Dear all, We are cordially inviting submissions for the workshop “The Geopolitics and European integration” to be held at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2024, Leuphana University Lüneburg (25 – 28 March 2024). The geopolitical context in which European integration unfolds is shifting, and with it the dynamics of EU politics and institutional development. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, a (temporarily?) re-invigorated transatlantic alliance, and the rise of China are all affecting the way in which the EU develops. To appropriately grasp the effects of geopolitics and to account for the variation in institutional development, mass public perception and member-state relations across policy fields, theoretical and empirical accounts of European integration need to more explicitly integrate such external drivers. We invite papers on topics and themes including - The development and better understanding of the geopolitics of European integration - The external-internal nexus of EU policymaking between external factors and internal European dynamics - EU foreign, trade and enlargement policy - EU security and defence policy - EU competition and industrial policy - EU internal market policy - EU energy, environment, and climate policy - Different ontologies, including quantitative and qualitative methodologies … and addressing questions such as - How do outside threats and dependencies affect the path of European integration? - How does the shifting geopolitical environment influence EU politics? - How can we theorise the influence of external drivers on the contemporary dynamics of European integration? - How can we empirically assess the influence of external drivers on contemporary EU institution-building? Interested to join? Reach out to the workshop convenors: Lucas Schramm (lucas.schramm@gsi.uni-muenchen.de) and Christian Freudlsperger (christian.freudlsperger@eup.gess.ethz.ch). Find out more and submit your proposal until 23 November 2023 at: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/14418