Between knowledge and power: epistemic communities and the emergence of security sector reform in the EU security architecture

2017 ◽  
pp. 33-56
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Eu

Crime, Cults, and Informal Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 651-663
Author(s):  
Kemi Okenyodo
Keyword(s):  
Security Architecture ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Informal Groups

This chapter looks at the evolution of informal security actors in Nigeria, their scope of operations, and how they seem to be changing the face of the security architecture in the country. Key changes include: the expanding space of operations in view of new insecurity challenges and ineffective responses to the security needs of the people by the formal security actors; a syncretic relationship between the formal and the informal security actors within the country’s security framework; and the political implications of informal groups for security sector reform, decentralization, and other possible ways forward. The chapter takes a critical look at informal policing actors in the different parts of the country (specifically at their mode of recruitment, funding sources, mode of operations, and gender representation), and the opportunities that exist for them going forward in the national security architecture.

Security sector reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A case study of the Europeanization of the Western Balkans

Südosteuropa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Kudlenko
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
European Security ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Domestic Environments ◽  
Two Sectors ◽  
The Eu

AbstractSecurity sector reform (SSR) has become an important part of the EU’s efforts to transform the Western Balkans from a conflict-ridden area into a stable and democratic part of Europe. This paper studies SSR in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as an illustration of the multifaceted and complex Europeanization policies employed by the EU in the region. It does not present a study of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) missions, as there is already a wealth of material available on this subject, but offers instead a broader examination of changes in two sectors of BiH’s security system with the aim of improving understanding of the EU’s impact on the domestic environments of candidate states. Its main argument is that the EU used police and intelligence reforms in Bosnia, both of which were part and parcel of the SSR efforts in the country, as state-building tools. But because domestic competence in Bosnia was lacking and the EU was rather inexperienced in implementing SSR, the reforms have had a mixed record of success and reveal the limitations of the region’s Europeanization.

scholarly journals Local ownership, inclusivity and civil-military synergy in EU external action: The case of EU support to security sector reforms in Mali

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-130
Author(s):  
Gabriëlla Vogelaar
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
External Action ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Eu

The evolution of the European Union (EU) as a security and peacebuilding actor raises questions as to its identity as a largely civilian power alongside the development of its military capabilities. Specifically, a key challenge lies in how its civilian and military capabilities relate to each other as they develop, with increasing expectations from the EU to act effectively across its peacebuilding and conflict prevention interventions. The EU aims to do more to link top-down and bottom-up approaches, but there is currently a lack of focus on the latter. In exploring the challenges and opportunities for the EU to enhance its potential for civil-military synergies in crisis management, the paper takes a holistic whole-of-society perspective, asking questions about the level of inclusivity and local ownership in its approaches. The paper takes a closer look at the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) and European Union Capacity Building Mission in Mali (EUCAP Sahel Mali) as a specific case. Based on the findings, this paper argues the EU could be more effective, especially at the operational level, by taking a more bottom-up approach in the areas of designing, planning, monitoring and evaluating interventions. The EU will need to find ways to better embed its interventions in local realities, for instance by working with local civil society in the EU's security sector reform efforts, and offering platforms for more civilian oversight and feedback mechanisms. Only then, with a stronger focus on the inclusivity and local ownership aspects of civil and military action of the EU, will it be able to better address the 'intangible aspects' of security sector reform.

Accountability in EU Security and Defence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Moser
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Eu

This book offers the first comprehensive legal analysis and empirical study of accountability concerning the EU’s peacebuilding endeavours—also referred to as civilian crisis management. Since 2003, the EU has launched more than twenty civilian missions under the CSDP in conflict-torn regions in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkan, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia with the aim of restoring stability and security. Mission mandates cover a broad range of multidimensional tasks, such as border monitoring, rule of law support, police training, law enforcement capacity building, and security sector reform. In light of these numbers and tasks and given (recent) alarming insights from practice, it begs the question who is accountable (to whom) for the EU’s manifold extraterritorial peacebuilding activities. With a view to answering this question, this book combines tools of legal scholarship with insights from political science research, both in analytical and conceptual terms. The thorough analysis of the law and practice of political, legal, and administrative accountability in civilian CSDP leads to the following conclusion: when scrutinizing the institutional and procedural framework set out by law, the accountability assessment is sobering, but when approaching it from a practice angle, the verdict is promising—in particular as regards accountability at the EU level.

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