New Diplomacy: The UK and Ireland in a Changing World (NEWDIP)

爱尔兰和英国有着复杂而有争议的历史。近50年来，两国的双边关系被纳入一个更大的欧洲政治和经济一体化项目，该项目为两国关系正常化做出了重大贡献。与此同时，两国政府与北爱尔兰的地方政党和其他行动者共同努力，为商定的治理和建设和平建立持久框架，以解决北爱尔兰的暴力冲突。1998年《耶稣受难日/贝尔法斯特协议》（Good Friday/Belfast Agreement）就创造了这样一个框架。英国退出欧盟将给双边关系带来政治和经济方面的重大变化。它还牵动了精心编织的北爱尔兰宪法解决方案的线索。NEWDIP项目的目标是将早期的职业生涯和成熟的学者以及政策实践者聚集在一起，在英国和爱尔兰走上完全不同的国家旅程时，研究这种双边关系中最关键的外交政策、安全和国防方面。英国脱欧后，爱尔兰和英国将如何确定和推进各自的外交政策和双边合作？NEWDIP项目将着眼于三种相互关联的外交政策、安全和国防关系。-英国和爱尔兰应该如何管理和发展双边外交和防务关系？有哪些共同/独特的安全利益？存在哪些双边合作模式来管理这些利益？-在双边关系之外，英国退出欧盟将如何改变英国和爱尔兰各自的外交、安全和国防政策？新形势下的机遇和制约因素是什么？双边合作如何增加机遇、减少制约因素？-随着欧盟扩大和发展自己的外交、安全和防务政策，这对双边关系有何影响？此外，双边关系将如何影响爱尔兰与其欧盟伙伴的接触，以及英国作为第三国与欧盟的双边关系？我们的研究将积极吸引研究生、学者和从业人员，旨在具有实际用途和应用价值。通过创建这个新的研究网络，我们将努力建立和加强专业关系，为更广泛的政策辩论和对话做出贡献，并建立一个跨学科的研究团队，可以设计，提出并成功执行针对上述研究问题的新颖研究项目。NEWDIP将建立在坚实的基础上。伦敦政治经济学院的欧洲外交政策组（EFPU）是一个研究焦点，主要研究与创建集体欧洲外交政策有关的问题，以及最近英国脱欧对外交事务的影响。UCD研究所英国爱尔兰研究（IBIS）已经产生了研究，并与公共政策参与，学者，政治家，公务员，非政府组织，民间社会团体和公民对不断发展的英国-爱尔兰关系的各个方面的包容性组合。目前，该机构正专注于英国脱欧对英国与爱尔兰关系的挑战。这两个机构具有特定的专业知识，将与各种利益攸关方就当代外交事务和英爱关系的挑战进行公开辩论。虽然网络研讨会将针对学生和公共政策事件的政策制定者，我们提出的研究将从事学术界在爱尔兰和英国，以及政策制定者，从而建立一个广泛的跨学科和多方利益相关者的网络。NEWDIP引发的辩论将作为一项范围界定活动，首先探索然后利用联合研究机会，包括通过欧洲地平线获得的欧盟资金。

Ireland and the UK share a complex and contested history. For nearly 50 years their bilateral relationship was embedded within a larger European project of political and economic integration which contributed substantially to a normalising of relationships. At the same time, the two governments worked together with local political parties and other actors in Northern Ireland to construct a durable framework for agreed governance and peace-building to resolve the violent conflict in Northern Ireland. The 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement created just such a framework. The UK's withdrawal from the EU entails substantial changes to that bilateral relationship in both political and economic aspects. It also pulls at the threads of the carefully woven constitutional settlement in Northern Ireland. The goal of the NEWDIP project is to bring together early career and established scholars, as well as policy practitioners, to look at the most critical foreign policy, security and defence aspects of this bilateral relationship as the UK and Ireland embark on quite different national journeys. How will Ireland and the UK define and pursue their respective national foreign policies, as well as their bilateral cooperation, post-Brexit? The NEWDIP project will look at three inter-related set of foreign policy, security and defence relationships. - How can/should the UK and Ireland manage and develop their bilateral diplomatic and defence relationship? What are the shared/distinct security interests and what modes of bilateral cooperation exist to manage these?- Outside of the bilateral relationship, how does the UK's withdrawal from the European Union change the respective foreign, security and defence policies of the UK and Ireland? What opportunities and constraints present themselves in this new situation and how might bilateral cooperation reinforce opportunities and minimise constraints? - As the European Union expands and develops its own foreign, security and defence policy profile, how does this impact the bilateral relationship? Also, how might the bilateral relationship effect Ireland's engagement with its EU partners and the UK's bilateral relationship with the European Union as a third country? Our research - which will actively engage graduate students, scholars and practitioners - is designed to be of practical use and application. Through the creation of this new research network we will endeavour to build and strengthen professional relationships, contribute to wider policy debates and conversations and to build an interdisciplinary research team which can design, propose and successfully execute novel research projects addressing the research questions above. NEWDIP will be constructed from strong foundations. The European Foreign Policy Unit (EFPU) of LSE acts as a focus for research on issues related to attempts to create a collective European foreign policy and, more recently, to the consequences of Brexit on matters of foreign affairs. The UCD Institute for British Irish Studies (IBIS) has generated research from, and public policy engagement with, an inclusive mix of academics, politicians, public servants, NGOs, civil society groups and citizens on aspects of the evolving British-Irish relationship. It is now focussing on challenges to British-Irish relations stemming from Brexit. These two institutions have a specific expertise that will sustain a public debate with a variety of stakeholders on the challenges of contemporary foreign affairs and British-Irish relations. While webinars will be addressed to students and public policy events to policy makers, our proposed research will engage the academic communities in Ireland and the UK, as well as policy-makers, thus building a broad interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholders' network. The debates generated by NEWDIP will act as a scoping exercise to first explore and then exploit joint research opportunities, including EU funds via Horizon Europe.