EUPERFORM

EUPERFORM

The project  "Measuring the Performance of the European Union in International Institutions" is research program (2010-2014) financed by The European Science Foundation (ESF) and FSE.

The project analyses the European Union as a global actor. Focus is on EU’s performance in international institutions. The main aims of the research project are the following four points:

  • Increase scientific knowledge about the role of the EU as a global actor.
  • Develop and advance academic understanding on performance as a dependent variable in institutional interaction.
  • Identify key factors influencing the EU’s performance in the selected international institutions.
  • Generate comprehensive and comparative data concerning the EU’s role in international institutions.

The research project is transnational and consists of research contributions from five European universities/research departments, which each analyses the performance of EU in various international institutions. The Danish team is Professor Knud Erik Jørgen and assistant professor Johanne Grøndahl Glavind from Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. Their focus is on the performance of EU in the field of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As a part of this work they have joined the European research network EU Non-proliferation Consortium (read more about the network here).Furthermore, the Danish team is chair of the EUPERFORM project.

EUPERFORM’s first significant research output is a special issue of Journal of European Integration (Vol. 33, no. 6, 2011). The following major publication is going to be Handbook on the European Union in International Institutions: Performance, Policy, Power (Routledge, forthcoming).

Project participants from the Department of Political Science, Aarhus:




*Members of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

 

Partners:

Prof. Ramses A. Wessel (University of Twente), Prof. Sebastian Oberthür og lecturer Jamal Shahin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Dr. Nina Græger, Kristin M. Haugevik og Pernille Rieker (NUPI), Dr. Robert Kissack (IBEI, Barcelona)and lecturer Eugenia Baroncelli (Bologna).