The EU and the Emerging Powers

Presentation

According to the 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS), the European Union (EU) is committed to ‘effective multilateralism’ - a central aspect of which is the ability to address security threats that include regional conflicts, climate change, and failed states. Tackling these challenges increasingly requires the cooperation but also the active involvement of the emerging powers. The EU faces an interrelated set of challenges in managing global threats First, the EU must improve its international position vis-à-vis the emerging powers, individually and collectively. Second, it must seek to actively engage them in ‘effective multilateralism’. Third, it must formulate comprehensive policies towards transnational challenges in a multilateral setting. This workshop interlinks questions of the EU’s performance vis-à-vis its strategic partners with its approach to specific challenges: climate change, regional conflicts and failed states, migration, and development. Contributions to this workshop address these challenges from a number of viewpoints: the nature of the challenges, their interconnectedness, but also respective EU, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and Russian approaches to tackling them. By contrasting different national approaches, viewpoints and proposed policy solutions, this workshop aims to generate research questions, establish synergies between researchers, and enable to formation of an expert community on this subject.

Workshop Programme

To view the conference programme, please click on the attachment below. 

Organisation and Sponsors

The EU and the Emerging powers workhsop is organised by Prof. Dr. Eva Gross, Senior Research fellow at the Institute for European Studies (IES) and will be held at the institute's premises. 

This conference is sponsored by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Stockholm, Sweden in the framework of the 'Europe and Global Challenges' Programme.

For more information and registrations, please send an email to eva.gross@vub.ac.be or mark.de.clerck@vub.ac.be.  Thank you.

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