EUNPACK

The main objective of the EUNPACK project  is to unpack EU crisis response practices  and provide knowledge about the current EU crisis response that will increase our knowledge about how crisis response functions and how it can be improved.

By introducing a bottom up perspective combined with an institutional approach, this project breaks with the dominant scholarship on EU crisis response that only tend to see one side of the equation. Such an approach will enable exploring local agencies and perceptions in target countries without loosing sight of the EU’s institutions and their expectations and ambitions and allows us to analyze the full cycle of dynamic events; from EU’s intentions, motivations and subsequent implementation, to local actors’ perceptions and reactions, and back again to EU intentions and understanding.

Thus, as the project will be attentive to the local level in target countries, the EU level and the connections between these levels, the approach is neither completely bottom up nor top-down. It is designed to use a bottom-up approach in combination with an institutional approach.

The project will examine research questions both at the EU-level and in the field with the ambition to identify some degree of impact and lessons learnt. The partners will examine both how the EU is implementing its approach to crises/conflicts in practice and what are the constraining factors for implementation of a comprehensive approach.

The BCSP is engaged in the Work Package 5, which focuses on micro-level practices of EU foreign policy in Serbia and Kosovo.

The consortium consists of researchers with a special competence on the EU and specialists on peace and conflict studies within different sectors and/or regions, coming from Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), School of Social Science, University of Manchester (UoM), Center for Transnational Studies, Foreign and Security Policy (ATASP), CEPS, Department of Political Science at Comenius University, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Kosovar Center for Security Studies (KCSS), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC), Alliance for Rebuilding Governance in Africa (ARGA), Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) and Middle East Research Institute (MERI).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no.: 693337. The content reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.