Benedetta Voltolini presents her paper investigating lobbying and framing in EU foreign policy towards the Middle East and North Africa. While a variety of actors, including non-state actors, participate in the formulation of EU foreign policy, little is known about the emergence and codification of new frames informing EU foreign policy. Frames are defined as ways of interpreting information, beliefs about cause-effect relationships and 'know-how'.
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.
Event Details
Speakers: Dr Benedetta Voltolini, Sciences Po Paris & LSE Middle East Centre
Chair: Dr Federica Bicchi, LSE
Date: Tuesday 9 February 2016
Time: 17.15-18.45
Event Hashtag: #LSEVoltolini
Location: Room 9.04, Tower 2, Clement's Inn, LSE
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Speaker
Dr Benedetta Voltolini is Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Marie SkŁodowska-Curie Fellow at Sciences Po Paris.