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We are pleased to announce the first doctoral colloquium of the newly granted Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Europe in the World"

The role of Europe in the world has been subject of academic debates in the last years. However, these have largely taken place in the epistemic communities of International Relations (IR), Political and Social Theory, History or Postcolonial Studies, and they have thus far been poorly received in European Studies. The Centre of Excellence “Europe in the World” (CoE WorldEU) will tackle this gap. Europe not being identical with the European Union, discussing “Europe in the World” entails to study both the EU and its Member States in a world order that changes in (geo)political, economic, ecological, and ideational respects. Externally, Russia’s war of aggression and the Israel-Hamas conflict followed the global financial crisis and the COVID- 19 pandemic. Former centres and peripheries in the world are changing dynamically. Climate change underlines that the planet’s future is a major issue and challenge. These issues are linked to internal challenges for the EU, i.e., democratic backsliding, rule of law conflicts, migration, and the ecological turnaround. Hence, ideational dimensions are a core dimension in all this: the liberal economic model, the conflict between democracy and autocracy, and, all in all, the concepts, ideas, and values that Europe stands for are often implicitly or explicitly contested. The CoE WorldEU will therefore set its main focus on the ideas, concepts, and values of both the EU and its Member States in the changing world order.