Esther Barbé
Senior Research Associate, IBEI
Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Biography
Esther Barbé is Professor of International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Prof. Barbé holds a doctorate in Political Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research areas focus on Spanish foreign policy, European Union foreign policy, Euro-mediterranean relations, gender and international security, power transition and normative contestation in multilateral institutions. Her work has been published among other journals in International Affairs, European Journal of Public Policy, Cooperation and Conflict and Mediterranean Politics.
Prof. Barbé is member of the Scientific Council of the Real Instituto Elcano. She has also been a member of the Scientific Council of the European University Institute. She is a member of the International Advisory Council of various scientific journals, among them the European Journal of International Relations and the European Review of International Studies.
Since 2001, Prof. Barbé is director of the Consolidated Research Group "Observatori de Política Exterior Europea", acknowledged by the Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR). She has also participated as main researcher in the projects CHALLENGE (6th EU Framework Programme), EUPROX (National Plan I+D+i 2004-2007), DYNAMUS (National Plan I+D+i 2008-2011), EU-IANUS (National Plan I+D+i 2012-2015).
Background and education
- (1986) PhD in Political Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- (1979) BA in Information Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- (1981) Diplôme International Relations section, Institut d'études Politiques, Sciences Po, París
Research
Research interests
- Euro-Mediterranean relations
- International Security
- Multilateralism
- Spanish and European Union's foreign policy
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
- Envisioning a New Governance Architecture for a Global Europe (ENGAGE) (Researcher)
- The Emergence of European Sovereignty in a World of Systemic Rivalry: Strategic Autonomy and Permissive Consensus (EUSOV) (Coordinator | Contact person)
- EU Research and Education Network on Europe in the World (EU-RENEW) (Researcher)
- EU Research and Education Network on Foreign policy issues: Values and Democracy (EU-VALUES) (Researcher)
Selected publications
- 2024.Sociedad internacional híbrida: gobernanza, solidarismo y soberanismo.In:
Sanahuja, José Antonio
.La sociedad internacional. Miradas iberoamericanas. Ensayos en homenaje a Celestino del Arenal Moyúa.Madrid:Fundación Carolina.Link
- 2023.Orden en transición y normas en discusión.Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals,134 (septiembre de 2023):21-36. DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2023.134.2.21Link
- 2023.A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Journal of European Integration,45:3:431-446Link
- 2022.Chasing gender equality norms: the case of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.International Relations,1-24Link
- 2021.Spanish Foreign Policy: Navigating Global Shifts and Domestic Crises.In:
Joly, Jeroen K.; Haesebrouck, Tim
.Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991.Cham:Palgrave Macmillan,pp: 259-283.Link - 2020.The European Union and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: United in Diversity?.In:
Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth; Vlaskamp, Martijn; Barbé, Esther
.European Union Contested. Foreign Policy in a New Global Context.Cham:Springer,pp: 133-152.Link - 2019.The EU global strategy: the dynamics of a more politicized and politically integrated foreign policy.Cambridge Review of International Affairs,DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2019.1588227Link
- 2016.The EU policy responses to a shifting multilateral system.Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire:Palgrave Macmillan.Link