Purpose
The JMCoE will promote excellence in research in EU studies by fostering collaborative dynamics among the Centre’s twelve key staff and beyond. The Centre will help to create synergies in research by bringing together researchers with different regional foci as well as various disciplinary backgrounds, such as Political Science, Sociology, Law, and Economics. Members of the key staff will co-author and co-edit several academic publications during the duration of the JMCoE. In addition, the JMCoE aims at building an interdisciplinary network of researchers working on questions of differentiated European integration with a focus on the Nordic countries.
Project description
We focus our research, teaching, and outreach activities on Europe’s North and East – two regions which encompass the entire spectrum of differentiated integration arrangements. Both regions are also uniquely exposed to new geopolitical challenges as they share a border with a resurgent Russia while the American commitment to NATO is thrown into doubt. These laboratories of differentiation thus offer important lessons on how a Post-Brexit Europe may respond to both challenges to its internal cohesiveness and new external threats.
The centre also conducts extensive dissemination activities, including podcasts, EU videos for schools, film evenings, participation in events such as Arendalsuka and Democracy Week.
