REUNIR

REUNIR explores ways in which the EU can strengthen its external and security tools to enhance the resilience and transformation of (potential) candidate countries in the new era of international relations.

REUNIR’s research approach is based on examining various scenarios of European integration in the coming period. REUNIR adapts the potential effects of so-called “protean power” to a multidisciplinary approach to studying the EU’s “control power” in relations with strategic rivals, thereby empirically assessing foreign threats to the military, socio-economic, and democratic resilience of nine EU candidate countries.

In this way, REUNIR identifies weaknesses and strengths, and maps local perceptions of EU support and political perspectives within the EU on neighborhood relations.