Est modus in rebus? Advancing European Union foreign policy through mediative practices in multilateral negotiations

画谜中的模式？

• 批准号: 2901828
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2901828
• 关键词: Est; modus; rebus; Advancing; European

Because of the EU's manifold nature, which aggregates national and supranational features, multilateral negotiations represent an inherently paradoxical setting for EU action. Such paradoxical context exemplifies the EU's institutional complexity and layering of institutions and policy-making contexts, which create problems of linkage and coordination during and after processes of negotiation. It therefore contributes to the capability-expectations gap, whereby the EU is eager to take on a more ambitious normative role, but often falls short of such aspirations due to the structural constraints posed by its sui generis negotiation system. This raises the question of whether EU behaviour in multilateral negotiations is a result of its structural weakness or is strategically adopted to achieve its foreign policy objectives. Existing scholarship has only tackled such a question by developing a dichotomous discourse over EU performance linking policy goals and outcomes and not analysing what it actually does in negotiations.The project adopts a mediation-as-foreign-policy approach to understand whether in multilateral negotiations the EU is pushed into a mediative role faute de mieux - because its heterogenous negotiation system poses structural constraints on its foreign policy ambitions - or mediation constitutes a promising foreign policy strategy, i.e. a programmatic approach developed for a specific context that is based on a set of principles, that is coherent with the EU's identity and that can be useful to overcome its structural constraints and push through its foreign policy objectives. This prompts the following problématique: "To what extent is the EU's mediative function integrated within its foreign policy strategy?"Such project is significant as to move beyond the current discourse linking EU policy goals and outputs in multilateral negotiations as a measure of its effectiveness in fulfilling its function and achieving its foreign policy objectives. Rather, it develops a nuanced and innovative analysis of whether the EU's function in negotiation mirrors its identity in its foreign-policy building. It is also innovative in its approach, as it shifts from a limited perspective of mediation as a tool of peace-making to integrate it into a broader framework of strategic EU action within international multilateral negotiations. Methodologically, the study seeks to develop an innovative framework that translates a theoretical conceptualisation of the EU's mediative identity into a practical study of the foreign policy function of the EU's mediative approach in multilateral negotiations by undertaking practice research.The planned result is to achieve a broadened understanding of the EU's strategy to exert its material and normative power by creating initiative into mediation in the paradoxical context of multilateral negotiations. If the mediation lens proves effective, it can lead to the formulation of a framework based on praxis that integrates mediation and negotiation theory with EU foreign policy studies. Such framework can strengthen the nexus between theory and practice, guaranteeing an expansion of theory as well as advancement in practice. Therefore, this analysis will enrich the current literature in the field of EU, mediation, and negotiation studies, but it also provides practical benefits to improve EU diplomacy in the field.

由于欧盟具有多种性质，集合了国家和超国家的特征，多边谈判代表了欧盟行动的内在矛盾环境，这种矛盾背景体现了欧盟的制度复杂性以及制度和政策制定环境的分层，从而产生了联系和协调的问题。因此，它加剧了能力与期望之间的差距，欧盟渴望发挥更雄心勃勃的规范作用，但由于结构性限制而常常达不到这一愿望。这就提出了欧盟在多边谈判中的行为是其结构性弱点的结果还是为了实现其外交政策目标而采取的战略性问题。将政策目标和结果联系起来，而不是分析其在谈判中实际做了什么。该项目采用调解作为外交政策的方法来了解欧盟是否在多边谈判中被迫扮演调解角色 faute de mieux - 因为其异构的谈判体系对其外交政策雄心构成结构性限制 - 或者调解构成了一种有前途的外交政策战略，即基于一套原则、与欧盟的身份和地位相一致、针对特定背景而制定的纲领性方法这有助于克服其结构性限制并推动实现其外交政策目标，这引发了以下问题：“欧盟的调解职能在多大程度上融入了其外交政策战略？”这样的项目意义重大，因为它超越了欧盟的外交政策目标。当前的讨论将欧盟的政策目标和多边谈判的产出联系起来，作为衡量其履行职能和实现外交政策目标的有效性的标准。​​相反，它对欧盟在谈判中的职能是否反映了其外交身份进行了细致入微和创新的分析。 - 政策制定的方法也具有创新性，因为它将调解作为缔造和平的工具的有限视角转变为将其纳入国际多边谈判中更广泛的欧盟战略行动框架中。开发一个创新框架通过实践研究，将欧盟调解身份的理论概念转化为对欧盟调解方式在多边谈判中的外交政策功能的实践研究。计划的结果是对欧盟发挥其物质和规范作用的战略有更广泛的了解如果调解镜头被证明是有效的，它可以导致制定一个基于实践的框架，将调解和谈判理论与欧盟外交政策研究相结合。因此，这一分析将丰富欧盟、调解和谈判研究领域的现有文献，同时也为改进欧盟外交提供实际益处。领域。