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)

Promotor

Fabienne Bossuyt

Fellow

Katsiaryna Lozka

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.