Prof Richard Caplan appointed UK representative to European research consortium

Professor Richard Caplan has been appointed by the UK Government to serve as the country representative on a European research consortium that will examine new challenges to peacekeeping and the EU`s role in multilateral crisis management.

The consortium aims to stimulate exchanges among researchers as to how, why, when and with whom the EU should envisage common peacekeeping and peace-building missions, and to strengthen the concept of ‘effective multilateralism`, which is at the heart of the EU Security Strategy (ESS) adopted in 2003. The project is funded by the EU-funded COST initiative (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research), one of the longest-running European instruments supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe.

Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations, University Lecturer, Official Fellow, Linacre College.