Paper Titles & Abstracts

Since 2003, two organisational multilateralists, the UN and the EU, have been strengthening their inter-organisational ties to solve conflicts, keep the peace and build governance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. But why do EU and UN decide to cooperate? Which factors stimulate the decision to net-work and which catalyse the deepening of the inter-organisational relationship? Which institutional factors bloc or hinder a common effort? Are there patterns in the UN-EU-relationship that can be identified? Are these of endemic nature or born out of a certain situation? These questions are discussed in the paper. The following structure is chosen: The first step is to lay out a theoretical model which entails the factors stimulating or hindering the decision to cooperate inter-organisationally. The second step is to test the theoretical model via case studies. Four cases were selected to show the patterns of the UN-EU-relationship in the field of peacekeeping: Artemis and MONUC 2003, EUFOR DRC and MONUC 2006 and EUFOR Chad/CAR and MINURCAT 2009/10. In the end, some crucial questions for further discussion remain: Can we speak of inter-organisational governance if the state-level is as powerful as in the peacekeeping-case? Which degree of autonomous organisational governance has to be reached to label it «organisational»? How can we measure it?