Multilateralism & the EU in the Contemporary Global Order

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MERCURY is a consortium of academic partners formed to examine critically the European Union's contribution to multilateralism. It explores multilateralism as a concept, an aspiration, and a form of international order. MERCURY is funded through the EU's Framework 7 programme, with a total budget of €1.963 million. It includes nine institutional partners in Europe and beyond and will run for three years from February 2009.

 

For more information on MERCURY, visit the consortium home page www.mercury-fp7.net

  • To read MERCURY's mission statement click here.
  • MERCURY project structure here.

 

MERCURY Output

MERCURY findings will be published as articles in peer-reviewed journals, as e-papers and as policy briefs. Click here or see www.mercury-fp7.net for the list of papers.

Glossary of important terms related to multilateralism (see website)


MERCURY Newsletter is published twice yearly.

  • Read MERCURY Newsletter Issue 1, July 2009, here. 
  • Read MERCURY Newsletter Issue 2, December 2009, here.
  • Read MERCURY Newsletter Issue 3, June 2010, here.
  • Read MERCURY Newsletter Issue 4, December 2010 here.
    • Read MERCURY Newsletter Issue 5, June 2011 here.

     

    To receive the newsletter, please contact Theresa Höghammar.

    MERCURY events include stakeholder conferences and MERCURY lectures.

     

    MERCURY's project partners are:

    University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Cologne (Germany), Charles University (Czech Republic), Istituto Affari Internazionali -IAI- (Italy), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), University of Pretoria (South Africa), Fudan University (China), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sweden), University of Cambridge (UK).

     

    SIPRI Staff Involved

    Gunilla Herolf 








    Dr. Gunilla Herolf     is MERCURY project manager at SIPRI. Within the network, she leads Work Package V, Dissemination, and contributes to Work Package II, Towards a New Architecture of EU External Relations?

    Contact: herolf@sipri.org  Tel. +46 8 655 97 62

    Theresa Höghammar

    Theresa Höghammar     is MERCURY nformation manager. 

    Contact: hoghammar@sipri.org  Tel. +46 8 655 97 56

     

    EU-27 Watch, No. 9 is released!

    The EU-27 Watch, No. 9 gives an overview on current national debates on European policy in the 27 EU member states and the four candidate countries. Topics discussed are implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy, the financial crisis and economic policy, and climate and energy policy. See also www.eu-27Watch.org.

    New MERCURY publications
    In January 2011, MERCURY issued a revised version of E-paper no. 1, “Conceptualising Multilateralism: Can We All Just Get Along?" Authors are Caroline Bouchard and John Peterson. To read the paper, please click here.
    MERCURY Newsletter June Edition

    MERCURY Newsletter June edition is out! Click here to read it.

    Commission President Barroso meets MERCURY

    On 19 June 2010 Commission President Barroso participated in a seminar at EUI in Florence on "What Should the EU Agenda for Global Governance Be?". MERCURY was represented by Prof. Christopher Hill and Prof. Wolfgang Wessels. For more information, please see here.