EU Foreign Policy: Where Law Meets Geopolitics — Luigi Lonardo

Recently, I came across an intriguing book title built around three keywords: “EU”, “Law” and “Geopolitics”. In 2022, the European Union’s foreign and security policy was subjected to a series of real-world tests at the intersection of these very themes. In this edition of The IR thinker, we explore what these developments reveal about the EU’s external action through the lenses of law and geopolitics: what can we learn about the Union’s foreign and security policies within these frameworks, and does the EU possess a sufficiently robust legal architecture to underpin its foreign policy in today’s shifting geopolitical landscape?Luigi LonardoDr Luigi Lonardo is a lecturer in EU law at University College Cork, Ireland, and visiting lecturer in European foreign, security and defence policy at Sciences Po in Paris, France.Publications:EU Common Foreign and Security Policy After Lisbon: Between Law and GeopoliticsRussia’s 2022 War Against Ukraine and the EU’s Foreign Policy Reaction: Context, Diplomacy, and LawContent00:00 - Introduction04:00 - Definition of geopolitics13:03 - Four concepts of EU foreign policy18:20 - Common security and foreign policy20:11 - Treaty of Lisbon22:52 - EU enlargement current stage28:54 - Geopolitics of Russian energy supplies31:04 - Geopolitics of water37:20 - EU enlargement geopolitics42:05 - Legal basis in the EU law43:35 - Sanctions and COREPER II46:00 - EU territory48:45 - EU constitution52:25 - Common geopolitical challenges56:30 - Recommendations for EU geopoliticsFollow & Further ResourcesSubstack: https://theirthinker.substack.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ir-thinker/X: https://x.com/irthinker_Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theirthinker/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theirthinker.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/irthinkerfb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.