About us

Stephan KEUKELEIRE is the academic coordinator of this online resource guide "Exploring EU Foreign Policy". He is a Jean Monnet Professor in European Foreign Policy at the University of Leuven (Institute for International and European Policy) where he is the Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on "The European Union, Foreign Policy and Global Governance", Academic Director of the "Master of European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives" and Co-Director of the "Master of European Politics and Policies". Stephan Keukeleire is also a board member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).
Stephan Keukeleire used to be a part-time member of the Cabinet of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004-05) and is a former assistant to a Member of the European Parliament (1985-94). His research focuses on various dimensions of (European) foreign policy: the conceptualizing and analysis of (European) foreign policy in a 21st century context; structural foreign policy; the EU’s inter-pillar foreign policy; CFSP; the role of networks and contact groups in EU foreign policy.
He has written books and articles on European foreign policy, European security, European institutions and decision-making. His last publication, together with Jennifer MacNaughtan, is "The Foreign Policy of the European Union" (Palgrave, 'The European Union Series', 2008). (Bibliography)

Arnout JUSTAERT (MA in political sciences, K.U.L. and MA in European studies, U.C.L) was a junior researcher and programme co-ordinator of the Master in de vergelijkende en internationale politiek at the Institute for International and European Policy, K.U.Leuven. His research includes the external relations and foreign policy of the EU and European immigration and asylum policy (and related aspects such as the protection of the Union’s external borders, the free movement of persons in the EU, etc...).
In his PhD research, Arnout Justaert will focus on ‘policy networks’, ‘network governance’ and informal relations in EU foreign policy towards the African Great Lakes Region, and more in particular the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Recent publications:

• Keukeleire, S., & Justaert, A. (2008, 24-26 April) Policy Networks and the Analysis of EU Foreign Policy. Paper presented at the GARNET Conference 'The European Union in International Affairs', Brussels.

• Justaert, A., & Nasra, S. (2008, 17 June) EU Foreign Policy: Exploring the integrative potential of the Lisbon Treaty. Paper presented at the Postgraduate Workshop "The European Union after the Reform Treaty: a new era?", University of London.

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Kolja RAUBE has studied political science and public Law at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany),
the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and University of Hamburg
(Germany). He was Visiting Student at the European University Institute (Italy, 2005) and recieved his PhD at the University of Hamburg (Germany, 2006). Before joining the Centre for European Studies to become the Programme Coordinator of the Master of European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives, he was Research Assistant at the University of Hamburg (2006-2008) and was affiliated with ARENA's EuroTrans Project. Kolja's main fields of interests are the CFSP (including the ESDP) and the constitutional politics of the EU. He has written his doctoral thesis on the constitutional foreign policy of the EU (published at Nomos in 2007).

Roos VAN DE CRUYS (MA in political sciences, K.U.L. and MA in European studies, FUSL) worked at the Institute for International and European Policy, University of Leuven, during the academic year 2007-08 and was responsible for the implementation of the Jean Monnet Activities, including the design of the website project 'Exploring Europe' and updating the online content of the website 'Exploring EU foreign policy'.

Currently, she works at the  Flemish Foreign Affairs Council of the Flemish government.

Robin THIERS (MA in political sciences, K.U.L) worked at the Institute for International and European Policy, University of Leuven, during the academic year 2008-09 and was responsible for the implementation of the Jean Monnet Activities, including updating the online content of the website 'Exploring EU foreign policy'.

Currently, he works for the Departement of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Flemish Community in preparation of the Belgian EU-Presidency in 2010.