The changing character of EUFOR Althea: power politics or learning?

Palm, Trineke

doi:10.1080/09557571.2016.1256947

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“…Hence, Norheim-Martinsen (2013, 145) concludes that Althea is "part of coordinated EU presence in BiH under the chairmanship and direction of the EUSR." However, it took until 2008 before the position of the EUSR was strengthened vis-à-vis the Operation Commander to provide political guidance (Council of the EU 2007a, see also, Klein 2010, Palm 2017. Like in the case of Operation Artemis, we find affirmed "the intention of the Commission to direct, where appropriate, its action towards achieving the objectives of this Joint Action" (Council of the EU 2004b).…”

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Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor

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Crum

2019

European Security

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For long, its lack of military means served to single the European Union out as a "civilian" or "normative power". However, since 2003 twelve EU military operations have been launched. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of all EU military mission so far, this article seeks to establish how these missions have evolved over time and how they have affected the character of the EU as an international actor. For this purpose, the article outlines four ideal-typical conceptions of the EU's international identity and operationalises them along two underlying dimensions: justification (the purpose of military operations) and policy-embeddedness (the coordination between military means and other foreign policy instruments). Analysing the military operations along these two axes, the article suggests that the EU has been evolving towards a "Liberal Power" identity, as is reflected in a shift from value-based to utility-based justifications, while military operations have at the same time become more embedded in the EU's overall foreign policies.

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Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor

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2019

European Security

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“…Learning and ideas are two analytical categories, which scholars frequently use in political analysis (Hall 1993;Palm 2017;Dunlop et al 2018;Vagionaki and Trein 2020 ). According to Braun and Busch, ideas are actors' perceptions of reality; these perceptions might vary between different individuals and groups, which might have opinions that differ from the objective reality.…”

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Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process

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Vagionaki

2021

West European Politics

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and a senior fellow at UC Berkeley. His research interests cover policy coordination and integration, the politics of digital public policy, health policy, and federalism as well as multilevel governance. His research has been published in leading political science and public policy journals as well as with major university presses. More information can be found here: www.philipptrein.com Thenia Vagionaki is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her research focuses on policy learning and EU studies. Her most recent work has been published in Political Studies Review and with Palgrave Macmillan.

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“…Although the contributions (financial or deployed units) of the Euro-Atlanticist coalition to Atalanta are limited (i.e. not signalling a shift away from their institutional preference for NATO), by providing the Operation Commander (Rear Admiral Philip Jones) and Operational Head Quarter in Northwood this coalition kept control (see Table 3; a similar strategy was employed with EUFOR Althea, see Palm, 2017) and reserved for itself an influential position:…”

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Cooperative bargaining in the EU's common security and defence policy: EUNAVFOR Atalanta

Palm

2018

Contemporary Politics

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This article examines the EU's decision-making on military operations to assess the contested nature of the EU as an international security actor. It investigates both the decision-making process on the launch and subsequent development of EUNAVFOR Atalanta, from 2008 to 2014. First, empirically, the article, based on policy documents and semi-structured interviews, unpacks the contestation concerning the use of military force in the EU by distinguishing between the justification of military force and the policy embeddedness of military force at the more operational level. Second, it shows how the strategic interaction among different advocacy coalitions, which is characterized by a process of cooperative bargaining, explains the particular development of EUNAVFOR Atalanta in terms of its justification and policy embeddedness.

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The changing character of EUFOR Althea: power politics or learning?

Cited by 7 publications

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Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor

Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor

Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process

Cooperative bargaining in the EU's common security and defence policy: EUNAVFOR Atalanta

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