Katharina L. Meissner

Assistant Professor (Universitätsassistentin, Post-doc)

[email protected] Institute for European Integration Research * University of Vienna Apostelgasse 23 * 1030 Vienna, Austria

Education

2016 Ph.D., Political and Social Sciences European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Competing for Economic Power – South America, Southeast Asia, and Commercial Realism in European Union Foreign Policy Examination committee: Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Adrienne Héritier (Supervisor), Ulrich Krotz, Alberta Sbragia

2014 Visiting Researcher Institute for European Studies, Brussels, Belgium

2013 Master of Research, Political and Social Sciences European University Institute, Florence, Italy

2012 Diplom (excellent; 1,2) (Master equivalent), Political Science, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany

From Leader to Rambo: A Qualitative Analysis of Brazil’s Role in MERCOSUR Examination committee: Thomas Gehring (Supervisor), Thomas Rixen

2011 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (with distinction; A) (Master equivalent), Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand

The Dispute Settlement Effectiveness in Regional Organizations among Developing Countries: A Qualitative Analysis of MERCOSUR Examination committee: Karen Brounéus, Kevin Clements (Supervisor)

Awards and Grants

2017 Finalist ‘Deutscher Studienpreis’ 2017 of the Körber Foundation

2015-2016 Ph.D. Completion Grant, European University Institute

2015-2016 Grant for research expenses, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD

2012-2015 Doctoral Grant, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD

2013-2015 Several Travel Grants, European University Institute

2014 European Research and Mobility Grant for European Studies, Charles V European Award José Manuel Durão Barroso

2010-2012 Grant for undergraduate studies, German National Academic Foundation

Teaching Experience

Since 2017 Head of eight Master thesis examination committees, University of Vienna, Austria

Since 2016 BA and MA courses, University of Vienna, Austria Politics and policies in EU external relations x2 (evaluation: 2.3) The EU and world regions x2 (evaluation: 1.8, 1.9) Politics and governance of the EU: Which role for the European Parliament? x2 (evaluation: 2.4, 2.0) EU and Europeanization: Europeanization in theory and practice (together with Henning Deters and Federica Zardo) (evaluation: 2.2)

2016 Teaching Competence Certificate on ‘Teaching Portfolio’

2015-2016 BA course Instructor, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Institutions and Interests in EU Foreign Trade Policy (evaluation: 1.6) Theory and Empirics of Regional Integration: Europe, the Americas, and Asia in Comparison (evaluation: 1.6)

2015 Teaching Training Certificate, European University Institute, Italy

2011-2012 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Thomas Rixen and Prof. Thomas Gehring, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany

2011 Teaching Assistant to Dr. Nicholas Khoo University of Otago, New Zealand

Research and Policy related Experience

2018 Collaborator in the Horizon2020 research project RESPECT Principal investigator: Prof. Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute, Italy

2013-2016 Research Assistant to Prof. Ulrich Krotz, European University Institute, Italy

2015 Research Assistant to Dr. Salvatore Sberna on ANTICORRP, European University Institute, Italy

2015 Research Assistant to Prof. Adrienne Héritier, European University Institute, Italy

2009-2012 Research Assistant to Prof. Thomas Gehring, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany

2008-2010 Research Assistant at the european forum for migration studies, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany

2010 Internship in the International Organization for Migration Nuremberg, Germany

2009 Internship in the Office of Member of Parliament Ekin Deligoez, Berlin, Germany

Publications

Book

Forthcoming Commercial Realism and EU Trade Policy: Competing for Economic Power in Asia and the Americas. Routledge (Routledge/ UACES Contemporary European Studies)

International, peer-reviewed journal articles

Forthcoming Putting Power into Practice: Administrative and Political Capacity Building in the European Parliament’s Committee for International Trade. In: Public Administration (accepted for publication) (with Evelyn Coremans)

Forthcoming Leveraging Interregionalism: EU Strategic Interests in Asia, Latin America and the Gulf region. In: International Politics, doi: 10.1057/ s41311-017-0131-z

2018 Resorting to bilateralism: The EU, MERCO SUR, and the Strategic Partnership with Brazil. In: Journal of European Integration, 40 (1): 51-66

2017 Human Rights Conditionality in European Union Trade Negotiations: the case of the EU- Singapore FTA. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 55 (4): 832-849 (with Lachlan McKenzie)

2016 Democratizing EU External Relations: The European Parliament’s Informal Role in the SWIFT, ACTA, and TTIP Negotiations. In: European Foreign Affairs Review, 21 (2): 269-288

2016 A Case of Failed Interregionalism? Analyzing the EU ASEAN free trade agreement negotiations. In: Asia Europe Journal, 14 (3): 319-336

2016 Interregionalism Re-loaded: assessing the EU-MERCO SUR Negotiations. In: St Antony’s International Review, 11 (2): 95-121

