Dr Giselle Bosse

Assistant Professor

I hold an MA degree form the College of Europe (Natolin) in Warsaw, Poland and a PhD from the University of Aberystwyth, UK. I joined the Politics Department in Maastricht in 2007 and I am Assistant Professor since 2008. My research focuses on EU external relations and in particular the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) towards Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. I am also interested in the role of public opinion on EU foreign policies as well as the EU’s security of energy supply. 


Current Research:

  • EU relations with Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership
  • The Geopolitics of Energy Security in the "Wider Europe"
  • The European Neighbourhood Policy: "Sharing Common Values" with the EU's borderlands?


Other Research interests/expertise:

  • EU External Governance frameworks
  • Human Security and European Foreign Policy 
  • Theories of European Integration, Multi-Level Governance
  • Critical Perspectives on European Civil Society
  • Methods: Action Research; Quantitative & Qualitative Research