In mid-July, Professor Susana Sanz Caballero concluded her Fulbright-Schuman postdoctoral stay, focused on comparing the rule of law crisis in the European Union and the United States of America. During the final months of her stay, Professor Sanz participated in the conference The European Union in an Illiberal World and the seminar The European Challenge, where she addressed disinformation and information manipulation as hybrid threats in both regions, and the link between violations of the rule of law and violations of human rights, respectively.
In July, she held meetings with the Department of Political Science at the College of Staten Island with the aim of strengthening ties with the host institution and encouraging its faculty and researchers to apply for Fulbright stays at CEU Cardenal Herrera University. She also delivered a wrap-up session presenting the conclusions of her work during the seven-month stay.
As the first post-grant collaboration initiative, Professors Jane Marcus-Delgado and Susana Sanz will launch a COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) project on hybrid threats, addressed to their Political Science students in the subjects of International Politics and Public International Law, respectively. The activity will be supported by Valeria Belmonti, expert in virtual exchange at CUNY.
During her stay, Professor Sanz also traveled to Washington D.C., where she met with Federico Steinberg, holder of the Prince of Asturias Chair at Georgetown University, who presented the research work being carried out there. They explored potential avenues for joint collaboration, including EU-funded projects in areas of shared interest. Susana Sanz also visited the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and the Capitol.
In the final days of her stay, Susana Sanz met with other European Fulbright grantees to promote the organization of an International Week and to foster Erasmus mobility opportunities involving former Fulbrighters, where they could share research experiences and insights gained. They also discussed the preparation of joint proposals for European research projects.
In her last days in New York, Professor Sanz held institutional meetings with representatives from the Fulbright Commission (including cultural ambassador Leslie Graifman), the Institute of International Education (including Helen Thurston), Fausto de Quadros from the World Bank Arbitration Tribunal based in Washington, as well as with representatives from the Cervantes Institute, the Consulate General of Spain, and the Ambassador of Chile to the United Nations, Paula Narváez.
Finally, during her final month, Professor Sanz published a contribution to the collective volume edited by Gabriela Oanta, The Presence of International Organizations in the Evolution of the Law of the Sea, and an opinion article in the Chilean newspaper Concepción entitled: Spain: An Exemplary Democracy Under the EU’s Scrutiny. The stay also allowed Susana Sanz to complete the final review of the two-volume work Overcoming the Crisis of Democratic Values in the EU, which will soon be published by Tirant publishing house.
