Set of criteria for assessing effectiveness of EU foreign, security and defence policy

WP8’s first task is to devise criteria for realistically assessing effectiveness of cooperation in EU foreign, security and defence policy. WP8 will provide WPs4-6 with an analytical grid for assessing a) the impact of internal contestation, regional fragmentation and multipolar competition on a range from 1 to 10; b) the performance of EUFSP, again on a scale from 1 to 10 (WP8 will provide WPs 4-6 with specific guidelines on how to give a numerical value to their qualitative analyses). WP8 will work with a definition of ‘effectiveness’ as the maximum impact in line with EUFSP objectives by means of the maximum degree ofcooperation achievable within the existing governance structures in the context characterised by the three constraining factors.