Carsten GERARDS and Simon SCHUNZ from the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies (IRD) Department are the co-authors – together with the former College of Europe Visiting Professor Chad DAMRO (University of Edinburgh) – of an article on “Opportunity, Presence and Entrepreneurship: Why the EU Acts Externally on Higher Education” that has recently been published in the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). The article identifies and explains a pattern in the decisive steps towards the EU’s external engagement in the realm of higher education. A blog post summarising the article’s main findings can be found here.