EUCROSS
The Jean Monnet Network ‘The European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order’ (EUCROSS) investigates the challenges and opportunities that the European Union (‘EU’ or ‘Union’) and its main international partners face in times when our conventional understanding of the global order is put into question and multilateralism is ‘contested’.
EUCROSS aims to bring international and interdisciplinary expertise together and to conduct research on the inter-relationship of the EU and its key international partners with a specific focus on the opportunities and challenges that these partnerships face in the context of an international system that is increasingly seen as being ‘out of order’. EUCROSS investigates the challenges and opportunities that the European Union (‘EU’ or ‘Union’) and its main international partners face in times when our conventional understanding of the global order is put into question and multilateralism is ‘contested’.
EUCROSS aims to bring international and interdisciplinary expertise together and to conduct research on the inter-relationship of the EU and its key international partners with a specific focus on the opportunities and challenges that these partnerships face in the context of an international system that is increasingly seen as being ‘out of order’ (Foreign Affairs 2017).
For these reasons, EUCROSS focuses on two central themes: (i) the EU’s strategic re-orientation in global affairs - including the new emphasis on ‘principled pragmatism’ and ‘resilience’ in its 2016 Global Strategy - and its enduring support for a rules-based and cooperative international order; and (ii) the specific challenges and opportunities for the EU to foster bilateral and multilateral cooperation with its main international partners, i.e. the United States and Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), while duly taking into account the latter’s recent actions and changes in strategic direction. More specifically, EUCROSS will investigate these two themes through the lense of the following five policy areas: trade, sustainable development, migration, counter-terrorism and human rights.
EUCROSS network represents the KU Leuven University (Belgium), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (China), Queen Mary University of London (UK), University of Florida, Gainesville (USA), Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn (Germany), Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund (Sweden), Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow (Poland), O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana (India), Institute of World Economy, Moscow (Russia), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre (Brazil) and the American University, Washington D.C. (USA), the CEFIR from the University of Liège (Belgium).