The European Union And Peacebuilding

Author : Steven Blockmans,Jan Wouters,Tom Ruys
Publisher : T.M.C. Asser Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9067046914

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The European Union and Peacebuilding by Steven Blockmans,Jan Wouters,Tom Ruys Pdf

With a Foreword by Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Like conflict prevention and crisis management, ‘peacebuilding' forms an integral part of the European Union's external policy efforts to break the cycle of conflict, insecurity and poverty. A concept developed in the context of the United Nations, the EU's Lisbon Treaty mentions ‘post-conflict stabilisation' among the tasks which the EU is set to perform in the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy. The Union's advance in this field has been universally welcomed by peacebuilding actors, especially since the EU's ongoing contributions in financial, technical and logistical terms in post-conflict areas have been couched in an increasing number of European Security and Defence Policy missions. The proliferation of the EU's institutional and operational mechanisms to build peace in post-conflict environments has led to a whole series of new policy and legal questions, which are addressed by leading practitioners and academics in this unique compilation. Specific to this book: • Contributions take into account the final text of the Lisbon Treaty and the lessons learned from more than twenty military and civilian operations • Addresses policy and legal potential and limits, and outlines the parameters for future decision-making and capacity-building • Combines thematic contributions with concrete case studies, and offers insights into how the EU’s peacebuilding tools are implemented in practice

Author : Vladimir Kmec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 1032057289

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EU Missions and Peacebuilding by Vladimir Kmec Pdf

This book analyses the EU's approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts on the EU's role in international conflict management. Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the self-conception of the EU as an actor in international conflict management. EU missions and operations have, for the most part, been deployed to promote peacebuilding efforts in post-conflict situations, in particular through capacity-building, reforms and rebuilding of state structures. This book focuses explicitly on the peacebuilding dimension of the CSDP while exploring why and how the EU has adopted peacebuilding in its CSDP actions as a norm and a practice. It analyses how peacebuilding in EU missions is conceptualised, designed, governed and implemented. The book examines the extent to which EU missions and operations reflect a normative and practical commitment of the EU to peacebuilding - that is to say, the extent to which CSDP instruments have been shaped by international peacebuilding norms and EU foreign policy. Drawing on empirical insights from decision- and policy-making processes in Brussels as well as from missions in Mali and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book offers critical perspectives on the EU's role as an international peacebuilding actor. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, peace and conflict studies, security studies and international relations.

Author : Martina Spernbauer
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004265714

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EU Peacebuilding in Kosovo and Afghanistan by Martina Spernbauer Pdf

In EU Peacebuilding in Kosovo and Afghanistan: Legality and Accountability Martina Spernbauer offers a comprehensive account of the EU's peacebuilding toolbox in light of the Union's constitutional architecture under the Treaty of Lisbon. A detailed analysis of EU peacebuilding in Kosovo and Afghanistan, with a focus on the security and justice sectors, demonstrates that the Union's continuous dichotomy between the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and other Union policies is difficult to maintain for this multi-faceted, comprehensive policy framework, which lies at the interface of security, justice and development. Within this analysis, the central questions of compliance of EU external action with international law and international human rights law in particular under CFSP, as well as accountability towards third countries and their nationals are addressed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:922017785

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European Union Peacebuilding and Policing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Merlingen,Rasa Ostrauskaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134151806

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European Union Peacebuilding and Policing by Michael Merlingen,Rasa Ostrauskaite Pdf

This new volume draws on the work of Michel Foucault to make the case that the EU’s (self-) image as a model peacebuilder conceals ‘another' side of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). It brings together and connects new research on European integration, security, policing and political sociology in an important and original way.

