GREEN: Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks

Programme group Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)

This EU funded (FP7) project will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at a better understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe's place in them.

EU-funded, FP7 Large-scale integrating project

Period: 01-03-2011 until 28-2-2015

Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century rising powers, the increasingly influential non-state actors (from both civil and non-civil society) and the new transnational regulatory networks of public and private policy makers and regional agencies.

While multi-polarity, with Europe as a pole, is a possibility alternative scenarios are also plausible. A shift from a trans-Atlantic to trans-Pacific locus of power, or the "depolarization" and fragmentation of authority are such alternatives; both could marginalize Europe's influence. But they are questions to be researched; not assertions to be made.

5 components 

The project will have 5 components:

1. conceptual analyses of an emerging multi-polar world and the theory and practice of international organisation and networks in that world
2. evolving EU policy and practice
3. the effects of regional leadership from Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas
4. projects on the EU and multi-polarity within the fields of human rights and security, energy, resources and environment, trade and finance
5. a foresight study detailing scenarios for EU policy towards the emerging world order.

The research will be theoretical, policy-oriented and with an interactive dissemination strategy to assure feedback from its target-publics.

The work will be undertaken by a manageable consortium of partners (from Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Norway) with a strong track-record of collaboration on these issues accompanied by leading institutes from the USA, Argentina, Singapore, China, Australia, South Africa and Japan to act as hub-and-spokes for their regions.

Published by  AISSR

27 June 2013