Oriol Costa Fernández
Senior Research Associate, IBEI
Associate Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Biography
Oriol Costa is a Senior Associate Researcher at IBEI and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he currently acts as Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs.
His research looks at the interaction between the European Union and international institutions, with a special interest on how the latter shape the ways in which the EU acts in the international arena. He also does research on international environmental politics. He has edited two special issues (European Security, Politics and Governance) and two edited volumes (Palgrave), and has (co)authored several articles at journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, European Security, Cooperation and Conflict, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Politics and Governance, South European Society and Politics, Mediterranean Politics, and others, as well as chapters in edited books (Palgrave, Springer, Policy Press, Routlede, Tecnos).
From 2007 to 2009 he held a Postdoctoral grant (Beatriu de Pinós) to conduct research at the Freie Universität Berlin (Arbeitsstelle Europäische Integration, OSI).
He teaches courses on the contemporary international system, international environmental politics, and IR theory. He is part of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy, a research group based at IBEI.
Background and education
- (2004) PhD Relaciones Internacionales, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Research
Research interests
- International environmental politics
- EU foreign policy
- EU and multilateral institutions
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
- EU Research and Education Network on Europe in the World (EU-RENEW) (Researcher)
- Contested EU Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitics (EUFOG) (Coordinator | Contact person)
- A contested European Union in a fragmenting international order (COURAGE) (Coordinator)
COST Research Project: EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities: Perceptions, Contestation, Communication and Relations (ENTER) (Management committee)
Selected publications
- 2025.Taking Stock on the Role of the EU in a Fragmenting International Order.In:
Costa, Oriol; Soler i Lecha, Eduard; Vlaskamp, Martijn (eds)
.EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order.Palgrave Macmillan,pp: 263–284.Link
- 2025.EU Foreign Policy and the Fragmentation of the International Order: A Framework for Analysis.In:
Costa, Oriol; Soler i Lecha, Eduard; Vlaskamp, Martijn (eds)
.EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order.Palgrave Macmillan,pp: 1–25.Link - 2023.Commerce and Security Meet in the European Union’s Trade Defence Instruments.Politics and Governance,Link
- 2023.Is the EU’s Trade Policy Aligning with America’s Trade Policy?.Journal of World Trade,Volume 57, Issue 2:231 – 252Link
- 2023.A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Journal of European Integration,45:3:431-446Link
- 2021.Contesting the EU’s external democratization agenda: An analytical framework with an application to populist parties.Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2021,(special issue: The rise of populism in Europe and its effect on democracy promotion):1-23
- 2021.Contestation and Politicization of European Foreign and Security Cooperation: New realities or same old routine?.European Security,30(3)Link
- 2019.Une Liaison Transnationale: Exploring the Role of NGOs in EU Foreign Policy-making on the ICC.Comparative European Politics,17 (5):696-713Link
- 2019.The politicization of EU external relations.Journal of European Public Policy,26 (5):790-802Link
- 2013.A force for and because of multilateralism. When is the EU a multilateralist actor in world society?.Journal of European Public Policy,20(8):1213-28Link