Changing Multilateralism: The EU as a Global-Regional Actor

in Security and Peacewww.eugrasp.eu

Introducing EU-GRASP EU-GRASP is an SSH project emerging from the second call for

proposals (FP7-SSH-2007-1) Rationale

EU-GRASP aims to contribute to the analysis and articulation of the current and future role of the EU as a global actor in multilateral security governance, in a context of challenged multilateralism, where the EU aims at “effective multilateralism”.

Components Conceptual integrated analyses of the evolving concepts of

multilateralism and security, and the role of the EU as a security actor Case-studies of the EU’s approach to a number of security issues A transversal analysis of how cooperation is held in the different security

issues Foresight study: Building scenarios for EU’s future foreign security

policy

EU-GRASP Profile 9 Partners

5 European Partners UNU-CRIS University of Warwick University of Gothenburg Forum on Problems of Peace and War KULeuven

4 Regional Partners Centre for International Governance Innovation Institute for Security Studies Peking University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Budget: €2 million (3 years) Coordinator: UNU-CRIS Starting Month: February 2009

EU-GRASP CoordinatorUNU-CRISwww.cris.unu.edu

Research and training programme of the United Nations, funded by the Flemish Government

Combines policy-driven research with curiosity-driven research

Capacity building Mission: generating knowledge on the place of regions in

multi-level governance and on processes of regional integration

International Advisory BoardConsists of 8 distinguished academics and policy makers:

Louise Fawcett (Oxford University)

Karen Fogg (Directorate General External Relations European Commission)

Nicola Harrington (UNDP, Brussels)

Mark Aspinwall (University of Edinburgh)

Alain Délétroz (International Crisis Group)

Alvaro de Vasconcelos (EUISS, Paris)

Jordi Vaquer i Fanes (CIDOB, Barcelona)

Ole Waever (University of Copenhagen)

EU-GRASP Objective

Strengthen the understanding of: The changing concept of multilateralism The changes within the field of security (concepts and context) The evolving nature of the EU as a Global Actor in security The relationship between external and internal dimensions

Suggest: Future roles to the EU in foreign security policy

Advance Theory Policy-making

EU-GRASP Concepts Multilateralism under Challenge?

Multilevel Security Governance

The EU as a global actor Bilateral Regional Interregional Global

The contemporary agenda of international security Broadening Deepening

Traditional Security Issues Conflict and conflict recovery Terrorism Weapons of Mass destruction

New Security Issues Migration Climate change and energy security Severe human rights abuses

EU-GRASP Case-studies

SecurityIssues

GlobalCooperation

Inter-Regional Cooperation

Regional (European) cooperation

Bilateral cooperation

Traditional Security (WP4 case-studies I)

Regional Conflict

Terrorism

WMD

New Security (WP5 case studies II)

Migration

Energy Security & Climate Change

Human Rights

Cooperation

EU-GRASP Foresight and Scenario Building

Objectives: Bring the research results to the forefront in the

European Agenda Building scenarios for the future Develop further recommendations for EU decision-making

in security governance and “effective multilateralism” Include stakeholders and the wider public in the research

project

Key themes for scenario exercises: Multilateralism in a multipolar system New security issues and linkage of EU policies to address

them The potential of regional integration as a form of MLG in

security