GREEN Grant Partner
Boston University’s International Relations and Political Science Departments have just become a partner in a multimillion euro project to study the role of the European Union in world. GREEN is a 10 million euro grant from the European Union Commission to study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world. It will consider the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them. Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century rising powers, the increasingly influential non-state actors (from civil and non-civil society) and the new transnational regulatory networks of public and private policy makers and regional agencies. The research will be theoretical and policy-oriented, with an interactive dissemination strategy to assure feedback from its target-publics.
The work will be undertaken by a consortium of partners (from Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Norway) accompanied by leading institutes from the USA, Argentina, Singapore, China, Japan, Australia and South Africa to act as hub-and-spokes for their regions. Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, is heading BU’s involvement in the project.
