prof. dr. S.F. (Steven) Blockmans
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Faculty of Law
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Oudemanhuispoort
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1012 CN Amsterdam
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S.F.Blockmans@uva.nl
Steven Blockmans is Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam (part-time) and a member of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), a centre of excellence of the Faculty of Law at the UvA.
He is Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank, a visiting professor at the University of Leuven, and one of the founding members of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER).
His expertise lies at the crossroads of international and EU law and governance. He has published widely on the institutional structures for EU external action, the Union’s role in global governance, norm promotion (inside out) and norm absorption (outside in), CFSP, CSDP, enlargement, ENP, trade and development.
Before joining CEPS and UvA, he was head of the department of research at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, an inter-university research centre based in The Hague. For more than 10 years, he has combined his academic work with contract research carried out for EU and national donors, consultancy activities and training for professionals. He has worked on numerous technical assistance projects in wider Europe and Asia. From 2005 to 2010, he was a lecturer in the in-service training provided by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) for DG Relex and other external relations DGs of the European Commission. From 2007 to 2009 he served as a long-term expert on legal approximation in the framework of an EU-sponsored project in support for the Ministry of European Integration of Albania.
He holds a PhD in law from Leiden University, where he worked as a lecturer from 1998 until 2002.
2014
- S. Blockmans (2014). The great devolution of powers bazaar. Intereconomics, 49 (5), 242-243. doi: 10.1007/s10272-014-0506-y
- A. Łazowski & S. Blockmans (2014). Between dream and reality: challenges to the legal rapprochement of the Western Balkans. In P. Van Elsuwege & R. Petrov (Eds.), Legislative approximation and application of EU law in the eastern neighbourhood of the European Union: towards a common regulatory space? (Routledge research in EU law) (pp. 108-133) London [etc.]: Routledge.
- S. Blockmans (2014). EU global peace diplomacy: institutional framework. In C. Stahn & H. Melber (Eds.), Peace diplomacy, global justice and international agency: rethinking human security and ethics in the spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld (pp. 404-436). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2013
- S. Blockmans (2013). EU global peace diplomacy: shaping the law on statehood. In D. Kochenov & F. Amtenbrink (Eds.), European Union's Shaping of the International Legal Order (pp. 130-168). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- S. Blockmans (2013). The ENP and 'more for more' conditionality: plus que ça change... In G. Fernández Arribas, K. Pieters & T. Takács (Eds.), The European Union's relations with the Southern-Mediterranean in the aftermath of the Arab Spring (CLEER Working Papers, 2013/3) (pp. 53-59). The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Institute.
- S. Blockmans & M. Spernbauer (2013). Legal Obstacles to Comprehensive EU External Security Action. European Foreign Affairs Review, 18 (4), 7-24.
- S. Blockmans, C. Hillion, M. Cremona, D. Curtin, G. De Baere, S. Duke, C. Eckes, B. Van Vooren, R. Wessel & J. Wouters (2013). EEAS 2.0: A legal commentary on Council Decision 2010/427/EU establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies.
- S. Blockmans (2013). Differentiation in CFSP. Studia Diplomatica, LXVI (3), 53-67.
2012
- S. Blockmans & B. van Vooren (2012). Revitalizing the European ‘Neighbourhood Economic Community’: the case for legally binding sectoral multilateralism. European Foreign Affairs Review, 17 (4), 577-604.
2014
- S. Blockmans (2014). Differentiation in CFSP. In S. Blockmans (Ed.), Differentiated integration in the EU: from the inside looking out (pp. 46-56). Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies.
- S. Blockmans (2014). L'union fait la force: making the most of the Solidarity Clause (Article 222 TFEU). In I. Govaere & S. Poli (Eds.), EU management of global emergencies: legal framework for combating threats and crises (Studies in EU external relations, 8) (pp. 111-135). Leiden: Brill Nijhoff.
2013
- R.A. Wessel & S. Blockmans (2013). Between autonomy and dependence: the EU legal order under the influence of international organisations - an introduction. In R.A. Wessel & S. Blockmans (Eds.), Between autonomy and dependence: the EU legal order under the influence of international organisations (pp. 1-9). The Hague: Asser Press.
- B. Van Vooren, S. Blockmans & J. Wouters (2013). The legal dimension of global governance: what role for the EU? An introduction. In B. Van Vooren, S. Blockmans & J. Wouters (Eds.), The EU's role in global governance: the legal dimension (pp. 1-4). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- S. Blockmans & R.A. Wessel (2013). The influence of international organisations on the EU and its legal order: between autonomy and dependence. In R.A. Wessel & S. Blockmans (Eds.), Between autonomy and dependence: the EU legal order under the influence of international organisations (pp. 297-312). The Hague: Asser Press.
- S. Blockmans (2013). The influence of NATO on the development of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. In R.A. Wessel & S. Blockmans (Eds.), Between autonomy and dependence: the EU legal order under the influence of international organisations (pp. 243-267). The Hague: Asser Press.
- B. Van Vooren, S. Blockmans & J. Wouters (2013). Conclusion: the role of the EU in the legal dimension of global governance. In B. Van Vooren, S. Blockmans & J. Wouters (Eds.), The EU's role in global governance: the legal dimension (pp. 325-350). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- S. Blockmans, C. Hillion, M. Cremona, D. Curtin, G. De Baere, S. Duke, C. Eckes, B. Van Vooren, R. Wessel & J. Wouters (2013). EEAS 2.0: Recommendations for the amendment of Council Decision 2010/427/EU establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service. (unknown, CEPS special reports, no 78). Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies.
- S. Blockmans (2013). EU global peace diplomacy: instruments to support status processes. In B. Van Vooren, S. Blockmans & J. Wouters (Eds.), The EU's role in global governance: the legal dimension (pp. 110-125). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014
- S. Blockmans (2014). The EU as a global peacemaker. . Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar EU External Relations Law and Governance aan de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Universiteit van Amsterdam (2013, November 15). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.[go to publisher's site]
2013
- S. Blockmans (2013). On: CJEU (Third Chamber). (2011, December 21), CML Rev. 2013-2, (Case C-72/11: criminal proceedings against Mohsen Afrasiabi, Behzad Sahabi, Heinz Ulrich Kessel: Curbing the circumvention of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme). p.623-639.
2013
- S.F. Blockmans (2013, July 11). Between war and peace: considering the European Union’s record and potential as an honest broker for peace. European Voice
2012
- S.F. Blockmans (2012, December 12). EEAS reloaded: recommendations for the 2013 review. CEPS Commentaries
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KU Leuven
Visiting Professor -
Centre of European Policy Studies
Senioe Research Fellow and Head of the Eu Foreign Policy Unit -
Centre for Law of EU External Relations
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Koninklijke Neder.Veren. voor Int. Recht
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