Andrea Christou
Job Title
PhD Student
Research interests
Research interests
European foreign and security policy; discourse analysis; discursive institutionalism; public opinion; communicative action; deliberative democracy; trade policy; frames
Background
RESEARCH PROJECT
My research examined the influence of citizen discourse on the decision-making of EU foreign policy in different types of democracies. Through a discursive institutionalist perspective, it analysed how discourse occurs and matters differently in the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Ireland and what legitimating effect this may have on citizens' perceptions of the EU's democratic legitimacy.
SUPERVISORS
QUALIFICATIONS
2019-2020 Master of Philosophy in International Relations and Politics at the University of Cambridge
2016-2019 Bachelor of Arts in History and Minor in Political Science at the University of South Florida, Summa Cum Laude
- Green & Gold Scholar Scholarship
- Honors College Member
ROLES
SEP 2021-Present Tutor, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
- Comparative Politics in a Globalised World
- International Political Economy
JAN 2022-Present Co-convenor of the Europa Postgraduate Research Group, a postgraduate forum for European affairs. We provide a space for researchers, in particular PhD students and Early Career Researchers, to present their work in European studies, to receive feedback and to exchange ideas in a friendly and constructive environment.
JAN 2022-DEC 2023 Research Assistant to Professor Chad Damro for the Horizon-2020 project ENGAGE.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
19-20 OCT 2023 Presented the policy brief 'Coordinating External Action Beyond Crisis' at the ENGAGE General Assembly in Barcelona, Spain.
26 MAY 2023 Presented PhD case study at the '10th Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus' at LSE.
3-5 MAY 2023 Presented 'External Action Plus: Case Studies on Trade, Development and Humanitarian Aid' at European Union in International Affairs conference.
27-28 APR 2023 Presented case study at the Europa Institute workshop 'New Perspectives on Europe in the World'
15-18 MAR 2023 Presented paper at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
16-17 JAN 2023 Jean Monnet Network-VISTA Conference Workshop, Maastricht University, Brussels Campus. Presented paper for JCMS Special Issue on ‘The Geo-Economic Turn of the European Single Market’
9 SEP 2022 ENGAGE Workshop, Sabançi University, Istanbul. Presented WP6 research for deliverable 2 and next steps
23-24 JUN 2022 Presented PhD research at the UACES Graduate Forum Research Conference
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
Christou, Andrea and Chad Damro. 2024. ‘Frames and Issue Linkage: EU Trade Policy in the Geoeconomic Turn’. Journal of Common Market Studies 62(4): 1080-96
Christou, Andrea, Chad Damro, Anna Fonts Picas, Mateu Tomi and Marie Vandendriessche (2023), ‘Coordinating External Action Beyond Crisis’, ENGAGE Policy Brief Series, Brief No. 3
Christou, Andrea, Chad Damro, Marie Vandendriessche, Anna Fonts Picas and Mateu Tomi. 2023. ‘Assessing the Current Structures and Processes of External Action Plus and Formulating Recommendations’, ENGAGE Working Paper No. 24
Vandendriessche, Marie, Andrea Christou, Chad Damro, Anna Fonts Picas and Mateu Tomi. 2023. ‘Case Studies of Traditionally Internal Policy Areas with Outward Effects: Competition, Climate Change and Health’, ENGAGE Working Paper No. 21
Christou, Andrea Chad Damro, Vladislava Gubalova, Meltem Muftuler-Bac, Nihat Mugurtay and Lucia Rybnikárová. 2022. ‘External Action Plus: Case Studies on Trade, Development and Humanitarian Action’, ENGAGE Working Paper No. 17
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Blog Posts
- Christou, Andrea, and Chad Damro. 2024. ‘Frames and Issue Linkage: EU Trade Policy in the Geoeconomic Turn’. Ideas on Europe (JCMS Blog). https://jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/05/20/frames-and-issue-linkage-eu-trade-policy-in-the-geoeconomic-turn/.
- Carnegie Europe ‘Judy Asks: Is Defense a Priority Across Europe?’ reply (FEB 2024)
- Carnegie Europe ‘Judy Asks: Is Europe Taking Resilience Seriously?’ reply (OCT 2022)
- Carnegie Europe ‘Judy Asks: Is Europe Serious about Defense?’ reply (JUN 2022)
- Carnegie Europe ‘Judy Asks: Is Finnish and Swedish NATO Membership Useful for European Security? Reply (APR 2022)
Podcasts
- Article ‘Frames and Issue Linkage: EU Trade Policy in the Geoeconomic Turn’ (with Chad Damro) featured in The External, an EU-Renew Podcast, Episode 13