Recently, I came across an intriguing book title built around three keywords: “EU”, “Law” and “Geopolitics”. In 2022, the European Union’s foreign and security policy was subjected to a series of real-world tests at the intersection of these very themes. In this edition of The IR thinker, we explore what these developments reveal about the EU’s external action through the lenses of law and geopolitics: what can we learn about the Union’s foreign and security policies within these frameworks, and does the EU possess a sufficiently robust legal architecture to underpin its foreign policy in today’s shifting geopolitical landscape?

Luigi Lonardo

Dr Luigi Lonardo is a lecturer in EU law at University College Cork, Ireland, and visiting lecturer in European foreign, security and defence policy at Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Publications:

EU Common Foreign and Security Policy After Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics

Russia’s 2022 War Against Ukraine and the EU’s Foreign Policy Reaction: Context, Diplomacy, and Law

Content

00:00 - Introduction

04:00 - Definition of geopolitics

13:03 - Four concepts of EU foreign policy

18:20 - Common security and foreign policy

20:11 - Treaty of Lisbon

22:52 - EU enlargement current stage

28:54 - Geopolitics of Russian energy supplies

31:04 - Geopolitics of water

37:20 - EU enlargement geopolitics

42:05 - Legal basis in the EU law

43:35 - Sanctions and COREPER II

46:00 - EU territory

48:45 - EU constitution

52:25 - Common geopolitical challenges

56:30 - Recommendations for EU geopolitics

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