Transfer Agreements for Pirates Concluded by the EU—a Case Study on the Human Rights Accountability of the Common Security and Defence Policy

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security

scholarly journals THE EU’S COMMON SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY IN THE CASE OF THE EULEX MISSION IN KOSOVO

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-218
Author(s):  
Bilbil Kastrati ◽  
Samo Uhan
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Expectations Gap ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security

Abstract. The article considers whether the EU’s CSDP missions are a suitable crisis management mechanism for post-conflict situations, along with the EU’s relevance in crisis management at all. For this purpose, the EU’s biggest CSDP civilian mission EULEX was chosen as a research case study. The research results reveal that EULEX has not implemented its mandate, not met the expectations of security consumers, not made any difference on the ground, and cannot be seen as an example the EU should rely on in its future missions. Further, EULEX shows that CSDP missions suffer from many shortfalls and the EU CFSP from a capability–expectations gap. The article concludes that the EULEX mission does not show the EU’s relevance in the crisis management of post-conflict situations.

EU Common Security and Defence Policy and China: a case study of coopetition

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Boris Litwin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
China Policy ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
China’S Foreign Policy ◽  
Cooperation Partner ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security

With the 2019 EU–China Strategic Outlook, the EU has revalidated its dual perspective on China as cooperation partner and strategic competitor at the same time. So far, considerations of China in EU and EU Member States have primarily focused on economic questions. However, as China‘s foreign policy becomes more assertive and visible via military deployments in the EU‘s geopolitical neighbourhood, the EU needs to confront this challenge by giving appropriate and concrete political responses in a geostrategic context as well. Based on the concept of „coopetition“, this article provides an analysis and subsequent recommendations on how the EU can integrate the “China factor” in its Common Security and Defence Policy, while ensuring that a balance of cooperation and competition in EU’s China policy is retained

Human rights in the EU’s common security and defence policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 408-437
Author(s):  
Carmen Márquez Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Security Actor ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security

This chapter examines the European Union’s (EU´s) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and discusses how the EU’s commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and support to democracy and rule of law are included in this foreign policy area. It begins with an analysis of the origins, evolution, and structures of CSDP. It then considers the legal and policy framework on the protection and respect for human rights in CSDP missions and operations, and continues by identifying and discussing the opportunities and challenges at the conceptual, legal, and operational levels, and in the ambit of policy discourse, that the integration of human rights into crises management operations raises. The chapter provides some recommendations to improve the EU approach to human rights issues when establishing and deploying its crisis management missions and operations. It concludes by asserting that if the EU does not live up to its own proclaimed standards of human rights protection, it would not only jeopardise the success of its missions and operations but, it would also weaken its credibility as an international security actor, capable of losing its international legitimacy in the long run.

17. The European Union’s Foreign, Security, and Defence Policies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dover ◽  
Anna Maria Friis Kristensen
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
Lisbon Treaty ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security

This chapter examines the European Union's foreign, security, and defence policies. It begins with a discussion of the intergovernmental Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), established by virtue of the Maastricht Treaty, focusing in particular on the role of the member states and the EU institutions in the development of the policy. The forerunner to the CFSP was the European political cooperation. The chapter then considers the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), created by the Lisbon Treaty, and the gradual militarization of the EU. It concludes with an analysis of the range of military and civilian CSDP missions that the EU has undertaken to date.

19. The European Union’s Foreign, Security, and Defence Policies

2019 ◽  
pp. 281-294
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Friis ◽  
Ana E. Juncos
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
Subsequent Section ◽  
The Common ◽  
Security Actor ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security ◽  
Common Policy

EU cooperation in foreign, security, and defence policy has developed rapidly since the launch of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) in the early 1990s. The first section of this chapter charts the first steps towards a common policy in this area, including the development of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and the gradual militarization of the EU. The chapter then reviews the key theoretical debates on the EU’s role as a foreign and security actor. The subsequent section analyses the main actors involved in the CFSP, focusing in particular on the role of the member states and EU institutions in the development of the policy. The next section of the chapter evaluates the range of military and civilian CSDP operations and missions that the EU has undertaken to date, before examining the key challenges that the EU faces in this area.

scholarly journals EU Defence Cooperation after Brexit: What Role for the UK in the Future EU Defence Arrangements?

European View ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolyon Howorth
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
European Security ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Defence Cooperation ◽  
Cooperative Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Sticking Point ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Common Security

The UK has traditionally played an ambivalent role in European security and defence policymaking. With Brexit, the EU loses one of its two serious military players. On the other hand, it has been liberated from the constraints imposed by London on the Common Security and Defence Policy, and this has created a new dynamism behind the defence project. There has been comparatively little commentary on the defence implications of Brexit, and the UK has been less than forthcoming in making concrete proposals for an ongoing UK-EU partnership. Both sides assert that they wish to maintain a strong cooperative relationship after Brexit, but the outlines of such an arrangement remain very unclear. This article suggests that the UK will have more to lose than the EU from any failure to reach agreement, and that UK ambivalence about links between the Common Security and Defence Policy and NATO will prove to be a major sticking point.

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