1st Edition

Theorising the European Union as an International Security Provider

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends beyond the geographical scope of its membership. This is clear from the wide range of military and civilian crisis management missions that the Union has undertaken, but also identifiable through its other policies, such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and development assistance, which have... Read more

1. The EU as an International Security Provider: The Need for a Mid-range Theory
Annemarie Peen Rodt, Richard G. Whitman and Stefan Wolff

2. The European Security Continuum and the EU as an International Security Provider
Alistair J.K Shepherd

3. Analytic Eclecticism and EU Foreign Policy (In)action
Benjamin Pohl and Niels Van Willigen

4. The EU’s Responses to Conflicts in its Wider Neighbourhood: Human or European Security?
Argyro Kartsonaki and Stefan Wolff

5. After Afghanistan: The European Union as Security Provider in Africa
Gorm Rye Olsen

6. The European Union’s "Comprehensive Approach" in Chad: Securitisation and/or Compartmentalisation?
Jan Orbie and Karen Del Biondo

7. Reform or Business as Usual? EU Security Provision in Complex Contexts: Mali
Laura Davis

Biography

Annemarie Peen Rodt is Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark. Her research focuses on EU and Security Provision, and current projects include ‘Improving Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU Conflict Prevention’, and ‘Preventing and Responding to Conflict: Developing EU Civilian Capabilities'. Associate Professor Rodt is author of European Union and Military Conflict Management (Routledge, 2014), and, with Stefan Wolff, ‘Self-determination after Kosovo’, in Europe-Asia Studies.

Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Global Europe Centre, University of Kent. He is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. His current research interests include external relations and foreign, security and defence policies of the European Union, as well its governance and future priorities.

Stefan Wolff is Professor of International Security and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is an expert on international crisis management and post-conflict state-building and has been engaged in conflict settlement negotiations, including in Moldova, Iraq, Sudan and Yemen.