
Professor Ana E Juncos Garcia
BA(Madrid), PhD(Lough.)
Current positions
Professor of European Politics
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
My primary research interest lies in European foreign and security policy, with a particular focus on the development on the EU’s conflict prevention and crisis management capabilities and its role in conflict resolution. My previous research project examined the EU’s intervention in the Western Balkans since the dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation in 1991. This study looked into the coherence and effectiveness of EU foreign policy over time and assessed the EU’s contribution to post-conflict stabilisation and peacebuilding in Bosnia. In other work, I have examined EU security sector reform and the institutionalisation of EU foreign policy, in particular, in relation to the newly created European External Action Service. My current research examines EU peacebuilding in the neighbourhood, including the shift towards resilience approaches at the EU level.
Current research projects:
Consortium Coordinator, EU-CIVCAP Preventing and responding to conflict: developing EU Civilian Capabilities for a sustainable peace (H2020 Grant Agreement: 653227).
Principal Investigator, PeaceCapacity Peace Capacity: building capacities in civil society for inclusive peace processes in the Horn of Africa and the Western Balkans (ESRC IAA)
Principal Investigator, Resilient Peace Exploring resilient peacebuilding actors, cultures and policy transfer in West Africa (WUN RDF)
Books:
■ EU Foreign and Security Policy in Bosnia. The Politics of Coherence and Effectiveness, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
■ Making Sense of EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Institutions, Policies and Roles, with Eva Gross, London: Routledge.
Recent journal articles:
■ ‘Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance’ (2018), Contemporary Security Policy, with F. Ejdus.
■ 'EU security sector reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Reform or resist?' (2018), Contemporary Security Policy.
■ 'Resilience as the new EU foreign policy paradigm: a pragmatist turn?' (2017), European Security, Vol 26(1), 1-18.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Contested EU Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitics (EUFOG)
Principal Investigator
Description
The doctoral network EUFOG will contribute to a better understanding of the ways in which the EU is reconsidering key tenets of its international role in the face of the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/12/2024 to 30/11/2028
European Diplomacy Practices post-Lisbon: Adding Value through Cooperation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/04/2020 to 31/03/2022
European Diplomacy Practices post-Lisbon: Adding Value through Cooperation
Principal Investigator
Description
“European Diplomacy Practices post-Lisbon: Adding Value through Cooperation” (EuroDipl) aims to assess the impact and significance of new European diplomatic practices in third countries between the EU and its member…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/04/2020 to 31/03/2022
Building Bridges for Reconciliation and Peacebuilding: Colombian Overseas Collaborators and University of Bristol Researchers
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
We expect to build a bridge that connects the existent experiences, expertise, development needs and on-going initiatives in Colombia, with UoB research interests and agendas. These encounters will catalyse collaborative…Dates
01/10/2016 to 31/07/2017
EU-CIVCAP: Preventing and responding to conflict: developing EU CIVilian CAPabilities for a sustainable peace
Principal Investigator
Description
Approximately 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence. Although the number of total armed conflicts has declined in recent years, the consequences…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/12/2015 to 30/11/2018
Thesis supervisions
The local dynamics of violence in post-accord Guatemala
Supervisors
Europeanisation through Crossloading
Supervisors
Reencountering Our Humanity
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/07/2013EU Foreign and Security Policy in Bosnia
EU Foreign and Security Policy in Bosnia
EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management. Roles, institutions and policies
EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management. Roles, institutions and policies
Manufacturing Esprit de Corps: The Case of the European External Action Service
Journal of Common Market Studies
Member state-building versus peacebuilding. The contradictions of EU state-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
East European Politics
Invisible and unaccountable? National representatives and Council officials in EU Foreign Policy
Journal of European Public Policy
Recent publications
01/03/2024Conceptual politics and resilience-at-work in the European Union
Review of International Studies
Contested but Resilient
Journal of Common Market Studies
Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression
Comparative European Politics
Populists in the Shadow of Unanimity
Politics and Governance
Pragmatist Power Europe
Cooperation and Conflict