Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NAVIGATOR (The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation)
Période du rapport: 2023-03-01 au 2024-02-29
How should the EU navigate the increasingly complex - and conflict-laden - institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order? As threats of nationalism and anti-EU populism are rising, the EU is searching for ways to navigate the increasingly complex institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order. The EU needs to identify which institutions to strengthen, which to reform and which to bypass when revitalising multilateralism.
NAVIGATOR’s main objective is to answer these questions and deliver a ready-to-use “search mechanism” and associated pathways of action that the EU and its member states can use as it seeks to strengthen a rules-based international order. The search mechanism will allow EU Member States to compare strengths and weaknesses of existing multilateral organisations, determine the reformable ones, identify and assess alternatives, and develop action strategies to reform multilateralism. The project will explore institutional variation on climate change, digitalisation, finance/tax, health, migration and security policy issues to identify institutional recommendations enabling optimal policy impact.
NAVIGATOR has identified six pathways to impact:
The first pathway (I) involves evidence-based recommendations targeting EU and Member States policymakers. It is rooted in the project’s empirical findings and a two-way dialogue on the EU’s contribution to global governance efforts. It offers policymakers a specific set of exploitable research-based insights.
The second pathway (II) is geared towards the foreign policy knowledge quads in non-EU partner countries equally involved in efforts to reform and buttress the international rules-based system. The goal is to explain the reality of the EU to third parties and better articulate possible areas of convergence on global governance initiatives.
The third pathway (III) engages with European private sector leaders involved in international rule-making and the provision of global public goods through public-private arrangements. The resulting stakeholder engagement will produce a sustainable web of intersectoral relationships that will help both increasing the transparency of such private actor involvement, while also assessing its relative legitimacy.
The fourth pathway (IV) targets the global scientific community and builds on the project’s conceptual and empirical findings. It is expected to produce significant innovations to be communicated on a global scale with the highest impact within the interdisciplinary Global Governance and EU studies communities.
The fifth pathway (V) involves graduate and PhD students, which the project hopes to reach by way of its freely available communication materials and a joint handbook.
A last sixth pathway (VI) will ensure the projects educational and socio-economic impact as it seeks to leverage the consortium’s resources and insights to contribute towards the training of a new generation of European professionals equipped to act effectively across the different global governance platforms studied. With educational materials (e.g. an edited handbook), transferable skills and inter-sectoral contacts at the highest level, the project will feed into the training provided at the partner institutions and support emerging scholars and professionals.
NAVIGATOR’s main objective is to answer these questions and deliver a ready-to-use “search mechanism” and associated pathways of action that the EU and its member states can use as it seeks to strengthen a rules-based international order. The search mechanism will allow EU Member States to compare strengths and weaknesses of existing multilateral organisations, determine the reformable ones, identify and assess alternatives, and develop action strategies to reform multilateralism. The project will explore institutional variation on climate change, digitalisation, finance/tax, health, migration and security policy issues to identify institutional recommendations enabling optimal policy impact.
NAVIGATOR has identified six pathways to impact:
The first pathway (I) involves evidence-based recommendations targeting EU and Member States policymakers. It is rooted in the project’s empirical findings and a two-way dialogue on the EU’s contribution to global governance efforts. It offers policymakers a specific set of exploitable research-based insights.
The second pathway (II) is geared towards the foreign policy knowledge quads in non-EU partner countries equally involved in efforts to reform and buttress the international rules-based system. The goal is to explain the reality of the EU to third parties and better articulate possible areas of convergence on global governance initiatives.
The third pathway (III) engages with European private sector leaders involved in international rule-making and the provision of global public goods through public-private arrangements. The resulting stakeholder engagement will produce a sustainable web of intersectoral relationships that will help both increasing the transparency of such private actor involvement, while also assessing its relative legitimacy.
The fourth pathway (IV) targets the global scientific community and builds on the project’s conceptual and empirical findings. It is expected to produce significant innovations to be communicated on a global scale with the highest impact within the interdisciplinary Global Governance and EU studies communities.
The fifth pathway (V) involves graduate and PhD students, which the project hopes to reach by way of its freely available communication materials and a joint handbook.
A last sixth pathway (VI) will ensure the projects educational and socio-economic impact as it seeks to leverage the consortium’s resources and insights to contribute towards the training of a new generation of European professionals equipped to act effectively across the different global governance platforms studied. With educational materials (e.g. an edited handbook), transferable skills and inter-sectoral contacts at the highest level, the project will feed into the training provided at the partner institutions and support emerging scholars and professionals.
During the first year, we have further refined the conceptual approach of the NAVIGATOR project. The WP leaders have been gathered in Copenhagen to discuss and contribute to the development of the methodology, culminating with the delivery of a Working paper on the NAVIGATOR methodology at the end of November 2024. The methodological approach was further refined in the Working paper on global governance in transition, delivered at the end of February 2024. These papers lay the foundation for the empirical work that started in WP3-8 in March 2024.
As this reporting only covers the first year, there is nothing to report.