From Integrated European Space to Competing Regionalisms? The EU and Russia Before and After the Ukraine Crisis

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the Center for European Studies and CREECA are teaming up for a special Monday talk early next week. Please join us!

Joan DeBardeleben, Carleton University

When: Monday, October 19, 2015, Noon - 1:00 PM

Where: 336 Ingraham Hall

Sponsors: The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the Center for European Studies, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)

About the Lecture: Prior to the Ukraine crisis, the EU and Russia described their relationship as a mutually defined ‘strategic partnership’, with the long term goal of building a common economic space in broader Europe. The speaker puts forth the thesis that a paradigm shift is under way, which began sometime before but was crystallized by the Ukraine crisis. Before the paradigm shift, the relationship revolved around contested visions of the integrated European space, but has now shifted to a paradigm of competing regionalisms. The talk will consider reasons for the shift, what directions the new paradigm might take, and how the EU might respond.

About the Speaker: Joan DeBardeleben is Chancellor’s Professor in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is Director of Carleton’s EU Centre of Excellence and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Relations. DeBardeleben’s recent research focuses on relations between the EU and Russia, as well as elections and regional politics in Russia. DeBardeleben received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.