Author : Rok Zupančič,Nina Pejič
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319778242

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Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society by Rok Zupančič,Nina Pejič Pdf

By shedding light on EULEX - the EU mission to Kosovo – this open access book investigates the EU’s peacebuilding activities in that country, in the light of the normative power theory in the post-conflict setting and peacebuilding theory. Ten years after the massive engagement of the EU in the country torn by war, the authors critically assess the effects of the EU projecting its normative power – the enforcement of its standards, ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – through the EULEX mission, taking into consideration also the local aspects, so far neglected in this field of research. Inspecting thoroughly the EULEX activities in the police, customs and judiciary sector, the authors reveal that the mission can contribute to a positive change, but only in those cases which do not request a heavy political involvement and broad leverage by other international players (for example in improving standards of work in police and customs). When it comes to the most serious cases of organized crime, corruption and war crimes, EULEX, however, has not been able to address them effectively due to several internal mission’s deficiencies and external factors; the perceived ineffectiveness of EULEX among the local population led to the lowering of trust not only in this CSDP mission, but also in the EU in general. This open access book offers a comprehensive assessment of the EULEX mission, based on two Horizon2020 research projects: IECEU - Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU Conflict Prevention, and KOSNORTH – The European Union and its Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society: A Case Study of Northern Kosovo (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship). As such it is an invaluable resource for scholars, students and policymakers interested in security questions in South Eastern Europe and EU external action.

Author : Michal Natorski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 3942532352

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The European Union Peacebuilding Approach by Michal Natorski Pdf

Author : Birgit Poopuu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030198909

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The European Union’s Brand of Peacebuilding by Birgit Poopuu Pdf

“Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis of the role of EU’s peace missions I have read so far. It starts with the ‘action for the sake of action’ logic of CSDP development and offers a new interpretation of what CSDP could be, if just peace was part of its political agenda. A rare gem in European studies.”— Xymena Kurowska, Associate Professor of International Relations at Central European University, Hungary “This impressive research monograph provides a critical account of EUs peace missions by asking what these missions offer, how peace is built, and whom these missions serve. To address these important questions, Birgit Poopuu develops and employs an original and sophisticated discursive framework of telling and acting to conduct an in-depth investigation of EU peace missions Artemis in the DRC, EUFOR Althea in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and EULEX in Kosovo. This book’s ground-breaking exploration advances the study of the EU as a peacebuilder.”— Annika Björkdahl, Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, and Editor in Chief of Cooperation and Conflict This book critically explores the European Union’s brand of peacebuilding in the form of its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). A contextually close reading of EU missions – using the fluid categories of telling and acting, stressing the dialogical ways of being, and taking heed of the concept of just peace as a particular guide to building peace – allows the book to tap into the specific meanings the EU has of peace, the ways in which it imagines its relationships with its varied partners, and perhaps most controversially, the way that being/becoming a global actor has been front and center of the CSDP. The analysis focuses on three core missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. One of the recurring themes that emerges from the empirical chapters is the significance attached to acting, and that acting per se constitutes success of a mission, without much thought given to its substance, or the outcome of the EU’s engagement. The imaginative force of this book rests on developing a set of context-sensitive analytical tools, encapsulated in the dialogical model of identity formation and the dynamic approach to analysing identity through telling and acting.

Author : Giada Lagana
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030591175

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The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Giada Lagana Pdf

This book examines the economic and political contributions of the EU to the Northern Ireland peace process, tracing the genesis of EU involvement since 1979 and analysing how it acted as an arena in which to foster dialogue and positive cooperation. Based on extensive archival research and exclusive elite interviews this volume provides the first comprehensive study of how the EU contributed to the reconfiguration of Northern Ireland from a site of conflict to a site of conflict amelioration and peace-building. The book demonstrates that the relationship between Northern Ireland and the EU has been much more significant in the peace process than previously suggested.

