This report explores three potential scenarios for the multilateral system in 2030: reform and cooperation, fragmented governance with EU adaptation, and a collapse of multilateralism, leading to geopolitical fragmentation and EU struggle.

The rules-based international order is under strain, challenging the EU’s long-standing support for the liberal order. Rising geopolitical tensions and institutional deadlock are forcing the EU to reassess its commitment to multilateralism. This shift threatens its ability to shape global governance.

The EU navigates a complex migration governance landscape, balancing formal agreements, ad hoc cooperation, and financial support. This study maps global and regional frameworks, assessing the EU’s role in shaping migration policy amid Member State influence.

This study examines EU engagement in key health institutions and its efforts to consolidate leadership through the EU Global Health Strategy.

Financial governance blends formal and informal institutions, shaping global financial stability and regulation. With green finance rising, aligning financial flows with climate goals is key, particularly in the EU’s regulatory and diplomatic strategies.

This study examines institutional diversification, strategic policy pathways, and the EU’s role in leveraging key frameworks like GDPR and ENISA to enhance international cooperation.

This study maps 55 governance initiatives, highlighting institutional overlaps and the UN’s renewed role, while offering policy recommendations to balance market mechanisms and enhance cooperation.

This study analyzes their institutional development, the EU’s leadership in multilateralism, and opportunities to integrate regional perspectives into global decision-making.

NAVIGATOR’s working paper forms a basis for the work over the next year (February 2024 – February 2025) in WP 3-8.

This paper on NAVIGATOR methodology seeks to achieve a simple objective: to map out the data needs to answer the key questions in the project, to think through what data is useful to compile the ‘nest’, and to consider a range of methodologies to explore within issue areas a well as across them.