Threats and Awakening? How Geopolitics and Security Change the EU and its Law

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has shattered the notion that the EU could prosper unconcerned by issues of security and geopolitics, along with the illusion that it could remain untouched by the possibility of war. This accelerated the rise of security concerns as drivers of EU law and policy – what has been dubbed in the scholarship as Europe’s geopolitical awakening.

The 2024 ACELG conference offers a multi-disciplinary reflection upon the nature of the security threats that Europe faces and the meanings and merits of Europe’s ‘geopolitical awakening’. It wishes to better understand what the awakening entails, how it is reflected in various sub-fields of EU law and policy, what the costs of it are, and what must change in the EU if we deem the said awakening desirable. The conference also welcomes the questioning of the notions of threats and awakening as useful frames to understand the current state of EU affairs.

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