Author : Daniela Forero Nuñez
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783961164233

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Colombia and the European Union as key partners for peace by Daniela Forero Nuñez Pdf

Colombia’s long path towards peace was heavily marked by the signing of a peace agreement in 2016 that was supposed to officially put an end to the longest-running conflict in modern Latin America. Nevertheless, even after more than four years since that historic milestone, violence continues to plague the country, endangering the transition towards a real transformation. Although the conflict’s origin is complex and multicausal, some of its root causes, such as socioeconomic inequality, limited political participation and the State’s absence in several regions, remain unsettled. Colombia faces a still tremendous challenge: the implementation of the peace accords – which independently of their actual fulfillment – rely on a broad reconciliation and consensus-seeking process. The European Trust Fund for Colombia (EUTF for Colombia) – established in December 2016 – embodies the EU’s aim to contribute to sustainable development in the long run. This premise builds the essence of the EU Development Policy. The following thesis attempts to examine the EU peacebuilding strategy in Colombia in the aftermath of the conflict. The main question guiding the research is: To what extent has the EUTF for Colombia contributed to the building of a just and sustainable peace in the country during the post-conflict era?

Author : Michal Natorski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396883924

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European Union Peacebuilding Approach: Governance and Practices of the Instrument for Stability by Michal Natorski Pdf

Author : S. Kappler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137307194

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Local Agency and Peacebuilding by S. Kappler Pdf

Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another. The focus on cultural actors reveals the contested nature of local agency and its potential to challenge institutional policies.

Author : Stefano Recchia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
ISBN : OSU:32435078613593

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Beyond International Trusteeship by Stefano Recchia Pdf

The Dayton Peace Agreement on Bosnia successfully ended the war in late 1995. However, the price for peace was an extremely weak and dysfunctional postwar state that would probably not have survived without substantial international support over the following decade. This paper argues that things have begun to visibly change on the ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) only with the emergence of the EU as the main international peacebuilding actor in more recent years, and notably since 2003. The EU's increased peacebuilding role in BiH, carried out within the framework of the European Security Strategy, has allowed for critical progress towards making Bosnia's common state institutions increasingly self-sustaining. There is no doubt that the potential does now exist to turn postwar Bosnia into a sustainable multi-ethnic democracy. The central hypothesis developed in this paper is that since 2003 EU conditionality has increasingly become a viable alternative to international trusteeship in BiH. This is because conditionality has begun to be assertively communicated by the 'double-hatted' High Representative/European Union Special Representative (HR/EUSR) on the ground and is now clearly linked to the perspective of EU membership. There is evidence that difficult political, administrative and economic reforms have been recently adopted by BiH authorities in compliance with EU conditionality, crucially without straightforward international imposition. But this paper also argues that EU peacebuilders need to further improve their strategic effectiveness and political coordination on the ground, to support continuing reform in BiH once the Office of the High Representative (OHR) is closed down, possibly by late 2007.

Author : Nathalie Tocci
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136806629

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The European Union, Civil Society and Conflict by Nathalie Tocci Pdf

Until recently, the European Union tended to view violent mass conflicts predominantly through the lens of negotiations between conflict leaders and powerful external actors. Today, the EU has begun to recognize the imperative of understanding and influencing developments on the ground in conflict situations by engaging with local civil society. The European Union, Civil Society and Conflict explores the EU's relations with civil society organizations at the local level, in an effort to improve the effectiveness and relevance of its conflict and peace strategies. Looking in particular at the eastern and southern neighbourhoods, the volume analyses five case studies of EU and local civil society interaction in: Georgia & Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova & Transnistria, Israel & Palestine and Morocco & Western Sahara. Through the comparative examination of these cases, this volume draws broad policy guidelines tailored to governmental and non-governmental action. Exploring the impact of the European Union in conflicts beyond its borders through its engagement with civil society, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, civil society and conflict.

Author : Vijay Mehta
Publisher : New Internationalist
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780263779

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Peace Beyond Borders (Intl) by Vijay Mehta Pdf

How did the world’s most warlike continent become its most peaceful one? Mehta argues that the process of political integration through the European Union has eliminated the reasons for conflict, and that this same model can be exported to Africa, The Americas, Asia, Australasia, and the Middle East and North Africa region, providing a promising glimpse of world peace.