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Research interests
EU trade policy and economic statecraft | Geopolitical competition and the international political economy | Comparative analysis of EU and US responses to China’s technological rise | Export controls, industrial policy, and investment screening | European integration and the EU’s political system | EU and US foreign policies in a shifting global order
Profile
Jayanthi Pandiyan is a Research Associate at the Chair in Comparative Politics at Trier University. Her research focuses on EU trade policy, economic statecraft, and the geopolitical dynamics shaping the international political economy, with particular emphasis on EU and US strategies. She is affiliated with the Jean Monnet Chair EU Trade Policy and the Rise of Geopolitics (Prof. Dr. Joachim Schild) and contributes to its research and public engagement activities.
Her doctoral dissertation examines how the EU and the United States use trade instruments—such as export controls, investment screening, and industrial policy—as tools of economic statecraft in response to China’s technological rise. She holds a master’s degree in European and East Asian Governance (EEAG) from Trier University, where her thesis focused on the promotion of labour standards through EU Free Trade Agreements. She previously studied in India, earning a bachelor’s degree in political science, a master’s in international studies, and an M. Phil in International Relations.
Publications
Pandiyan, J. & Schild, J. (2025). A Geopolitical Turnabout? EU and US Dual-Use Export Controls Towards China. European Foreign Affairs Review, 30(2), 179–198.
Pandiyan, J. (2024). In neuen Gewässern navigieren: Die Indopazifik-Strategie der EU. In: Minas, M. & Drewes, O. (Eds.), Politikwissenschaftlicher Jahresrückblick 2024, Trier: Trier University, pp. 18–21.
Pandiyan, J. (2024). Die BRICS-Gemeinschaft und ihre zunehmende Relevanz im internationalen Machtgefüge. In: Minas, M. & Drewes, O. (Eds.), Politikwissenschaftlicher Jahresrückblick 2023, Trier: Trier University, pp. 34–36.
Outreach Activities
Contributed to the EU–China Summer School 2024, organised by the Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE).
Delivered lectures on “History of the EU institutions and EU policymaking today” and “EU as an external actor”.
Workshops and Conferences
ECPR Methods School, 2025 – Case Study Research: Methods and Practice
12th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, 19 – 21 June, Lisbon, 2024: Paper presented (with Joachim Schild): A Geopolitical Turnabout? Comparing the EU and the US Approaches to Competition and Risk Mitigation in High-Tech Relations with China.
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Lüneburg, 2024: Panel: The Geopolitics of European Integration. Paper presented (with Joachim Schild): A Geopolitical Turnabout? Comparing the EU and the US Approaches to Competition and Risk Mitigation in High-Tech Relations with China.
17th Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), 2022: Trading Values? Promoting Labour Standards Through EU Free Trade Agreements.
Courses Taught
The Political System of the EU (B.A. Seminar, SoSe 2025)
The Rise of Geopolitics and the Foreign Policies of the EU and the US (B.A. Seminar, WiSe 2024/25)
EU in International Politics (B.A. Seminar, SoSe 2024) (with Prof. Dr. Joachim Schild)
European Politics and Governance (M.A., Seminar, WiSe 2023/24) (with Prof. Dr. Joachim Schild)
Memberships
Center for European Studies, Trier University
ECPR Standing Group on the European Union
ECPR Research Network on US Foreign Policy
