Ileana Daniela Serban
Biographic Data
| ID | 4152210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ileana Daniela Serban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ileana Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Serban |
| SIGNATURE | SERBAN I D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4861-9008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Institutional collaboration and contestation within the European Commission due to geopoliticisation: The case of the Global Gateway
Exploring the European Union external actorness moving from norms to policy practices
The literature discussing the European Union foreign policies and external actorness has comprehensively analysed the EU abilities, successes and challenges when trying to diffuse its norms, policy practices and institutional solutions to other actors around the world. However, we are missing an independent research agenda discussing how EU external actorness evolves because of such interactions. A reinforced EU external actorness agenda should l…
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity
By approaching the question of complexity in international development through governance lenses, this article proposes the use of complexity as an innovative and enabling framework for understanding how policy practices emerge in international development and how their use is consolidated by actors who learn in an adaptive way from their policy environment. To apply this conceptual framework, we discuss the case of Spanish international developm…
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development
The European Union-Japan political and international development dialogue is resurging through the Strategic Partnership Agreement recently agreed between the two actors. The current paper argues that in order for this agreement to deliver on its promises, the EU and Japan need to build on their similarities, but more importantly on their differences and lessons learnt through their distinct international experiences. While common values and norm…
Debating European Union governance in times of crisis
The current article problematises European Union governance arrangements in times of crisis. The debate is built by arguing for a conceptual link between policy learning and indirect governance in the EU. These two frameworks are seen as fundamental theoretical pieces for understanding the EU’s learning journey and the resulting governance mechanisms during and after these major events. Yet, the article shows that none of these two approaches can…
Agency and governance in European Union international development
The European Union’s actorness in international development has been mainly approached from the perspective of EU foreign policy studies, by accounting for the type of power that the EU institutions have aimed to project around the world. Turning this theoretical puzzle upside down and starting from an analysis of indirect governance in EU aid policies, the current article unveils additional instances of EU agency, such as the EU as a policy faci…
From organisational learning and knowledge acquisition to the learning organisation: The case of the European Commission through DG Devco
The current article looks at types of organisational learning and connects them with knowledge acquisition processes and governance arrangements. Conceptually, it contributes by placing organisational learning within the broader context of knowledge production and governance. Moreover, it questions the learning organisation concept by showing that depending on the type of organisational learning, we may witness or not the emergence of learning or…
The European Union: From a Complex Adaptive System to a Policy Interpreter
The current article builds on complexity theory and offers a new perspective on EU actorness in external policies. It does so by looking at the EU as a complex adaptive system and by adding new instances to previous analyses on EU agency. More concretely, the article critically assesses the idea that the EU becomes a policy interpreter when external actors start to interact following new policy practices. This entails examining how external actor…
The European Union as an International Donor: Perceptions from Latin America and the Caribbean
The European Union: From a Complex Adaptive System to a Policy Interpreter
The current article builds on complexity theory and offers a new perspective on EU actorness in external policies. It does so by looking at the EU as a complex adaptive system and by adding new instances to previous analyses on EU agency. More concretely, the article critically assesses the idea that the EU becomes a policy interpreter when external actors start to interact following new policy practices. This entails examining how external actor…
From organisational learning and knowledge acquisition to the learning organisation: The case of the European Commission through DG Devco
The current article looks at types of organisational learning and connects them with knowledge acquisition processes and governance arrangements. Conceptually, it contributes by placing organisational learning within the broader context of knowledge production and governance. Moreover, it questions the learning organisation concept by showing that depending on the type of organisational learning, we may witness or not the emergence of learning or…
The European Union as an International Donor: Perceptions from Latin America and the Caribbean
Debating European Union governance in times of crisis
The current article problematises European Union governance arrangements in times of crisis. The debate is built by arguing for a conceptual link between policy learning and indirect governance in the EU. These two frameworks are seen as fundamental theoretical pieces for understanding the EU’s learning journey and the resulting governance mechanisms during and after these major events. Yet, the article shows that none of these two approaches can…
Agency and governance in European Union international development
The European Union’s actorness in international development has been mainly approached from the perspective of EU foreign policy studies, by accounting for the type of power that the EU institutions have aimed to project around the world. Turning this theoretical puzzle upside down and starting from an analysis of indirect governance in EU aid policies, the current article unveils additional instances of EU agency, such as the EU as a policy faci…
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity
By approaching the question of complexity in international development through governance lenses, this article proposes the use of complexity as an innovative and enabling framework for understanding how policy practices emerge in international development and how their use is consolidated by actors who learn in an adaptive way from their policy environment. To apply this conceptual framework, we discuss the case of Spanish international developm…
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development
The European Union-Japan political and international development dialogue is resurging through the Strategic Partnership Agreement recently agreed between the two actors. The current paper argues that in order for this agreement to deliver on its promises, the EU and Japan need to build on their similarities, but more importantly on their differences and lessons learnt through their distinct international experiences. While common values and norm…
The European Union as an International Donor: Perceptions from Latin America and the Caribbean
Debating European Union governance in times of crisis
The current article problematises European Union governance arrangements in times of crisis. The debate is built by arguing for a conceptual link between policy learning and indirect governance in the EU. These two frameworks are seen as fundamental theoretical pieces for understanding the EU’s learning journey and the resulting governance mechanisms during and after these major events. Yet, the article shows that none of these two approaches can…
Agency and governance in European Union international development
The European Union’s actorness in international development has been mainly approached from the perspective of EU foreign policy studies, by accounting for the type of power that the EU institutions have aimed to project around the world. Turning this theoretical puzzle upside down and starting from an analysis of indirect governance in EU aid policies, the current article unveils additional instances of EU agency, such as the EU as a policy faci…
From organisational learning and knowledge acquisition to the learning organisation: The case of the European Commission through DG Devco
The current article looks at types of organisational learning and connects them with knowledge acquisition processes and governance arrangements. Conceptually, it contributes by placing organisational learning within the broader context of knowledge production and governance. Moreover, it questions the learning organisation concept by showing that depending on the type of organisational learning, we may witness or not the emergence of learning or…
The European Union: From a Complex Adaptive System to a Policy Interpreter
The current article builds on complexity theory and offers a new perspective on EU actorness in external policies. It does so by looking at the EU as a complex adaptive system and by adding new instances to previous analyses on EU agency. More concretely, the article critically assesses the idea that the EU becomes a policy interpreter when external actors start to interact following new policy practices. This entails examining how external actor…
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development
The European Union-Japan political and international development dialogue is resurging through the Strategic Partnership Agreement recently agreed between the two actors. The current paper argues that in order for this agreement to deliver on its promises, the EU and Japan need to build on their similarities, but more importantly on their differences and lessons learnt through their distinct international experiences. While common values and norm…
Exploring the European Union external actorness moving from norms to policy practices
The literature discussing the European Union foreign policies and external actorness has comprehensively analysed the EU abilities, successes and challenges when trying to diffuse its norms, policy practices and institutional solutions to other actors around the world. However, we are missing an independent research agenda discussing how EU external actorness evolves because of such interactions. A reinforced EU external actorness agenda should l…
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity
By approaching the question of complexity in international development through governance lenses, this article proposes the use of complexity as an innovative and enabling framework for understanding how policy practices emerge in international development and how their use is consolidated by actors who learn in an adaptive way from their policy environment. To apply this conceptual framework, we discuss the case of Spanish international developm…
Institutional collaboration and contestation within the European Commission due to geopoliticisation: The case of the Global Gateway
European union (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · International Development and Aid (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · International trade (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)