The European Neighbourhood Chair conducts research into European Union and EU Member States’ foreign and security policy towards the (wider) EU neighbourhood – East and South – with a focus on the transposition of EU norms, values, rules and regulations as well as conflict management, and also works on political and economic transition and conflict in the EU’s 16 eastern and southern neighbours.

Past and current research projects have been concerned with the law and politics of association in the context of the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy and its Eastern Partnership respectively, its impact on neighbourhood partner countries, EU democracy and human rights promotion, EU conflict management, neighbours’ compliance with EU norms and rules, EU and EU Member States’ governance of migration, narratives of EU external relations, the resilience turn in EU foreign policy, the politics of recognition in the EU’s neighbourhood, the politics of disinformation in Eastern Europe, political reform and regime change in Eastern Europe and the Southern Mediterranean.

Prof. Adam Łazowski

• EU enlargement policy
• Withdrawal from the European Union
• Internal Market of the European Union
• EU Criminal Law
• Court of Justice of the European Union

Dr Andriy TYUSHKA

• EU’s (Eastern) neighbourhood, foreign and security policy, including the EU association agreements and structural power in the neighbourhood
• EU-Ukraine relations (from association to EU accession)
• (Eastern) European security (Ukraine, EU/NATO Eastern Flank, Russia)
• Geopolitics and geostrategy
• Strategic narratives and partnerships in international relations
• The EU’s Shifting Engagement in War-Torn Ukraine throughout 2014–2024

Dr Tamar GAMKRELIDZE

• Political dynamics, discursive politics, and national projects in Georgia
• EU policies and strategies toward Eastern Neighbourhood countries
• EU led discursive politics, projections, frame alignment, and framing strategies in the Eastern Neighbourhood
• EU actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood: power politics and opportunity structures

Prof. Tobias SCHUMACHER

• (European) Foreign Policy Analysis
• EU External Action and EU Norms Diffusion
• The European Neighbourhood Policy
• EU-Middle East Relations
• Eastern European Politics
• Middle East and North African Politics
• Theories of International Relations

Prof. Kataryna WOLCZUK

• Domestic politics, political regimes and reforms in Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova
• EU’s policy towards the eastern neighbourhood countries
• Russia’s policy towards the eastern neighbourhood countries
• Design and implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy
• National and ethnic identities, nation-building and nationalism

Dr Nurlal Aliyev

• International security
• Russia's foreign and Security policy
• Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of the Arctic
• Geopolitics of Eurasia