Ramona Coman

Depuis 2019:

Coordinatrice académique des programmes de Master:

Cours dispensés de 2009 à 2018: 

Coordinatrice académique des programmes de Master:

Projets d'enseignement et de recherche

Projets d'enseignement: 

Projets de recherche:  

2018-2020: Conflicts of sovereignty in a European Union in Crisis (SovEU). Promoters ULB: Nathalie Brack, Ramona Coman, Amandine Crespy Partner: Christopher Bickerton (Cambridge University) Associated researcher: Julia Rone

Conflicts around sovereignty form the core of political and academic debates and lay narratives on European integration. More integration at the EU level is associated with a transfer of sovereignty from nation states to supranational institutions. Resistance to ‘ever closer union’ is taken as evidence of a reassertion of national sovereignty. This project is premised upon the original hypothesis that the existential crisis faced by the EU over last decade is not a product of a conflict between national sovereignty and supranational institutions but rather the result of conflicts at the national level between different conceptions of national sovereignty, specifically the struggle between popular and parliamentary visions of national sovereignty. This project will empirically test this hypothesis using three paradigmatic cases: judicial reforms in Poland regarding the rule of law, ratification of the EU Canada Comprehensive Trade Agreement (CETA) in Belgium and the UK’s decision to leave the EU (Brexit).

2015-2018: "European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times:the role of European Networks" (ENLIGHTEN - H2020), coordonné par Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School)

ENLIGHTEN responds to the first part of the EURO-4 call on “The future of European integration - 'More Europe – less Europe?'” by bringing together an interdisciplinary ‘next generation’ research team that integrates insights from Comparative Political Economy, European Studies, International Political Economy, and Sociology. ENLIGHTEN answers the call by focusing on how European modes of governance respond to ‘fast-burning’ and ‘slow-burning’ crises. These types of crises differ in how they affect the legitimacy of European input, output, and throughput processes in established and emergent modes of governance. In fast-burning crises interests are quickly formed and ideational and resource battles ensue over how to coordinate policy ideas, what institutions should be engaged, and communicating these changes to the public. Networks in fast crises are composed of defined groups seeking to protect or carve out their interests. In slow-burning crises interests are less obvious and the key task is often how to define the issues involved and who should address the problem. Here networks are commonly composed of experts who battle over how issues should be defined, as well as the boundaries on how coordinative and communicative discourses are articulated. Both fast- and slow-burning crises must be addressed by European modes of governance, with serious implications for the legitimacy and efficiency of the European project. Both raise political, social, and economic sensitivities that are transforming democratic politics in Europe. ENLIGHTEN addresses these themes through a series of linked cases that speak directly to the legitimacy and efficiency of European modes of governance. 

"Governing values, governing through values, governed by values? The European Union as a risk polity" (ValEUR), action de recherche concertée (F. Foret, porte-parole; Ramona Coman; François Heinderyckx), étudie la régulation des enjeux normatifs dans les politiques européennes internes et externes. 

2009-2013: Menu for Justice. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial Studies.