Julia Langbein

Head of research cluster
Centre for East European and International Studies

E-mail: Julia.Langbein@zois-berlin.de
Phone: +49 (30) 2005949-41

Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
Mohrenstr. 60
10117 Berlin

De:link//Re:link Project:

China, the EU and economic development in Easter Europe and Eurasia

Julia Langbein

Research Interests

  • // Economic integration and development in Eastern Europe
  • // Regime (in)stability in the post-Soviet space
  • // European economic integration (special foci on EU enlargement and the Eastern Partnership)
  • // China’s economic engagement in Eastern Europe

Vita

Julia Langbein leads the research cluster Political Economy and Integration at ZOiS. In her research, she deals with the integration of (semi-) peripheral economies into transnational markets and value chains and the consequences for their economic and political development. Her regional focus lies on Eastern Europe and European economic integration, while also taking into account the role of China’s economic engagement. She holds a degree in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin and a master’s in Russian Studies from the European University Institute in St. Petersburg. After receiving her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Langbein was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (Research Group) ‘The Transformative Power of Europe’ and scientific coordinator of two EU-funded collaborative research projects at the Centre for European Integration at the Freie Universität Berlin. She also held visiting fellowships at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, the International Centre for Policy Studies in Kyiv, and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Selected Publications

  • // 2015. Transnationalization and regulatory change in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood. Ukraine between Brussels and Moscow, London: Routledge
  • // 2022. 'Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters', with Félix Krawatzek. Post-Soviet Affairs (online first).
  • // 2021. 'Trade liberalisation and opening in post-soviet limited access orders', with Ildar Gazizullin and Dmytro Naumenko. East European Politics, vol. 37, no. 1: pp. 139-158.
  • // 2020. 'Market integration and room for development in the peripheries', with László Bruszt. Special Issue 27 (5), Review of International Political Economy.
  • // 2020. 'Varieties of Limited Access Orders: The nexus between politics and economics in hybrid regimes', with Esther Ademmer and Tanja A. Börzel. Governance, vol. 33, no. 1: pp. 191-208.
  • // 2019. 'Shallow market integration and weak developmental capacities: Ukraine’s pathway from periphery to periphery'. Review of International Political Economy, vol. 27, no. 5: pp. 1126-1146.
  • // 2019. 'Core-periphery disparities in Europe: Is there a link between political and economic divergence?', with Tanja A. Börzel. West European Politics, vol. 42, no. 5: pp. 941-964.
  • // 2017. 'Varieties of Dis-embedded Liberalism. EU Integration Strategies in the Eastern Peripheries of Europe', with L. Bruszt. Journal of European Public Policy vol. 24, no. 2: pp. 297-315.
  • // 2022. 'Western sanctions need to hurt the Putin regime at its core', SCRIPTS Blog Series “Perspectives on the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian State”, No. 5, March 1, 2022.
  • // 2022. ‚Ambivalent Effects of Trade Liberalisation with the EU: Insights from Moldova and Georgia‘, ZOiS Report 01/2022, Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin.
  • // 2020. 'Economic cooperation between the EU and the associated countries: Making the most of development opportunities under the DCFTA'. LibMod Policy Paper, August 2020, Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Berlin.