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Speaker – Frank Schimmelfennig
Professor of European Politics and a member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich.
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary in 2018, the Journal of European Integration inaugurated the practice of inviting a leading scholar to give the JEI Annual Lecture. Since then, speakers have included Nathalie Tocci (IAI Rome, 2018), Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford University, 2019), Sven Biscop (Bruges, 2020), Vivien A. Schmidt (Rome, 2021), R. Daniel Kelemen (Rome, 2022), and Mitchell Orenstein (Pittsburgh, 2023).
The 2026 JEI Annual Lecture will be given by Frank Schimmelfennig on 2 July 2026 in front of a live audience in the context of the 13th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU) in Catania, Italy.
World orders shape the boundary configurations of political communities. As successful as the EU has been in adapting to and advancing the (neo)liberal order, it is struggling to find its place in the current international transformation. The lecture traces the development of the EU boundary configuration since the 1980s, examines its recent responses to global political change, and explores alternatives for EU political development.
Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics and a member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich.
He is also a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, an Associate of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Chairman of the Scientific Board of Institut für Europäische Politik Berlin, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. His research focuses on European integration and, more specifically, integration theory, EU enlargement, and differentiated integration. He currently directs an ERC project on “Bordering Europe: Boundary Formation in European Integration”
Established in 1977, the Journal of European Integration is a leading journal that publishes scholarly work from a variety of disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from political science and political economy to public administration, law, history, sociology and cultural studies, on all aspects of the European integration process. European integration is broadly understood as a pan-European process rather than merely the European Union, though the majority of JEI contributions might be devoted to the latter.
The journal also publishes comparative studies of federalism, regional integration and other forms of multilateral cooperation, as well as articles dealing with the European Union’s external relations and its global role, be it concerning economic, diplomatic or security relations.
The main purpose of the Journal of European Integration is to serve a broad readership which implies that articles should be of a wider relevance rather than of a highly technical or narrow nature. The emphasis should be on scholarly work and should provide, in particular, analysis rather than description or assertion.
The JEI Editorial team consists of Editors: Adding square bullet points: