EU Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Lobbying, Networks and Framing

Speaker: Benedetta Voltolini, Sciences Po Paris & LSE Middle East Centre Chair: Dr Federica Bicchi, LSE Benedetta Voltolini presents her paper investigating lobbying and framing in EU foreign policy towards the Middle East and North Africa. By relying on social network analysis and the literature on policy entrepreneurship, Benedetta will show how non-state actors are involved in processes of framing and knowledge construction, how frames become collective and under what conditions framing processes take place. EU foreign policy toward the Middle East and North Africa will be used as a case study. Recorded on 9 February 2016.