2015 Has interregionalism failed? Examining the EU ASEAN free trade negotiations. In: Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, Special Issue 110-111: 17-42

2014 Regional Powers as Leaders or Rambos? The Ambivalent Behavior of Brazil and South Africa in Regional Economic Integration. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 52 (4): 879- 895 (with Sebastian Krapohl and Johannes Muntschick)

Book chapters

Forthcoming Regional security in the 21st century’s South America: economic, energy and political issues in MERCOSUR and UNASUR. In: Artur Gruszczak and Pawel Frankowski (eds): Cross-disciplinary perspectives on regional and global security. Palgrave Macmillan

Forthcoming The EU and Brazil Going Strategic: A Q ualitative Analysis of the EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership against the Background of the EU-MERCOSUR Negotiations. Cuadernos de Yuste, Publishing House Peter Lang

2017 MERCOSUR. In: Sebastian Krapohl (ed.): Regional Integration in the Global South: External Influence on Economic Cooperation in ASEAN, MERCO SUR and SADC. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 147-179

Working and Policy Papers

2016 Das Innen- und Außenleben des MERCO SUR. Wie sich die internen Asymmetrien auf die Außenhandelspolitik des Blocks auswirken. In: connosco (ed.) Lateinamerika und der Freihandel. Interessen. Diskurse. Perspektiven. Cologne, connosco

2015 The time has come to look at Brazil: The EU’s shift from interregional negotiations with MERCOSUR to a bilateral Strategic Partnership with Brazil, RSCAS Working Paper 2015/ 37, 2015, Florence

2015 The European Parliament as a driving force of Constitutionalisation, Study for the Directorate General Internal Policies, Directorate C of the European Parliament (with Adrienne Héritier, Catherine Moury, Magnus G. Schoeller, Isabel Mota)

2014 Unlocking the Potential of Interregionalism: Mutual Perceptions and Interests in EU- ASEAN Relations, IFAIR Impact Group “EU- ASEAN Perspectives” Policy Paper, Berlin (with Imke Pente, Nelly Stratieva, Boonwara Sumano)

Other publications

2014 The EU and the Asian Tiger: Assessing the EU Singapore FTA, Diplomatic Magazine

2014 A practical way forward for EU-ASEAN relations, Euractive (with Imke Pente, Nelly Stratieva, Boonwara Sumano)

2012 Beiträge zur Tagung “Entgrenzte Räume? Konstruktion und Relevanz von Grenzen im Wandel“ an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg vom 14. bis 15. Januar 2011. Bamberg, Bamberg University Press (edited together with Andreas Christ, Madlen Reimer, Agatha Rudnik, Lukas Werther, Jana Wolf)

Work in progress

Paper: Shaping global value chains with Singapore and Vietnam? Business organizations in the negotiation of EU-ASEAN trade agreements, part of special issue proposal submitted to the British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Paper: Exploring interaction between national parliaments and the European Parliament in EU external affairs (with Guri Rosén), part of book proposal with Hart Publishing

Paper: The European Parliament in investiture (with Catherine Moury and Magnus G. Schoeller)

Paper: The EU’s turn to bilateralism in its external trade policy

Paper: Brexit under scrutiny? National parliaments of Austria and Germany in the Brexit negotiations

Paper: One size fits all: EU Strategic Partnerships (with Camille Brugier)

Given Talks

Invited Talks

2017 Körber Stiftung, Deutscher Studienpreis 2017, Berlin, Germany Die Europäische Union als letzte Bastion wirtschaftlicher Freiheit? Wie Handelsliberalisierung in einem Zeitalter wiederkehrenden Nationalismus gelingen kann

2017 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Initiativseminar, Vienna, Austria

Ausblick auf die nächsten 20 Jahre der EU

2015 Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Living in a Material World: Comparing the EU’s Foreign Trade Policy towards South America and Southeast Asia

2014 Royal Monastery of Yuste, Cacéres, Spain Understanding the EU’s Relations with Brazil and MERCOSUR: A Q ualitative Analysis of the EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership against the Background of the EU-MERCOSUR Negotiations

Campus Talks

2017 Vienna Debate The EU’s trade policy paradigm and potential alternatives University of Vienna, Austria

2016 Lecture Basics of political science EU Research (together with Henning Deters and Magnus G. Schoeller) University of Vienna, Austria

2016 Lunchtime Seminar Power, preferences and the European Parliament in EU trade policy Institute for European Integration Research, Austria

2016 Workshop Designing Legitimacy in International Organizations Parliamentarization in International Organizations European University Institute, Italy

2015 Comparative Regional Integration Seminar Series Living in a Material World: Comparing the EU’s Foreign Trade Policy towards South America and Southeast Asia European University Institute, Italy

2014 Workshop The EU in International Negotiations The EU’s foreign trade policy towards South America European University Institute, Italy

