Steven Blockmans

Dr Steven Blockmans is Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), Associate Senior Research Fellow, and previously Research Director, at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges, Natolin, Tirana), and editor-in-chief of the European Foreign Affairs Review. He is a frequent commentator on EU affairs at major media outlets and regularly briefs senior policy practitioners from the European Union, its member states, and G20 country governments. He is the author of Tough Love: the EU’s relations with the Western Balkans (Springer 2007) and The Obsolescence of the European Neighbourhood Policy (Rowman & Littlefield 2017).