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"Global Perspectives on Europe in a Multi-polar World" GR:EEN launch event

21 September 2011, Résidence Palace, rue de la Loi , Brussels, Belgium





GR:EEN -Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks - is a large collaborative project funded under the 7th Framework Research Programme. It has 5 main components: i) conceptual analyses of an emerging multi-polar world and the theory and practice of international organisation and networks in that world; ii) the evolution of EU policy and practice; iii) the effects of regional leadership from Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas on global governance; iv) and policy specific studies on the EU and multi-polarity within the fields of human rights and security, energy, resources and environment, trade and finance. It will also develop a foresight study detailing scenarios for EU policy towards the emerging world order.

GREEN is coordinated by the Centre for Global Governance at the University of Warwick and involves the Free University of Brussels, the University of Amsterdam, the United Nations University in Bruges, the Central European University in Budapest, the Copenhagen Business School and think tanks in Oslo, Madrid and Milan.
The European researchers are teamed up with leading institutes from all points of the compass: Beijing University, Waseda University in Tokyo, Boston University, the Latin American Academy of Social Sciences in Buenos Aires, the Cape Town Business School, the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Western Australia all acting as research hubs for the project in their respective regions.