The Center’s research strength is in the EU’s external relations. There are three overlapping areas of particular focus:
Economic governance
- European Union Trade Policy
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2014-17)
- European trade policy in interesting times (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2017-20)
- EU Compliance with International Trade Law (Economic and Social Research Council)
- The European Union in Global Technology Governance (Jean Monnet Chair 2012-15 and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2020-23)
- Protecting Privacy: Transatlantic Perspectives and Challenges (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2014-17)
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2014-17)
- In Search of a Transatlantic Agora: The EU-US Values Debate and the Quest for Global Leadership
- Learning to be Strategic? Operationalizing the EU’s ‘Strategic Partnership’ Concept with the United States of America (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2017-20)
The EU as a regional and global actor
- Reporting at the Southern Borders: Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the U.S. and the EU
- Triangular Diplomacy: Strategic Implications of a Resurgent Russia for the European Union and the United States (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2014-17 and subsequently)
- European Integration as a Peace Project (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2014-17)
- US and EU Responses to the Rise of China
- Climate Change in the Arctic: EU and North American Media About Melting Ice (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 2017-20)
The Center also has active programs around two other contemporary issues: