Dr. Sjorre Couvreur

Dr. Sjorre Couvreur is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES) and the Royal Military Academy, Belgium. He previously held a doctoral fellowship funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at GIES, where he examined the geoeconomic turn in EU trade policy, culminating in his PhD dissertation "The Trade Turn: The EU’s Arrival in a Geoeconomic World".

He holds a Master’s degree in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe (magna cum laude), a Master’s in International Politics from Ghent University (summa cum laude), and was awarded the Marthe Versichelen award for best master's thesis in political sciences in 2020.

Sjorre's current research explores the European Union’s international economic policies towards the Global South and the alignment strategies of Global South countries in an era of geoeconomic competition. His work also critically examines the implications and desirability of an increasingly geoeconomic European Union, highlighting potential negative externalities for power relations and human development within and beyond the EU, and seeks to amplify marginalized and non-Eurocentric voices and perspectives.

Research interests

• EU trade policy
• Geoeconomics
• EU–Global South economic relations

GIES research areas

• International Political Economy
• Geopolitics and Strategy
• The EU and the World

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