The Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration
Annual Conference 2015
October 11‐12 2015
Tel Aviv University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (www.iasei.org.il) welcomes academics, students, researchers, government officials, business people, journalists and anyone with an occupational interest in the study of the European Union, to its annual conference, which will take place on Sunday, 11 October at Tel Aviv University and on Monday, 12 October at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Attendance for the audience is free of charge and no pre‐registration is required.
Sunday, 11 October 2015, Tel-Aviv University Room 527 Naftali building
09:00-09:15 Opening
09:15-11:00 The Political Economy of the EU Chair: Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University
Discussants: Elise Brezis, Orni Livny
Elise Brezis, Head, Aharon Meir Center for Banking, Bar-Ilan University The Revolving Door and Corruption in the EU
Tomer Deutsch, University of Haifa, Centre for German and European Studies
Honour Thy Parents - Germany is too Poor for Such Things: How the Idea(l) of Inter-Generational Responsibly Became a Pawn in the Modern German Welfare State
Katja Septimus-Bratrschovsky, Future4you GmbH
Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE) in Europe and Its Implications for the Start-Up Nation Lilach Ben Yaakov, Israel Agendas Project (University of Texas at Austin)
Does the One With the Money Own the Public Opinion? Business Interest and EU Media Coverage in the UK
Orni Livny, Tel-Aviv University
From Protection of the Immigrant, to Protection from the Immigrant - Changes in British Labour Attitudes Towards Immigration, as Reflected in Election Manifestos
11:00-12:00 IASEI General Assembly 12:00-13:00 - Lunch break
13:00-13:30 Keynote address by Gad Propper, Chairman, Israel-European Union Chamber of Commerce and Industry
13:30-15:30 Citizenship, Immigration and Extremism in the EU Chair: Menachem Mautner, Tel Aviv University
Discussants: Alberto Spektorowski, Esther Lopatin, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Christian Joppke, University of Bern
Civic Integration of Immigrants in Western Europe: A Review of the Debates Alberto Spektorowski, Tel Aviv University
Civic Integration as Discriminatory “non–Discrimination” Ingrid Schweikert, Tel Aviv University
Religious Freedom in the European Union and its Member States from a Legal Perspective Edan Raviv, Tel Aviv University
This Land Is Whose Land? Integration, Multiple Citizenships, and Political Nativism in Post-War Europe
Pinchas Landau, independent researcher
Political Extremism Index (PEI): An Objective Tool for Tracking and Assessing the Level of Political Extremism in the EU
15:45-17:30 The Political Economy of the Euro Crisis Chair: Tal Sadeh
Discussant: Michel Strawczynski
Charles Wyplosz, Director, International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies, Graduate Institute Geneva
The Eurozone after Stress Testing
Michel Strawczynski, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Crisis and Its Aftermath: the Composition of Government Expenditure in European Countries Joseph Zeira, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Europe: From Monetary Unification to Fiscal Uniformity?
Daniel Tenengauzer and Daria Parkhomenko, RBC Capital Markets - Emerging Markets & Global FX Strategy
Monday, 12 October 2015, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Room 1750 block 7 Humanities building
09:00-09:15 Opening
09:15-09:45 Keynote address by Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen, Head of Delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel
09:45-11:30 EU-Israel Relations
Chair: Maya Sion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussant: Roby Nathanson, Director of MACRO - The Center for Political Economics Arie Reich, Bar Ilan University
EU Sponsored Illegal Construction in the West Bank – Legal and Political Aspects Gilad Segal, NGO Monitor
The Role of NGOs in the Evolution of EU Trade Regulations and Political Linkage: From the EU-Israel Technical Arrangement to Guidelines and CSR
Neuman Shlomo, the Israeli Economic and Social Committee
Israel and the EU- Aspirations and Reality, Twenty Years After the Barcelona Declaration (in Hebrew)
Tsilla Hershco, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University The Impact of Israel - EU Relations on the Security Cooperation Between Israel and NATO
11:45-13:15 Security in the EU
Chair: Alfred Tovias, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discussant: Maya Sion
Antonio Missiroli, Director of the Institute for Security Studies of the EU
Towards an EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy: Drivers, Potential and Limits Yoram Haftel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Delegation and Security Cooperation within Regional Economic Organizations Mor Sobol, Institute of European & American Studies, Academia Sinica
The New Agent in the Block - Exploring Multiple Agents -Multiple Principals Relationships in EU Foreign Policy
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 The EU and the Mediterranean Chair: Alfred Tovias
Discussant: Arie Reich
Joseph Agassi, Tel Aviv University and York University, Toronto Israeli Nationalism: Between the European Union and the Islamic State Sara Kahn-Nisser, The Open University of Israel
Rational, Sociological or Both? Identifying the Mechanisms of ENP Influence Angelos Giannakopoulos, University of Dortmund/Tel Aviv University
The New Roadmap of EU Energy Diplomacy and its Relevance to the Eastern Mediterranean
16:00-17:45 The EU and International Trade Chair: Lior Herman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discussant: Rachel Frid de Vries
Rachel Frid de Vries, Carmel Academic Center
The EU Rule of Law at the International Level: Trade, Politics and Self Restraint by the CJEU Shai Moses, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Development of Supranational Governance in European Financial Integration and the Instrumental Use of the de Larosière Group as Empowered Transnational Epistemic Community Agent
Nadav Halevi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Changes in Export Affinity after the Creation of the Euro Eugene Kontorovich, Northwestern University School of Law Avi Bell, Bar Ilan University
