ABOUT EU-GRASP

Changing Multilateralism: the EU as a Global-Regional Actor in Security and Peace, or EU-GRASP in short, is an EU funded FP7 Programme falling under ‘Socio-economic sciences and the humanities’ within the ‘Cooperation’ programme.

EU-GRASP aims to contribute to the analysis and articulation of the current and future role of the EU as a global actor in multilateral security governance, in a context of challenged multilateralism, where the EU aims at “effective multilateralism”. This project therefore examines the notion and practice of multilateralism in order to provide the required theoretical background for assessing the linkages between the EU’s current security activities with multi-polarism, international law, regional integration processes and the United Nations system.

The project will have a duration of 36 month and officially started after the launch event in February 2009.