The Observatori researcher Lara Klossek obtained on 17th May her PhD with the thesis titled ‘EU and India Foreign Policy Engagement in H2020 Global Security Governance – Compliance, Localisation and Contestation in Peace Operations’. The thesis explores the different interpretations that India and the EU have concerning peackeeping operations.
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 Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués (IBEI) and Dr. Esther Barbé (UAB-IBEI), researcher and principal investigator of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy group. The jury was formed by Dr. Kenneth McDonagh (DCU), Oriol Costa (UAB), and Dr. Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University).