Jean Monnet Student Lecture by EmergEU

This is a guest lecture organised by the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence on Crises and Emergencies in EU Integration (EmergEU). EmergEU is embedded within the existing interdisciplinary Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM).
In the upcoming three years (2024-2027), EmergEU will explore crises and emergencies in EU integration from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Centre seeks to illuminate the evolving discourse surrounding the multifaceted challenges related to the responses to crises and emergencies that have threatened the EU’s foundations. Recent examples include issues related to the rule of law, the COVID-19 pandemic, energy security, environmental crises, and the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. Addressing such challenges demands responses that may reshape the EU’s institutional structures and policymaking processes.
In its first year (2024-2025), the Centre will address the conceptualisation of crises and emergencies in the EU context from a multidisciplinary (law and political science) and multilevel (supranational and national) perspective.

These lectures will take place physically and online. 

Abstract: This lecture examines the current state of EU–China relations in the context of global ruptures reshaping the international order. It explores how economic interdependence, trade tensions, and technological competition intersect with security concerns and political contestation in an age of transactionalism. The lecture assesses the strategic dilemmas facing the European Union as it seeks to balance cooperation and competition with China in an increasingly fragmented and conflict-prone global environment.

Bio: Dr Tim Rühlig is Senior Analyst for Global China at the European Union Institute for Security Studies. Before joining the EUISS, Tim worked at the European Commission for DG I.D.E.A., the in-house advisor hub of President Ursula von der Leyen, with a focus on China's technology policy. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Tim's research focuses on China's foreign, economic and technology policy, EU-China relations, economic security, German-China policy, and Hong Kong affairs. He is also working on the politicisation of technical standard-setting and China's role as a security actor in the Pacific and beyond.