The senior academic staff of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies regularly (co-)edits volumes with renown publishing houses as well as special issues in leading international journals. For further publications, please consult their individual online bios.
 

Books

Academic staff of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies (co-)authored or (co-)edited the following volumes, often based on international conferences held at the College of Europe: 

• Gstöhl, Sieglinde & Simon Schunz (eds), The External Action of the European Union: Concepts, Approaches, Theories (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).
• Men, Jing, Simon Schunz & Duncan Freeman (eds), The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA: A New Global Order? (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020).
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde & David Phinnemore (eds), The Proliferation of Privileged Partnerships between the European Union and its Neighbours (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019).
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde & Dirk De Bièvre, The Trade Policy of the European Union (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
• Damro, Chad, Sieglinde Gstöhl & Simon Schunz (eds), The European Union’s Evolving External Engagement: Towards New Sectoral Diplomacies? (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).
• Men, Jing & Annika Linck (eds), The EU and China: Reform and Governance (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017).
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde & Simon Schunz (eds), Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017).
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde (ed.), The European Neighbourhood Policy in a Comparative Perspective: Models, Challenges, Lessons (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016).
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde & Erwan Lannon (eds), The European Union’s Broader Neighbourhood: Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation beyond the European Neighbourhood Policy (London: Routledge, 2015).
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde & Erwan Lannon (eds), The Neighbours of the European Union's Neighbours: Diplomatic and Geopolitical Dimensions beyond the European Neighbourhood Policy (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
• Keukeleire, Stephan & Tom Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edn, 2014; London: Bloomsbury, 3rd edn, 2022).
• Reuter, Etienne & Jing Men (eds), EU-China Green Cooperation (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014).
• Men, Jing & Wei Shen (eds), The European Union, the United States and China: Towards a New International Order? (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014).
• Men, Jing & Benjamin Barton (eds), China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors? (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).

Special journal issues

Academic staff of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies (co-)edited the following special issues of journals emanating from international conferences held at the College of Europe:

• Gstöhl Sieglinde & Simon Schunz, “Striking a Balance? How the European Union Manages the Environment-Trade Nexus”, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, vol. 27, no. 6, 2025.
• Gadbled, Robin, Didier Georgakakis, Sieglinde Gstöhl, Simon Schunz & Lieve Van Woensel, “Future-proofing Policies: How Foresight Shapes European Union Governance”, European Law Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2024.
• Gstöhl, Sieglinde, Joris Larik & Simon Schunz, “The European Union and the Governance of Contested Global Spaces in an Era of Geopolitics”, Journal of European Integration, vol. 45, no. 8, 2023.
• Schunz, Simon, Giles Scott-Smith & Luk Van Langenhove, “Broadening Soft Power in EU-US Relations”, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 24, no. 2/1, 2019.
• Men, Jing, “EU-China Relations and Diplomacy”, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 19, 2014.
• Schunz, Simon, Sieglinde Gstöhl & Luk Van Langenhove (eds), “Major Powers in Shared Neighbourhoods”, Contemporary Politics, vol. 24, no. 1, 2018.
• Men Jing. “Mass Communication and EU-China Relations”, International Communication Gazette, vol. 78, no. 1-2, 2016.
• Men, Jing & Ramon Pacheco Pardo (eds), “Convergence and Divergence between the EU and China”, Asia Europe Journal, vol. 12, no. 1-2, 2014

College of Europe Studies

The books series College of Europe Studies / Cahiers du Collège d’Europe, published by P.I.E. Peter Lang in Brussels, focuses on research carried out at the College of Europe. Current and former academic staff of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies contributed the following volumes:

• Vol. 20: The European Union’s Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education and the Case of Ireland, Ludovic Highman, 2017.
• Vol. 18: European Union Foreign Policy and the Global Climate Regime, Simon Schunz, 2014
• Vol. 15: European Union Diplomacy: Coherence, Unity and Effectiveness, edited by Dieter Mahncke & Sieglinde Gstöhl, 2012.
• Vol. 14: The European Neighbourhood Policy's Challenges / Les défis de la politique européenne de voisinage, edited by Erwan Lannon, 2012.
• Vol. 12: Prospects and Challenges for EU-China Relations in the 21st Century - The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, edited by Jing Men & Giuseppe Balducci, 2010.
• Vol. 4: Europe’s Near Abroad: Promises and Prospects of the EU's Neighbourhood Policy, edited by Dieter Mahncke & Sieglinde Gstöhl, 2008.