Prof. Dr. Giulia Tercovich is Deputy Director of the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) and Assistant Professor of European and International Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She holds a double doctoral degree in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she was an Erasmus Mundus GEM PhD Fellow in Globalisation, the EU and Multilateralism.
Her research examines the European Union’s foreign and security policy, with particular attention to how geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts reshape EU decision-making, political leadership and strategic engagement in the Indo-Pacific. Her work has been published in the Journal of European Integration, European Security, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management and Global Affairs, among others. Her monograph, Assessing EU Leadership in Interregional Relations: The Case of the Institutionalisation of ASEAN Disaster Management (Routledge, 2022), analyses EU leadership through the lens of interregional cooperation. She is also committed to innovative and active teaching, including policy simulations, flipped classrooms, and blended learning approaches.
Selected Research
“The European Union’s Strategic Autonomy in Foreign Policy: European Responses to American and Chinese Influence Over the Arms Embargo on China and Taiwan”, Journal of European Integration, 47(6) (2025) – with Meijer, H.
“Shifting narratives? The EU’s Approach to the Indo-Pacific After the War in Ukraine”, Journal of European Integration, (2024) 1–21 – with Grgić, G.
Assessing EU Leadership in Inter-regional Relations: The Case of the Institutionalisation of ASEAN Disaster Management, Routledge, 2022.
“The High Representative and the Covid-19 Crisis: A Preliminary Assessment”, Global Affairs, 6(3) (2020): 287-299 – with Amadio Viceré, M.G.
“The Post-Lisbon High Representatives: An Introduction”, European security, 29(3) (2020): 259-274 – with Amadio Viceré, M.G. and Carta, C.
“Shaping the European External Action Service and its Post-Lisbon Crisis Management Structures: An Assessment of the EU High Representatives’ Political Leadership”, European security, 29(3) (2020): 275-300 – with Koops, J.A.
European Approaches to United Nations Peacekeeping: Towards a Stronger Re-engagement?, Routledge, 2018 – with Koops, J.A. (eds.).
“A European Return to UN Peacekeeping: Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Ahead”, International Peacekeeping, 23(5) (2016): 597-609 – with Koops, J.A.
“Italy and UN Peacekeeping: Constant Transformation”, International Peacekeeping, 23(5) (2016): 681-701.
“The EEAS Crisis Response System”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 22(3) (2014): 150-157.
Selected Policy Analysis
“Europe’s Eyes on Taiwan: Strategic Ties, Different Perspectives”, CSDS In-Depth Paper, 2025 – with Comerma, L.
“Global Gateway: Advancing EU-India Priorities in the Indo-Pacific”, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR) Policy Brief Series on India-Europe Relations, 2025 – with Sinha, R.
“Navigating the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Priorities for the New EU Leadership”, CSDS Policy Brief, 2024.
“Two Elections, One Challenge: How the European and Taiwanese Elections Mean a New EU Taiwan Playbook is Needed”, CSDS Policy Brief, 2024 – with Comerma, L.
“EP Study on Qualified Majority Voting in EU Foreign Policy: A Cost of Non-Europe Report”, European Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS), 2023 – with Fiott, D.
“Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age”, CSDS Policy Brief, 2023 – with Fiott, D.
“Narratives and Interests: the EU’s Position on Taiwan Before and After the War on Ukraine”, CSDS Policy Brief, 2023.
“Making EU Foreign Policy a Reality: the Role of the High Representative”, ECPR The Loop, 2020 – with Amadio Viceré, M.G.
“Tra istituzioni, leadership e governance: quale politica estera per l’UE post-Lisbona?”, Luiss Open, 2020 – with Amadio Viceré, M.G.
“What Role for the EU High Representative During the Covid-19 Crisis? Reflections on Potential Avenues of Research”, VUB-IES Commentary, 2020 – with Amadio Viceré, M.G.
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