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Garnet: Garnet News
General GARNET News25 Feb 2009 17:56

MERCURY Project
A new project on 'Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order'
A new project on ‘Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order’ The GARNET Network is proud to announce that one of its partner institutions, Sciences Po – CERI, will participate from March 2009 in a new three-year collaborative research project under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. The new project, entitled ‘MERCURY: Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order’, will be coordinated by the University of Edinburgh and will be under the research directorship of Prof. John Peterson. The EU itself has recognized the importance of multilateralism in, for example, the 2003 European Security Strategy and Lisbon Treaty. It claims actively to promote multilateralism in all of its policies, especially those with an external focus. MERCURY’s primary research questions flow from the EU’s commitment to multilateralism:1.       How should we understand multilateralism, both historically and in contemporary terms?2.       Does the EU live up to its ambitions to contribute to effective multilateralism globally?3.       What lessons can be drawn from Europe’s experience of promoting multilateralism? The nine partners of MERCURY involved in this European and international consortium are: University of Edinburgh (lead, UK), University of Köln (Germany), Charles University (Czech Republic), Institute of International Affairs (Italy), Sciences Po-CERI (France), University of Pretoria (South Africa), Fudan University (China), SIPRI (Sweden) and the University of Cambridge (UK). 

MERCURY is emphatically interdisciplinary, drawing on expertise in law, politics, economics and international relations. It will advance a clear intellectual agenda – to explore, explain, and evaluate different conceptions of multilateralism – but will also seek maximum practical policy relevance.

For more information about this project, please contact the coordinator, Mark Aspinwall (mark.aspinwall@ed.ac.uk).
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