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SUMMARY:Graduate Reading Group Series: ‘Challenges to European Unity’ 
 - Ariadna Ripoll Servent\, the University of Bamberg
DTSTART:20170202T110000Z
DTEND:20170202T123000Z
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DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that Prof Ariadna Ripoll Servent 
 (University of Bamberg) will lead the next session of the European Studies
  Reading Group on ‘Strong institutions\, weak policy change: The role of
  EU institutions in the Area of Freedom\, Security and Justice’.\n\nIn p
 articular\, we would like to invite all interested graduate students to jo
 in us for this session. Please also refer to the outline of the reading gr
 oup series and the readings for this session (see below). For more informa
 tion\, please visit the website of the "European Centre @POLIS":http://www
 .europe.polis.cam.ac.uk/ or contact "Sebastian Steingass":mailto:sds63@cam
 .ac.uk.\n\nThe next reading group takes place on Wednesday\, 15 February 2
 017\, 11.00-12.30 and is led by Prof Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
 . More information to follow.\n\n*About Ariadna Ripoll Servent*\n\nAriadna
  Ripoll Servent joint the University of Bamberg\, Germany\, in 2013. She i
 s Junior Professor of Political Science (European Integration). Her resear
 ch focuses on European integration\, EU institutions and EU internal secur
 ity policies. She holds a degree from Sciences Po Paris and the College of
  Europe in Bruges and she obtained a PhD in Contemporary European Studies 
 from the University of Sussex. She has previously worked at the Institute 
 for European Integration Research in Vienna and the College of Europe. Her
  most recent book is entitled _Institutional and Policy Change in the Euro
 pean Parliament - Deciding on Freedom\, Security and Justice_ (Palgrave Ma
 cmillan\, 2015). For a CV and a full list of publications\, please see "he
 re":https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/060704b-temp/CV_october_2016.pdf.
 \n\n*Outline of the reading group series*\n\nIn recent years\, scholarship
  surrounding European integration and the European Union (EU) has been lit
 tered with crises narratives: from the economic and monetary\, hybrid secu
 rity threats and terrorism\, refugees and Schengen to populism\, and ultim
 ately Brexit. While tensions and conflicts within the EU and around its bo
 rders may not have been created by the EU\, the struggle to find common po
 licy responses has challenged integration. These challenges have created s
 paces for transnational politics which are often ignored or downplayed des
 pite their potential. Transnational politics are an instance of European i
 ntegration\, even if\, as in the case of populist alliances across Europe\
 , they go against the traditional vision of ‘ever-closer union’.\n\nIn
  many ways\, Germany’s role is central to these responses. This is not o
 nly because it has been criticised for both leadership and hesitancy\, as 
 in\, for example\, the 2015 policy on migration. The response that this cr
 eated all over Europe highlights the role of German actors\, from governme
 nt all the way to civil society. This short series of reading groups will 
 deal with specific instances of challenges to integration that have create
 d space for transnational politics. It focuses on\, though discussions are
  not confined to\, transnational responses to migration and challenges to 
 the EU’s common border management\, the surge of populism on the right a
 nd left\, and security institutions against the background of hybrid threa
 ts and terrorism.\n\nThe reading groups are aimed at graduate students\, m
 ainly in the field of politics\, international studies and migration. Toge
 ther with an invited scholar from Germany\, students will discuss recent a
 cademic publications and ongoing research on the outlined topics. The read
 ing group is generously funded by the "DAAD Cambridge Research Hub":www.ca
 m.ac.uk/daad/.\n\n*Readings for this session*\n\nRipoll Servent\, A. (2013
 ) ‘Holding the European Parliament responsible: policy shift in the Data
  Retention Directive from consultation to codecision’\, _Journal of Euro
 pean Public Policy_\, Vol. 20\, No. 7\, pp. 972-87.\n\nRipoll Servent\, A.
  and MacKenzie\, A. (2016) ‘Eroding Germany’s Commitment to Data Prote
 ction: Policy Entrepreneurs and Coalition Politics in EU Passenger Name Re
 cords’\, _German Politics_\, DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2016.1250889 \n\nTrau
 ner\, F. and Ripoll Servent\, A. (2016) ‘The Communitarization of the Ar
 ea of Freedom\, Security and Justice: Why Institutional Change does not Tr
 anslate into Policy Change’\, _Journal of Common Market Studies_\, Vol. 
 54\, No. 6\, pp. 1417-32.
LOCATION:Room 138\, The Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd\, Cambridge\, 
 CB3 9DT
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