Daniele Marchesi
| Address: | University of Cologne Department for Political Science and European Affairs Gottfried-Keller-Str. 6 50931 Köln (Cologne) |
| E-Mail: | dani_marchesi@hotmail.com |
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Project
EU-UN Coordination in the field of Security and Development in the Mediterranean and Middle East
The objective of research is to flag out and analyse some of the determinants of EU-UN cooperation, by identifying the circumstances and factors that favour or hinder the consistent cooperation of the two organisations. Despite the EU-UN normative alignment, the apparently converging interests and the EU’s commitment to ‘Effective Multilateralism’, the relationship can be quite difficult. Therefore, a key problem is to understand why and under what conditions the EU cooperates with the UN. From a political, institutional and operational perspective one can observe varying degrees cooperation and even conflict. This happens in the field of development as much as in security. However, in these two areas, the different institutional capacity of the EU and the UN, their overlapping competences, mandates and memberships create different challenges for effective coordination. Empirically, European foreign policy in the Mediterranean and Middle East (MENA) area is an interesting case study as it provides a range outcomes of EU-UN coordination within a regional/global context, across the security-development continuum and through “low” and “high” politics.