The European Union S Approach To Conflict Resolution

Author : Laurence Cooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351043465

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The European Union’s Approach to Conflict Resolution by Laurence Cooley Pdf

This book investigates and explains the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation. Drawing on discourse analysis of documents, speeches, and interviews conducted by the author with European Union officials and policy-makers in Brussels and the case-study countries, the book offers a theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and empirically detailed analysis of EU policy preferences, of the ideas that underpin them, and of how those preferences are legitimised. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested in ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, the politics of the Balkans, and the external and foreign policies of the EU.

Author : Nathalie Tocci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134123384

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The EU and Conflict Resolution by Nathalie Tocci Pdf

Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on or just beyond Europe's borders, this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy on conflict resolution. Conflict resolution features strongly as an objective of the European Union's foreign policy. In promoting this aim, the EU's geographical focus has rested primarily in its beleaguered backyard to the south and to the east. Taking a strong comparative approach, Nathalie Tocci explores the principal determinants of conflict dynamics in Cyprus, Turkey, Serbia-Montenegro, Israel-Palestine and Georgia in order to assess the impact of EU contractual ties on them. The volume includes topical analyzis based on first-hand experience, in-depth interviews with all the relevant actors and photography in ongoing conflict areas in the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Caucasus. This revealing study shows that the gap between EU potential and effectiveness often rests in the specific manner in which the EU collectively chooses to conduct its contractual relations. The EU and Conflict Resolution will be of interest to all readers who wish to acquire an excellent understanding of the EU's impact on conflict contexts and will appeal to scholars of European politics, security studies and conflict resolution.

Author : Nikola Tomić,Ben Tonra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000417548

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Conflict Resolution and Global Justice by Nikola Tomić,Ben Tonra Pdf

This book examines how the different normative foundations of conflict resolution held by various global actors, their understandings of justice, and the differences between types of conflict influence the varying means by which conflicts can be prevented, managed, and ultimately resolved. By combining insights from political theory, conflict studies, and European Union (EU) foreign policy studies, the book identifies the EU as the key case of a conflict manager that is both a product and a defender of a global liberal order. It focuses on three aspects of conflict resolution that pose their own sets of both normative and empirical dilemmas: resolving border disputes; strengthening the resilience of weak or divided states and societies after regime change, and intervention in humanitarian crises. Furthermore, it offers a comparative analysis between a potentially distinctive European approach and that of other global actors and reflects critically on situations where policy practice may not always reflect a concern for justice, asking what countervailing forces prevail and why. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in European and EU Studies, Area studies, Conflict Resolution, War Studies, EU Foreign Policy Political Theory, International relations as well as policymakers.

Author : Richard G. Whitman,Stefan Wolff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415528726

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The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager by Richard G. Whitman,Stefan Wolff Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how the EU has performed in facilitating mediation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding across the globe.

Author : Thomas Diez,Nathalie Tocci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319475301

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The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution by Thomas Diez,Nathalie Tocci Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive study into the promotion of regional integration as a central pillar of European Union (EU) relations with the rest of the world. It is a strategy to deal with a core security challenge: the transformation of conflicts and, in particular, regional conflicts. Yet to what extent has the promotion of regional integration been successful in transforming conflicts? What can we regard as the core mechanisms of such an impact? This volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the nexus between promoting integration and conflict transformation. The authors systematically compare the consequences of EU involvement in eight conflicts in four world regions within a common framework. In doing so, they focus on the promotion of integration as a preventative strategy to avoid conflicts turning violent and as a long-term strategy to transform violent conflicts by placing them in a broader institutional context. The book will be of use to students and scholars interested in European foreign policy, comparative regionalism, and conflict resolution.

Author : Boyka Stefanova
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847797858

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The Europeanisation of Conflict Resolutions by Boyka Stefanova Pdf

This book is about the EU’s role in conflict resolution and reconciliation in Europe. Ever since it was implemented as a political project of the post-World War II reality in Western Europe, European integration has been credited with performing conflict resolution functions. It allegedly transformed the long-standing adversarial relationship between France and Germany into a strategic partnership. Conflict in Western Europe became obsolete. The end of the Cold War further reinforced its role as a regional peace project. While these evolutionary dynamics are uncontested, the deeper meaning of the process, its transformative power, is still to be elucidated. How does European integration restore peace when its equilibrium is broken and conflict or the legacies of enmity persist? This book sets out to do exactly that. It explores the peace and conflict-resolution role of European integration by testing its somewhat vague, albeit well-established, macro-political rationale of a peace project in the practical settings of conflicts. The analytical lens of that of Europeanization. The central argument of the book is that the evolution of the policy mix, resources, framing influences and political opportunities through which European integration affects conflicts and processes of conflict resolution demonstrates a historical trend through which the EU has become an indispensable factor of conflict resolution . It begins with the pooling together of policy-making at the European level for the management of particular sectors (early integration in the European Coal and Steel Community) through the functioning of core EU policies (Northern Ireland) to the challenges of enlargement (Cyprus) and the European perspective for the Western Balkans (Kosovo). The book will be of value to academics and non-expert observers alike with an interest in European integration and peace studies.

Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783867939133

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Europe's Coherence Gap in External Crisis and Conflict Management by Bertelsmann Stiftung Pdf

External interventions to mitigate crises or end conflicts have rarely succeeded. The EU and its member states, in particular, have repeatedly run up against their limits in the civil wars in Afghanistan, the Congo, Libya, Syria, the Sahel region and Yemen. However, the EU – if not the entire international community – have learned one lesson from their faltering peacebuilding efforts: If they are to have any chance of making a meaningful and lasting difference, they must develop and use comprehensive strategies that combine and coordinate the various tools available to diplomacy, development cooperation and security. The 29 reports presented in this book – one for each EU member state as well as one on the EU as a whole – examine how steep the learning curve has been and, accordingly, how successful these bodies have been at forming new linkages among the various actors involved in external crisis and conflict management as well as within and between their institutions and organisations. While the EU clearly still has a long way to go before it can live up to its rhetoric and become a distinct and effective actor on the foreign policy stage, small and incremental steps in reorganising institutional practise may help in narrowing the gap between words and deeds. This volume provides examples of how the EU and its member states have found new organisational structures and procedures – specifically at the headquarters level – to better organise the necessary combination and coordination of the many tools available for crisis and conflict management. These ways are then juxtaposed in a 'big picture' chapter, which also identifies best practices for successful WGA implementation.

Author : Nathalie Tocci
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : S. Goda,O. Tytarchuk,M. Khylko
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781614996415

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International Crisis Management: NATO, EU, OSCE and Civil Society by S. Goda,O. Tytarchuk,M. Khylko Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War, numerous conflicts have emerged within the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space which have affected international relations and highlighted the need for effective strategies for conflict resolution and management. This book presents papers delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Conflict Management, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in June 2015. The authors of these texts are recognized authorities within their fields of expertise. Issues raised by the conflict in Ukraine were the main focus of the workshop, as they are of this book, but it also contains valuable information about situations in other countries such as the Republic of Moldova, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Belarus. The book presents an analysis of the theoretical background of conflict management and its relevance for multilateral security institutions. It explores various approaches to conflict management, discusses possible future developments, examines new aspects of conflict resolution and outlines the role of international organizations and civil society in these processes. Providing an overview of current thought in the field, this book will be of interest to all those involved in or connected with the processes of conflict management and resolution.

Author : Bruno Coppieters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Abkhazia (Georgia)
ISBN : OSU:32435078625126

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The EU and Georgia by Bruno Coppieters Pdf

Author : Eva Gross,Ana E. Juncos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136833632

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EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management by Eva Gross,Ana E. Juncos Pdf

Conflict prevention and crisis management has become a key activity for the EU since the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999. The rapid growth of this policy area, as well as the number of missions deployed beyond the EU’s border raise important questions about the nature of the EU’s international role and its contribution to international security. The Contributions to EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management analyze European conflict prevention and crisis management in terms of the EU’s evolving global role, its institutions and its policies. The volume analyzes the EU’s position in relation to the US, the UN and other regional security organizations, and applies three different institutionalist perspectives – historical, rational choice and sociological institutionalism - to explain the increasing institutionalization of EU crisis management. It also critically analyzes the application of EU policies in West Africa, Afghanistan and the Caucasus. Providing a comprehensive analysis of EU crisis management, the volume explores what role EU conflict prevention and crisis management plays in a European and a global context. Offering a comprehensive and original contribution to the literature on EU foreign and security policy, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, international relations and security studies.

Author : Julian Bergmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030255640

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The European Union as International Mediator by Julian Bergmann Pdf

This book explores the EU’s effectiveness as an international mediator and provides a comparative analysis of EU mediation through three case studies: the conflict over Montenegro’s independence, the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, and the Geneva International Discussions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The book starts from the observation that the EU has emerged as an important international provider of mediation in various conflicts around the world. Against this background, the author develops an analytical framework to investigate EU mediation effectiveness that is then applied to the three cases. The main finding of the book is that EU mediation has a stabilising effect on conflict dynamics, making renewed escalation less likely and contributing to the settlement of conflict issues. At the same time, the EU’s effectiveness depends primarily on its ability to influence the conflict parties’ willingness to compromise through conditionality and diplomatic pressure.

Author : Christina J. Schneider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521514811

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Conflict, Negotiation and European Union Enlargement by Christina J. Schneider Pdf

This book argues on EU enlargement looks at how EU members and applicant states negotiate enlargement benefits and costs.

Author : Bruno Coppieters
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9038206488

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Europeanization and Conflict Resolution by Bruno Coppieters Pdf

This volume studies the relevance of European integration for conflict settlement and conflict resolution in divided states such as Cyprus or Serbia and Montenegro.

Author : Violeta Ferati Bakia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666914542

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The European Union as a Mediator in Post-Conflict Western Balkans by Violeta Ferati Bakia Pdf

This book is among the few publications that analyze the determining conditions, outcome effectiveness and impact of EU mediation utilized as an instrument of conflict resolution that aims to solve protracted conflicts in the post-conflict settings of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.