Description
This panel will examine the European Union’s role in influencing debates about the future shape of international order by comparing how the EU and actors in other regions narrate, negotiate, and put into practice ordering processes and systems. Contributors analyse responses across multiple live issues from actors in multiple regions. They explore how actors understand and use configurations of history, memory, and identity, alongside interest-based and transactional logics, when advancing arguments about how order should be organised. They illuminate whether concepts used in EU narrative, such as sustainability or development, have any meaning in other regions where alternative concepts are routinely used. If the EU is to play a central role in the shaping of order in the coming decades, this panel provides explanations of what perspectives and claims actors inside and outside the EU must negotiate and form dialogue around.
