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NFG Research Group "Asian Perceptions of the EU"
NFG Research Group 'Asian Perceptions of the EU'
"External views on the EU as a Civilian Power –India and China in Comparison"
The perceptions that Asian elites have from the European Union (EU) deviate significantly from the perception that European decision-makers and scholars on EU foreign policy assign to the EU's role in global politics. With a special focus on India and the PR China, the interdisciplinary NFG Research Group "Asian Perceptions of the EU" aims to identify, analyse and assess factors and causes that affect the differences in perception of the EU (as the "sender") and Asian foreign-policy elites (as the targeted "recipients"). A recurrent topic of EU foreign policy research is the question if and to what extent the EU is a civilian power. Yet, which political, cultural or historical factors have influenced the perceptions of decision-makers in Asia’s emerging powers of the EU as a civilian power? To what extent have European norms and ideas been accepted, rejected or adapted?
The NFG Research Group 'Asian Perceptions of the EU' aims therefore at the gap between the self-perception of the EU as a security actor and the perceptions of the targeted "recipients" in Asia, particularly in India and China. Based on new approaches within the research field of diffusion and transfer in social science and the humanities, the NFG Research Group analyses these factors in an interdisciplinary working group. Case studies will encompass the EU's role in export control regimes and dual-use technology transfers as well as in international peacekeeping operations.
The NFG is supplemented through its own Visiting Research Fellow program for scholars from the region ("Fellows in Residence"; calls for applications in early 2011), research stays at partner universities in New Delhi and Beijing for NFG members, and continuous exchange via a web-based knowledge management platform (a “Networked Think Tank”).
Advised by an international advisory council and principal mentor Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, the NFG is closely integrated in the Freie Universität Berlin’s extensive international research network including the College Research Group (KFG) "The Transformative Power of Europe", the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS) and the Center for Area Studies as well as with the work of the University of Canterbury (NZ) on Asia’s perceptions of the EU.
The NFG Research Group "Asian Perceptions of the EU" is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within its initiative "External Views of Europe (Europa von Außen gesehen)".
The Research Project Proposal for the NFG Research Group can be found here (PDF) (in German)". A press release issued by the FU Berlin can be found here (in German).
Contact:
Head of NFG Research Group
Ihnestr. 26 — Room 209
14195 Berlin
Tel.: +49-(0)30-838 57088
E-Mail: may-britt.stumbaum@fu-berlin.de
