The EU’s Political and Security Committee: Still in the shadows but no longer governing?

LSE EUROPP Blogpost in European Politics and Policy Series to synthesize the results of the joint research with Nick Wright about the changing interaction of EU member states in EU foreign and security policy

The Future of Diplomacy in Europe – HJD podcast

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Podcast Episode 9: Heidi Maurer and Sophie Vériter on the Future of Diplomacy in Europe In this episdoe, Sophie (Leiden University) and I talked about our recent contributions to the special issue “Diplomacy and COVID-19” in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy. We explain why you should read our articles, we synthesize

The European External Action Service – chapter now available

Book chapter – now available: in Riddervold, Marianne, Jarle Trondal, and Akasemi Newsome, eds. 2021: The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 357-372

UACES plenary The Digitization of Academic Teaching

On 27 November 2020 I joined Alexandra Mihai and Simon Usherwood for a roundtable at the UACES Virtual Doctoral Training Academy – session 2: Digitalization of Academic Teaching. The recording is now online

Encompass opinion: The EU’s Political and Security Committee: still in the shadows but no longer governing?

In this Encompass opinion piece Nick Wright and I synthesize our research findings about the impact about the institutional Lisbon Treaty changes on the involvment of member states in European foreign policy-making. see https://encompass-europe.com/comment/the-eus-political-and-security-committee-still-in-the-shadows-but-no-longer-governing Reflecting on our reserach which has just been published: Maurer H., & Wright, N. (2020). Still governing in the shadows? Member

new article: EU member states, foreign policy-making and the role of the PSC (with Nick Wright)

now online (in pre-print format): https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13134

new article: New Paradigm for EU Diplomacy? EU Council Negotiations in a Time of Physical Restrictions

Now online in OPEN ACCESS: Maurer, H., & Wright, N. (2020). A New Paradigm for EU Diplomacy? EU Council Negotiations in a Time of Physical Restrictions. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 15(4), 556-568. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191X-BJA10039 Summary Can diplomacy work without physical presence? International relations scholars consider the European Union (EU) the most institutionalised case of

A Loop blogpost: How to teach comfortably in an online world: the core principles of learning

A Loop Blogpost (European Consortium For Political Research): https://theloop.ecpr.eu/how-to-teach-comfortably-in-an-online-world-the-core-principles-of-learning/

Reflecting on Public Diplomacy & Soft Power

On 25 June 2020, Prof Natalia Chaban from the University of Canterbury (NZ) invited me to share my thoughts for her course on public diplomacy. In 20 minutes I reflect on the questions by Prof Chaban and talk about the relevance of researching diplomacy, how the concept of “soft power” relates to public diplomacy, and

NEXTEUK conference: the impact of Brexit and Covid-19 on teaching

In my short introduction to this roudtable about the impact of Brexit and Covid-19 on teaching I share the following observations: Like any change, Brexit and Covid-19 can be perceived as threat and disruptive or as enriching opportunity Both, Brexit and Covid-19, pull politics to the surface in all kinds of areas. For teaching in