In person icon EU Support for Global Governance in a Contested World

Abstract

The European Union is navigating a world marked by increasing complexity and fragmentation as well as contestation and global power shifts in what is frequently conceptualized as the crisis of liberal international order. International cooperation in existing formal intergovernmental organizations (FIGOs) like the UN and the World Trade Organization is exceedingly more difficult. Partly because of this, informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) like the G7, the G20 and the World Economic Forum are becoming important informal arenas where global governance is orchestrated. More actors such as multinational companies, NGOs and civil society organizations increasingly contribute to how global cooperation is organized and implemented. As a prime example of multilateralism itself, the EU has a stated interest in preserving rules-based global order and governance, which is regularly repeated in important policy documents. Yet what pathways does the EU pursue to maintain this interest in a world where there is more contestation, fragmentation and informalization of global governance? How is the advancement of such a rules-based order operationalized, and how are choices made between defending and investing in existing FIGOs or new types of international cooperation? What type of strategies do the EU and its member states use when they pursue their positions across the different institutions and policy areas in global governance? This panel presents the results of two Horizon projects (ENSURED and NAVIGATOR) with papers about a variety of different issues areas and institutions.

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