The Mobility Partnerships, entangled in the web of cooperation deployed by the EU and its member states in the region, cannot be analysed separately from the other instruments of cooperation.
Aspiring to move away from the previous security-oriented approach to the management of migration, unpopular with the countries of origin, this new political framework aims to equilibrate the relationship with the partner third countries through new instruments of cooperation such as the Mobility Partnership.
To promote active water cooperation, the Blue Peace framework – which defines a structured process to turn water from a source of potential crisis to an instrument of cooperation – is essential.
Under the framework of the Global Approach to Migration, the main instrument of cooperation with third countries is the Mobility Partnership.
transforms the entire border region into an instrument of cooperation, a source of conflict, a national security issue, and an environmental concern.
Consequently, 3-day study visits of detention centres in a member state for a handful of civil servants from the partner country could symbolize the engagement of a signatory member state into this instrument of cooperation.
The Mobility Partnership is, in the case of the Eastern neighbours, the first instrument of cooperation proposed by the EU to deal exclusively with migration and border issues, placing for the first time these questions on their national political agenda.
European diplomacy must become a genuine instrument of cooperation and collective security.
"Social innovations encompass new practices (concepts, policy instruments, new forms of cooperation and organization), methods, processes and regulations that are developed and / or adopted by citizens, customers, politicians, etc. in order to meet social demands and to resolve societal challenges in a better way than existing practices".
The UK should work within the EU to make it an instrument of global cooperation.
Bessa (2009) for instance, argues that the North has currently redefined resettlement of refugees "as an exclusive protection tool and instrument of international cooperation" (p. 91).
