8. Security

The EU has a wide repertoire of tools to engage with global, regional as well as ad hoc security mechanisms. For this ask, NUPI and WIT will map these engagements, ranging from diplomacy, support of the UN, and deployment of EU missions to financial support from the European Peace Facility to regional and sub-regional organizations as well as ad hoc coalitions. Together with the other partners in this task, NUPI and Wits will examine how the EU’s approach to global security and crisis response is evolving, exploring the implementation of the Strategic Compass and the investments made in in the CSDP toolbox, such as in the Military Planning and Conduct Capability, the continued emphasis on partnerships with established institutions such as NATO, UN and AU, and its growing recognition of the value of ad hoc coalitions in addition to CSDP missions and operations. This will result in a data upload to the dataset. We will also draw on European and global surveys to map perceptions of European influence on global security arrangements vis-à-vis key powers such as China, Russia and the US, asking how the EU is able to wield influence in its key neighbourhoods in the East and South. TalTech will contribute on the EU’s use of SWIFT during the Ukraine conflict. The task will result in a working paper presented at the Council for European Studies annual conference, and the final version will be submitted as an academic article to European Security.