The European Union has mobilised multiple tools of its external action in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, most notably a multitude of sanctions. These restrictive measures, currently five sanctions packages, are “designed to weaken Russia’s economic base, depriving it of critical technologies and markets, and significantly curtailing its ability to wage war”.

At this first ENGAGE roundtable, Ana Hernández Sierra, Viktor Szép and Jan Wouters will discuss how the EU uses sanctions to respond to violations of international law and threats to European security. The panellists will shed light on the sanctions’ rationale, their place in EU foreign policy and the question of their impact and effectiveness as well as the challenges of the Union’s decision-making processes and the coordination with its international partners. The panel will be moderated by Gustavo Müller.

Bio

A lawyer by training, Mr. Rodolphe Munoz has worked for several international organisations. He has been for 15 years at the European Commission working on different legal issues. Currently, he is responsible for the implementation of the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) component of the EU Space Regulation. This comprises Space Surveillance and Tracking, Space Weather, and Near Earth Objects. Mr. Munoz was in charge of drafting the EU’s recent Joint Communication on a European Approach to Space Traffic Management (STM). Currently, he is following up on the implementation of the ten actions contained in the STM Communication.

Abstract

The webinar looks into the diverse approaches, models and solutions for partnerships in the European space sector and discusses them from a legal perspective. The space sector traditionally builds upon a close interaction between public and commercial stakeholders. However, both space policymakers and industry do not stop to call for a new ways of partnerships. In view of NewSpace, industry namely calls for anchor tenancy commitments from public clients. The webinar starts from a space policy perspective, then identifies the different partnership approaches, categorizes and compares them and provides legal background to each of them.

Short Bio

Dr Ingo Baumann is partner of BHO Legal, a boutique technology law firm based in Cologne, Germany and one of Europe´s leading space law firms. Ingo has more than 20 years of professional experience in the space industry. He wrote his PhD at the Cologne Institute of Air and Space Law on the international law of satellite communications. Before establishing BHO Legal, he was legal adviser within the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), becoming later the Head of the DLR Galileo Project Office, and CEO of DLR GfR mbH, the operating company of DLR for the German Galileo Control Centre. He is advising ministries, space agencies, research organisations, universities and companies of all types involved in large public space programmes as well as commercial space activities across all application areas. His expertise covers international and national space law, international and national telecommunications law, procurement law, R&D law, IT law and all types of space industry contracts. Over the years, Ingo has been involved in numerous large public space programs such as Galileo, Copernicus, EDRS, or SatcomBW and he is closely supporting several NewSpace companies in their business development.
Ingo Baumann is member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), the Space Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and various other professional space industry organisations. He is co-editor of the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Commercial Space Activities, column editor of “GNSS & the Law” in InsideGNSS and regular speaker at space industry conferences.

Moderator: Ms. Giulia Pavesi (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies)

Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz (German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Professor of International Relations at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) joins the GLOBE Webinar Series to discuss his new book Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2021). Prof. Dr. Kolja Raube (KU Leuven) as the dicussant will then offer some reflections before an audience Q&A.

About the book: How and under what conditions does the EU shape processes of institution building in other regional organizations? This book develops and tests a theory of interorganizational diffusion in international relations that explains how successful pioneer organizations shape institutional choices in other organizations by affecting the institutional preferences and bargaining strategies of national governments. Lenz argues that Europe’s foremost regional organization systematically affects institution building abroad, but that such influence varies across different types of organization. Mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, it shows how the EU institutionally strengthens regional organizations through active engagement and by building its own institutions at home. Yet the contractual nature of other regional organizations bounds this causal influence: EU influence makes an identifiable difference primarily in those organizations that, like the EU itself, rest on an open-ended contract. Evidence for these claims is drawn from the statistical analysis of a dataset on the institutionalization of 35 regional organizations from 1950 to 2017, as well as from single and comparative case studies on institutional creation and (non-)change in the SADC, Mercosur, ASEAN and NAFTA.

About the author: Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz is Professor of International Relations at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies. His research focuses on international and regional governmental organizations, EU in global regionalism, international institutional complexity, institutional design and evolution, legitimacy and legitimation, and diffusion theories.

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Kolja Raube (KU Leuven)
Moderator: Alex Andrione-Moylan (KU Leuven)

Participation is free and the webinar can be joined from anywhere in the world.

The online event will be divided into two sections, (1) ‘EU and China Investments: Right of States to Regulate’ and (2) ‘Towards Ratification by EU and China’. The first section will be discussed by Prof. Markus Krajewski, Erlangen (University of Erlangen Nuremberg) and Dr Angelos Dimopoulos (QMUL), and the second session will count with the participation of Dr Shaohua Yan (Fudan University) and Prof. Men Jing, Dalian University of Technology.

In barely a year, Covid-19 has transformed from a localized outbreak to a global pandemic and, in the process, dramatically altered the existence of individuals, nations and the international community. As we mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization designating Covid-19 as a global pandemic, it is imperative to reflect on the role of global governance in addressing current and emerging challenges to the international community, international law and policy.

In this context, the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law’s Global Governance and Emerging Law Trends & Book Launch conference will examine the many aspects of these trends in the legal and regulatory spheres. The conference will also serve as the official book launch for Prof. Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington’s new book, International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Implementation. The goal of the conference is to assemble diverse voices from across disciplines to take stock of the impacts of the pandemic on global governance and how this will parallel future challenges for global governance in the legal and regulatory spheres.

Augusto Lopez-Claros joins the GLOBE Webinar Series to discuss his new book "Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century" (Cambridge 2020, co-authored). Fulya Apaydin (IBEI) will then offer some reflections before a Q&A with the audience. About the book: Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Lopez-Carlos, Dahl and Groff provide ambitious but reasonable proposals to give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to address effectively the catastrophic risks facing humanity that require international cooperation. The solution, the authors suggest, is to extend to the international level the same principles of sensible governance that exist in well-governed national systems: rule of law, legislation in the common interest, an executive branch to implement such legislation, and courts to enforce it. The best protection is unified collective action, based on shared values and respect for diversity, to implement international principles to advance universal human prosperity and well-being. About the author: Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist with over 30 years of experience in international organizations, including as the Director of the Global Indicators Group at the World Bank, Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum, and a Resident Representative for the International Monetary Fund. He was also Senior Fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and Professor of Economics at the University of Chile (Santiago). He has written extensively on a wide range of topics in his field, including European economic integration, determinants of competitiveness, reform issues in transition economies, and economic dimensions of gender inequality. Moderator: Kari Otteburn (KU Leuven) Discussant: Fulya Apaydin (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals)