The Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Relations (EUEXT) is very pleased to host a public lecture with visiting scholar, Professor Ieva Giedraitytė, Vilnius University.

This presentation shares work in progress from a comparative study of how the United States and the European Union have engaged with their southern neighborhoods—Central America and the Maghreb—over the past decade. It examines shifts in strategy under three US administrations and successive EU Commissions, focusing on the balance between domination and engagement in their regional approaches.

Drawing on strategic and bilateral documents, the project seeks to develop an empirically grounded typology of regional order and offers preliminary insights into how major powers attempt to structure asymmetric relationships—and how those efforts are accepted, resisted, or reinterpreted by neighboring states.

Professor Giedraitytė is a Jean Monnet Chair visiting scholar in residence at Carleton University from May-June 2025, where she is co-teaching a summer class on regional powers in Eurasia and the Mediterranean with Professor Crina Viju-Miljusevic, Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS).

This is a hybrid event being hosted in-person and online with Zoom. Please complete the registration form by Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 12:00PM at the Jean Monnet Chair event page.