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I am a PhD candidate in European Studies at the Department of Historical and Classical Studies. My research interests are related to the EU's political economy, crisis management and the EU's policy process. I have a bachelor's and a master's degree in European Studies from NTNU, both with specialization within European political economy, with a primary focus on economic and financial crises in the EU.

PhD project

How does crisis-induced policy learning affect European integration?

Working title: Building a Union through Crises: The EU, Crisis-induced Policy Learning and the European Integration Process, 2008-2022

Crises have affected the European integration process from its beginning. Since the late 2000s, the EU has faced an abundance of external and internal crises, from the Sovereign Debt Crisis to Russia’s current war on Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis. Some crises have forged greater European solidarity, like the Covid-19 pandemic, where common solutions led to a temporary increase in fiscal capacity at the EU level. In contrast, others, such as the Migration Crisis, threatened the European project, and was a contributing factor to Britain’s decision to leave the EU in 2016. To understand how these crises affect the EU, it is essential to understand how the Union deals with and, crucially, learns from crises. In my PhD project I will analyse the EU’s learning process from different crises over the past decade to identify how, and to what extent, this learning has impacted the process of European integration.

Supervisors: Michael J. Geary and Assem Dandashly