Program

CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Claire Dunlop, University of Exeter
The Agility and Resilience of Epistemic Communities in International Policy Learning

Jan-Peter Voß and Arno Simons, TU Berlin
Are Instrument Constituencies Epistemic Communities?

THE EUROPEAN POLICY DOMAIN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN EPISTEMES
Jean-Paul Jacqué, University of Strasbourg
EU Lawyers: One or Different Communities

Christian Lahusen and Frank Borchers, University of Siegen
The Contested Field of European Public Affairs at the Crossroads of Law, Politics and Public Relations

EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND EU POLITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Sebastian Büttner, University of Erlangen and Lucia Leopold, University of Bremen
Community-building as a Practice of Professionalization: Networks of EU Affairs Professionals in Germany

Alexander Reinfeldt, University of Hamburg
Epistemic Community? Experts and Expertise in European Political Co-operation (EPC)

Aron Buzogany, FU Berlin
Making European Scrutiny Work. Interparliamentary Networks as Epistemic Communities

EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Christian Henrich-Franke, University of Siegen
Epistemic Communities and the Regulation of International Telecommunications

Frank Schipper, Eindhoven University of Technology
Experts and European Transport Integration

EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES, EDUCATION & RESEARCH IN EUROPE
Ase Gornitzka, Arena, Oslo
Experts in European Knowledge Policies

Robert Kaiser, University of Siegen
Structuring the European Research Area: Epistemic Communities in European Research and Innovation Policies

EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
Lukas Schemper, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Institutionalizing an Epistemic Community: Disaster Studies in the Inter-war Period

Andrea Schneiker, University of Siegen
Private Security Experts and European Security Governance

EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND FINANCE
Carola Westermeier, University of Gießen
Establishing Financial ‘Watchdogs‘. The EU-System of Financial Supervision

Aleksander Miłosz Zieliński, Bern
Central Bankers as Epistemic Community? The Example of the Basel Accords