The Observatori researcher Jordi Mas obtained this late October his PhD with the thesis titled ‘The role of trade partners’ cohesiveness in the conclusion of interregional agreements with the European Union’. The thesis explores the most important factors helping cohesiveness to explain the likelihood of concluding an agreement with the EU.
The thesis was developed under the framework of the Politics, Policies and International Relations PhD programme of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and was directed by Esther Barbé (UAB-IBEI) and Patricia Garcia-Duran (UB), principal investigator of the EU-NormCon project and the Observatory of European Foreign Policy group. The jury was formed by José Antonio Sanahuja (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Oriol Costa (UAB), and María García (University of Bath).