1st Edition

EU Missions and Peacebuilding Building Peace through the Common Security and Defence Policy

By Vladimir Kmec Copyright 2022
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the European Union’s (EU) approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts the EU’s role in international conflict management. Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the self-conception of the EU as an actor in international conflict management. EU missions and... Read more

1. Introduction: a quest for the EU’s role in (post-)conflict management

2. The EU and the international turn towards peacebuilding

3. CSDP machinery and peacebuilding

4. Deciding on CSDP peacebuilding actions

5. Peacebuilding through CSDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina: membership-building

6. Peacebuilding through CSDP in Mali: the long road to peace

7. Conclusion: towards and beyond peacebuilding in EU missions

Biography

Vladimir Kmec is a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. For his research on peacebuilding and the CSDP, he was awarded the Special Award for European Security and Defence.