Moving from EU-Centrisms: Lessons from the Polycrisis for EU Studies and Global South Regionalism

This open-access article reflects on the responses to global crises in Global South regionalisms and the EU, emphasizing the need for disrupting research agendas, strengthening disciplinary and theoretical diversity accounts in the EU and comparative regionalism studies in general. The article collects trends and challenges highlighted by the literature on EUand regionalism in the Global South from 2008 onwards, aiming to address asmain research question: how EU studies and Global South scholarship developed after multiple global crises to contribute to the organization renewal and the disruption of research agendas? Stemming from the concept of global polycrisis, two relevant and multidimensional crises are analyzed the 2008 global financial crisis and the migration influxes derived from humanitarian crises. By studying both the EU and Global South experiences, we aim to contribute to moving beyond the Eurocentric foundations of regionalism studies, emphasizing that knowledge production needs to be more empirically sensitive to context and social reality