Copying in EU security and defence policies: the case of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia

Boșilcă, Ruxandra-Laura; Stenberg, Matthew; Riddervold, Marianne

doi:10.1080/09662839.2020.1845657

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“…In a nutshell, the CMP concept relies on enhanced coordination of EU countries’ national naval assets to ensure a more permanent and more visible European maritime presence in the MAI. It is therefore a tool for information exchange between the participating EU countries and for enhancing complementarities and synergies between their national naval assets (Bosilca and Riddervold 2021).…”

Section: The Cmp Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Coordinated Maritime Presences concept and the EU’s naval ambitions in the Indo-Pacific

Nováky¹

2022

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Since the launch of the first-ever EU naval operation in 2008, the ongoing Operation Atalanta off the Horn of Africa, EU naval forces have operated primarily in Europe’s vicinity or in regions in which great-power tensions have been low. Yet, the Union has also begun to seek a naval role for itself in more sensitive regions, namely the Indo-Pacific, via the new Coordinated Maritime Presences concept. This article analyses the EU’s plans to play a more visible naval role in the Indo-Pacific, and argues that the extension of this concept to the region would raise the EU’s level of ambition as a naval actor. However, the EU’s ability to be a meaningful maritime security provider in the Indo-Pacific depends on the EU countries coming closer to seeing eye-to-eye on how the Union should approach China, and on their willingness to send vessels to the Indo-Pacific.

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Section: The Cmp Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%