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All 16 individual Doctoral Calls for Applications are now closed.

  • PhD POSITION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 1

    Starting in Brussels, Belgium

    Dissensus over the Rule of Law in Transnational Parliamentary Arenas: The case of the European Parliament

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  • PhD POSITION IN POLITICAL ECONOMY & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 2

    Starting in Paris, France

    The capitalism-democracy nexus and struggles over European governance

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL & EUROPEAN LAW

    Early Stage Researcher 3

    Starting in Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Law and practice of the rule of law within the European Union

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 4

    Starting in Rome, Italy

    EU grand strategy in a competitive system: European liberal democracy in a multipolar world

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  • PhD POSITION IN COMPARATIVE & EUROPEAN LAW

    Early Stage Researcher 5

    Starting in Rome, Italy

    National and European courts reacting to dissensus: The case of fundamental rights protection

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  • PhD POSITION IN SOCIOLOGY & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 6

    Starting in Cluj, Romania

    The 'resistance’ social movement: towards a re-politicisation of the European public sphere

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  • PhD POSITION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 7

    Starting in Amsterdam, Netherlands

    The politics of the untidy right: illiberal democracy as a contagious concept

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  • PhD POSITION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE & EUROPEAN LAW

    Early Stage Researcher 8

    Starting in Copenhagen, Denmark

    Technocratic actors as ‘teachers’ of the rule of law: EU technical assistance, capacity-building and other pathways

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 9

    Starting in Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Contesting national sovereignty? Transnational civil society activism and EU external action against deforestation

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 10

    Starting in Rome, Italy

    Socio-economic contestation turned into democratic conflicts? EU comprehensive trade agreements in front of parliaments: the CETA CASE

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW & EUROPEAN LAW

    Early Stage Researcher 11

    Starting in Brussels, Belgium

    Legal contestation on the rule of law and its impact on EU cooperation in criminal matters with third parties: EU-MERCOSUR

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 12

    Starting in Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Contesting European border regimes: challenging and remaking EU migration governance

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & AREA STUDIES (Europe/Russia)

    Early Stage Researcher 13

    Starting in Brussels, Belgium

    Impact of dissensus driven by external competition on EU peace support & stability instruments and mechanisms

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  • PhD POSITION IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS & AREA STUDIES (Europe/Asia)

    Early Stage Researcher 14

    Starting in Brussels, Belgium

    Responding to competing authoritarian models: Japan and EU’s respective neighbourhoods compared

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  • PhD POSITION IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS & AREA STUDIES (Europe/ Neighborhood / Eastern Partnership & Mediterranean)

    Early Stage Researcher 15

    Starting in Brussels, Belgium

    Impact of competing models on the EU’s political conditionality in a turbulent neighbourhood

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  • PhD POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW & EUROPEAN LAW

    Early Stage Researcher 16

    Starting in Geneva, Switzerland

    The European Constitutional Counter-Revolution

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  • PhD POSITION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE & EUROPEAN STUDIES

    Early Stage Researcher 17

    Starting in ULB, Brussels

    Political Narratives and EU Legitimization: Between Unity and Dissensus

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