Making sense of EU comprehensive security towards conceptual and analytical clarity

Gebhard, Carmen; Norheim-Martinsen, Per M.

doi:10.1080/09662839.2011.564613

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“…In December 2003, the member states agreed on the European Security Strategy, which underlined the Union's preference for conflict prevention and its ambition actively to use the 'full spectrum of instruments (…) including political, diplomatic, military and civilian, trade and development activities' (Council of the European Union 2003, p. 11). In the following years, European leaders frequently vaunted the Union's added value in 256 N. Koenig what became known as a comprehensive approach to security and crisis management (Gebhard andNorheim-Martinsen 2011, Zwolski 2012).…”

Section: Bridging Divisions: the Narrative Of Comprehensive Powermentioning

confidence: 98%

Between conflict management and role conflict: the EU in the Libyan crisis

Koenig

2014

European Security

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This paper assesses the role of the European Union in the Libyan crisis (2011) and critically considers the implications for its evolution as an international security actor. Employing role theory, the paper reviews the historical development of the Union's security actorness and sheds specific light on the balance between self-conception and external expectations in the case of the Libyan crisis. Its central argument is that, despite external expectations and European narratives of a 'comprehensive power role', the Libyan crisis showed that the Union still acts in line with its traditional role as a civilian power. The inability to go beyond civilian power stemmed from internal dissonance on a potential hard power role and a corresponding lack of material capabilities. The growing gap between expectations about comprehensive actorness on the one hand and performance on the other is likely to damage the Union's future credibility as an international security actor.

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Section: Bridging Divisions: the Narrative Of Comprehensive Powermentioning

confidence: 98%

Between conflict management and role conflict: the EU in the Libyan crisis

Koenig

2014

European Security

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“…26 Likewise the EU endorses a "comprehensive approach" that aims at integrating political, military, civilian, economic, and developmental aid instruments. 27 The AU is horizontally and vertically integrating different instruments and actors. Horizontally the AU covers the full cycle of security management (at least on paper) in terms of conflict prevention through the APSA and various initiatives addressing the security-development nexus through the New Partnership for Africa's Downloaded by [University of Victoria] at 18:12 18 November 2014 Development (NEPAD) and postconflict peace building concepts.…”

Section: The Emerging Security Complexmentioning

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Introduction: The African Security Regime Complex—Exploring Converging Actors and Policies

Brosig

2013

African Security

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This article formulates the conceptual framework for a special issue on Africa's evolving security architecture. It argues that security governance in Africa can be understood as an emerging regime complex that is characterized by partially converging actors such as the United Nations, European Union, African Union, African Regional Economic Communities, and single lead nations. Center stage is the analysis of converging security policies. We distinguish between five convergence types that vary in terms of depth and efficacy. Theoretically the special issue makes a contribution to theory building on regime complexes and international organizations interplay by developing a theoretical typology. This introductory article primarily serves to introduce concepts and categories.

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“…The Comprehensive Approach to security is the way the EU seeks to operationalise these ideas. 8 It is, however, widely recognised that implementation raises a range of challenges 'at the politico-strategic level, at the level of operational and policy planning and in day-to-day implementation'. 9 In their framework to analyse capabilities, Whitman and Wolff emphasise that capabilities should be understood in their respective contexts (the context-capability nexus).…”

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Coordinating international interventions in complex settings. An analysis of the EU peace and state-building efforts in post-independence Kosovo

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This paper assesses coordination as a salient capability of international interventions in complex settings characterised by weak stakes, the dominance of political elites whose interest in reforms is questionable and multiple local and international stakeholders. It focuses on the challenge of integrating a range of national and international actors and multiple policy domains, assessing this operational capability in terms of a Whole-of-Society approach. Using the example of the EU's intervention in Kosovo through the mechanisms of the EULEX mission, and the EU-facilitated Dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, the paper argues that the EU's impact in Kosovo was weakened by its limited ability to include and engage a broad range of local stakeholders. While a Whole-of-Society approach could address this weakness, the paper also argues that a better understanding of the context-specific opportunities and limitations placed on international organisations like the EU is needed. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Making sense of EU comprehensive security towards conceptual and analytical clarity

Cited by 29 publications

References 50 publications

Between conflict management and role conflict: the EU in the Libyan crisis

Between conflict management and role conflict: the EU in the Libyan crisis

Introduction: The African Security Regime Complex—Exploring Converging Actors and Policies

Coordinating international interventions in complex settings. An analysis of the EU peace and state-building efforts in post-independence Kosovo

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