Project

EU conflict mediation in its wider neighbourhood: mapping and explaining the EU’s incoherent involvement in peace-making

Code
3F016721
Duration
01 November 2021 → 31 October 2025
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Comparative politics
    • Diplomacy
    • European union politics
    • International politics
    • Security, peace and conflict
Keywords
European Union mediation conflicts Eastern Partnership Southern neighbourhood
 
Project description

The proposed research will address the puzzling observation that EU involvement in conflict mediation in its wider neighbourhood is highly inconsistent, whereby it engages in the mediation of some conflicts but not in others. Using a combination of Qualitative Comparative Analysis and process-tracing, it will map the different forms of EU engagement and examine the causal conditions explaining this variation.