1) Situationaly, yes. Maneuvers are attacks, but grapple takes a standard action. So you need greater grapple or a similar effect to use grapple with the standard action fight defensively on a maintain. You'd probably need a grab effect to use it to initiate.
2) Breaking a grapple takes a grapple maneuver. I'm pretty sure your bonuses against grappling apply.
1) Situationaly, yes. Maneuvers are attacks, but grapple takes a standard action. So you need greater grapple or a similar effect to use grapple with the standard action fight defensively on a maintain. You'd probably need a grab effect to use it to initiate.
2) Breaking a grapple takes a grapple maneuver. I'm pretty sure your bonuses against grappling apply.
Modification to the first answer (the second looks good to me):
Fighting Defensively as a Standard Action: You can choose to fight defensively when attacking. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC until the start of your next turn.
Fighting Defensively as a Full-Round Action: You can choose to fight defensively when taking a full-attack action. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC for until the start your next turn.
Combat maneuvers are attack rolls, so you must roll for concealment and take any other penalties that would normally apply to an attack roll.
Comparison of the first two makes it fairly clear that fighting defensively isn't consuming a standard (or full) action in its own right, it is modifying the standard action (or full attack action) you are taking to attack. Grappling is an attack.
I included the third rules quote because I see that the OP applies fighting defensively to his CMD but not to his CMB. The penalty from fighting defensively also applies to CMB.
So if you are an ordinary person who makes a grapple check as a standard action, you can choose to fight defensively, receiving a +2 to AC/CMD and a -4 to attacks (including your combat maneuver rolls).
If you are a Greater Grappler, while fighting defensively you can grapple as a standard action and again as a move action (as allowed by that feat). Both CMB rolls, as well as your AC and CMD would be modified by the fighting defensively adjustments.
"If you are grappled, you can attempt to break the grapple as a standard action by making a combat maneuver check (DC equal to your opponent's CMD; this does not provoke an attack of opportunity) or Escape Artist check (with a DC equal to your opponent's CMD)."
If the bonuses apply to his CMD for purposes of grapple, it would also apply to the DC for the escape artist check.
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"If you are grappled, you can attempt to break the grapple as a standard action by making a combat maneuver check (DC equal to your opponent's CMD; this does not provoke an attack of opportunity) or Escape Artist check (with a DC equal to your opponent's CMD)."
If the bonuses apply to his CMD for purposes of grapple, it would also apply to the DC for the escape artist check.
You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an opponent tries to grapple you.
By RAW I would rule the improved grapple bonus does not apply, because it specifies attempts to grapple you.
RAI, probably was intended to apply.