The Department of Political Science is pleased to welcome three visiting scholars hosted by the Centre for European Studies (CES).
Annegret Bendiek is deputy head of the research division “EU/Europe” at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Since 2005, she has been researching fundamental issues of European foreign and security policy. She has taught in the postgraduate program “Master of European Studies” at Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin, served in the planning staff of the German Federal Foreign Office, was a Robert Bosch Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy “The Future of the Liberal Order” and a Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC. While at Carleton, she teaches EURR 5109/INAF 5805, The European Union in International Affairs, and will work on a monograph on “Paradigm Shift in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: From Transformation to Resilience”.
Jürgen Neyer is Professor of European and International Politics at the European University Viadrina and is the founding director of the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) (https://www.europeannewschool.eu). He has researched and taught at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of Bremen, the University of California at Berkeley, the European University Institute Florence, the Free University Berlin and the University of Haifa. Neyer has widely published on European governance, deliberative democracy and digital sovereignty. His recent projects focus on linkages between technological innovation and international conflicts and the development of an AI-based search engine for arguments.
Luca Ratti is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Rome 3 and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the American University of Rome. His research and teaching interests lie U.S.-European relations, NATO’s evolution, European security and defense policies, and international relations theory. While at Carleton, he will research the progress of the CSDP during the French Presidency of the European Council in the first half of 2022 as well as NATO-Russia relations in the context of the crisis in Ukraine. He is teaching PSCI 4608/5608/EURR 4104/5104, European Integration and European Security.