The United Nations and The European Union: A Multifaceted, Differentiated Partnership

This study focuses on international institutions and their impact in world politics. It presents an analysis of the EU-UN cooperation in Security and crisis management. Applying a neoliberal view of institutionalized cooperation between the two international organizations I am trying to understand how they work together. Many years after its creation the United Nations has been leading many interventions in different zones of the world; enhance peace, and foster local development. Facing many difficulties concerning crisis management the United Nations finds another way to make its operations more effective by working with regional agencies that are also very active and important concerning crisis management into their zones. The European Union as an intergovernmental organization is emerging actor in peacekeeping and peace-building and has been an active partner of the United Nations. The partnership has been differentiated and further developed in different zones. This study tries to understand how the EU and UN cooperate. What have been their participations in the field of peacekeeping, peace-building and human rights? Keywords: European Union, United Nations, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, Neoliberal Institutionalism, Human Rights.