2013 Workshop In Between – Hegemony and Rising Powers Brazil as a Regional Power in South America: Pure Rhetoric or Actual Leadership? European University Institute, Italy

Professional Service

ECPR Official Representative for the Institute for European Integration Research, University of Vienna, Austria

Membership: Council of European Studies, UACES

Reviewer for: Asia Europe Journal, European Political Science Review, Journal of European Public Policy, Politics and Governance

2017 Event Organization, University of Vienna, Austria Vienna Debate The EU’s trade policy paradigm and potential alternatives With Gerda Falkner

2017 Panel organization and chair at the ECPR General Conference, Oslo, Norway

The European Parliament between Supranationalism and (New) Intergovernmentalism Together with Magnus G. Schoeller

2017 Panel chair at the Conference for Europeanists, Glasgow, United Kingdom Nation State and Economic Integration

2017 Lunchtime Seminar Chair, Institute for European Integration Research, Vienna EU Border Management: Interagency relations and their impact on fundamental rights (presenter: Peter Slominski)

2016 Lunchtime Seminar Organization, Institute for European Integration Research, Vienna National Parliaments and EU economic policy since the eurozone crisis (presenter: Katrin Auel)

2015 Panel Chair at the UACES Conference, Bilbao, Spain The International Perspective of EU Trade Policy

2014 Workshop Organization, European University Institute, Italy The EU in International Negotiations With Adrienne Héritier and Markus Gastinger

2014 Workshop Organization, European University Institute, Italy Game Theory for Social Scientists With the support of Adrienne Héritier and Diego Gambetta

2013 Workshop Organization, European University Institute, Italy In Between – Hegemony and Rising Powers With Ulrich Krotz and Camille Brugier

2011 Conference Organization, O tto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany Entgrenzte Räume? Konstruktion und Relevanz von Grenzen im Wandel With Andreas Christ, Madlen Reimer, Agatha Rudnik, Lukas Werther, and Jana Wolf

Conference and Workshop Presentations

2018 EUIA (The European Union in International Affairs), May 16-18, Brussels, Belgium Recalibrating executive- legislative relations in the European Union, CERiM, Brussels, Belgium, January 18-19, 2018

2017 Transformation or collapse? Politicization or integration in postfunctionalist times, ACCESS Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 13-14, 2017 ÖGPW Tag der Politikwissenschaft 2017, Graz, Austria, November 30 and December 1, 2017 IB- Sektionstagung, DVPW, Bremen, Germany, October 2-6, 2017 ECPR General Conference, Oslo, Norway, September 6-9, 2017 UACES 47th Annual Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, September 4-6, 2017 24th International Conference of Europeanists, 12-14 July, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop on The Politics of Global Value Chains: The Globalization of Production and the Challenge of Governance, April 25-30, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom The new politics of EU trade policy: (potential) consequences of parliamentarisation and politicisation, March 9-10 , Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

2016 ÖGPW Graduiertentagung, November 24-25, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria European Workshops on International Studies, April 6-8, Tuebingen, Germany; IB- Nachwuchstagung, April 15-17, Tutzing, Germany; EUIA (The European Union in International Affairs) V, May 11-13, Brussels, Belgium

10 th Pan- European Conference on International Relations, September 7-10, Izmir, Turkey (withdrawn)

2015 UACES conference, September 7-9, Bilbao, Spain GIFTA workshop on European Union FTAs at the London School of Economics, June 30-July 1, London, Great Britain Graduate Network Conference at the European University Institute and the Scuola Normale Superiore, March 4-6, Florence, Italy

2014 Swiss Annual Political Science Convention, January 20-31, Berne, Switzerland

2013 Interregional Online Workshop EU- ASEAN Perspective, October 12 8th Pan- European Conference on International Relations, September 18 -21, Warsaw, Poland 1st European Workshops in International Studies, June 5-8, Tartu, Estonia

2011 PEAC490 Poster Presentation, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Professional Skills and further Training

Languages German (Native Language) English (C2) Italian (B2) Spanish (B1) French (Basic Knowledge)

Training R Introduction (2017), R Advanced (2018)

Software SPSS, STATA, R, Citavi, Lars II, Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Methods Semi-structured Interviews, Standardized Interviews, Process-Tracing

Fieldwork Belgium (2014, 2015), Uruguay (2014)

Referees

Adrienne Hériter Emeritus Professor Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy Email: [email protected] Phone: 0039 055 4685 374/ 244

Carlos Closa Montero Research Professor Institute for Public Goods and Policies Albasanz 26-28 28037 Madrid Spain Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 0034 91 602 29 71

Ulrich Krotz Professor, Joint Chair RSCAS/ Department of Political and Social Sciences Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Via delle Fontanelle 18 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy Email: [email protected] Phone: 0039 055 4685740

Last updated on 15 February, 2018