1st Edition

A Human Security Doctrine for Europe Project, Principles, Practicalities

Edited By Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor Copyright 2006
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

A Human Security Doctrine for Europe  explores the actual needs of individual people in conflict areas, rather than using a conventional institutional or geo-political perspectives. This new volume proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human security capability that involves the military, the police and civilians all working together to enforce law rather than... Read more

Preface

Contributors

List of Abbrevations

List of Maps and Tables

Part I: Introduction

A Human Security Vision for Europe and Beyond

Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor

The Challenges to Re-Establishing A Public Monopoly of Violence

Herbert Wulf

Part II: A Bottom-up Approach: Five Regional Studies

Old and New Insecurity in the Balkans: Lessons from the EU’s

Intervention in Macedonia

Denisa Kostovicova

The Great Lakes Region: Security Vacuum and European Legacy

Victoria Brittain and Augusta Conchiglia

Sierra Leone’s War in a Regional Context: Lessons from Interventions

David Keen

Human Security in the South Caucasus

Mient-Jan Faber and Mary Kaldor

Middle East Security: A View from Israel, Palestine and Iraq

Yahia Said

Part III: A Framework for Operations

An International Law Framework with respect to International Peace and Security

Christine Chinkin

Women as Agents of Change in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

Sonja Licht

Culture and Capabilities of the New EU Members

Pavel Seifter

Principles for the Use of the Military in Support of Law-Enforcement Operations: Implementing the European Security Strategy

Andrew Salmon and Mary Kaldor

Part IV: Capabilities, Resources and Institutions

What Colour Is Your Elephant? The Military Aspect of European Security

Christopher Ankersen

Civilian Tasks and Capabilities in EU operations

Renata Dwan

Equipment, Resources , and Inter-operability

Geneviève Schméder

Embedding a Bottom-Up Approach to European Security

Stefanie Flechtner

Annex

A Human Security Doctrine for Europe

The Barcelona Report of the Study Group on Europe’s Security Capabilities

Biography

Marlies Glasius is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mary Kaldor is Director of the same centre and Professor of Global Governance. She is the author of New and Old Wars (1999), The Imaginary War (1990) and numerous other studies on global security. The editors are the coordinator and the convenor of the Study Group on Europe’s Security Capabilities.