European Security Policy and Strategic Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138944305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str.

Peter Schmidt; Benjamin Zyla

Opis

With the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture. Specifically, it studies the usefulness of its application in a variety of circumstances, including the EU s operations in Africa and the Balkans as well as joint operations with NATO and the United Nations. The contributors find that strategic culture is a useful tool to explain and understand the EU's civilian and military operations, not in the sense of a cause, but as a European normative framework of preferences and constraints. Accordingly, classical notions of strategic culture in the field of international security must be adapted to highlight the specific character of Europe's strategic culture, especially by taking the interaction with the United Nations and NATO into account. Though at variance over the extent to which security and defence missions have demonstrated or promoted a shared strategic culture in Europe, the authors reveal a growing sense that a cohesive strategic culture is critical in the EU s ambition of being a global actor. Should Europe fail to nurture a shared strategic culture, its actions will be based much more on flexibility than on cohesion. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy."

Spis treści

1. European Security Policy: Strategic Culture in Operation?  Peter Schmidt and Benjamin Zyla  EUROPEAN STRATEGIC CULTURE  2. ‘Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off’? Security Culture as Strategic Culture  David G. Haglund  3. EU Strategic Culture: When the Means Becomes the End  Per M. Norheim-Martinsen  4. Strategic Culture and the Common Security and Defense Policy: A Classical Realist Assessment and Critique  Sten Rynning  TESTING STRATEGIC CULTURE: MILITARY OPERATIONS  5. From Words to Deeds: Strategic Culure and the European Union’s Balkan Military Missions  Charles C. Pentland  6. EU’s Military Involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Security Culture, Interests and Games  Peter Schmidt  7. The Failure of a European Strategic Culture: EUFOR CHAD: The Last of its kind?  Jean Yves Haine  TESTING STRATEGIC CULTURE: CIVILIAN OPERATIONS  8. In Search of aTtrademark: EU Civilian Operations in Africa  Reinhardt Rummel  9. Putting Ideas into Action: EU Civilian Crisis Management in the Western Balkans  Arnold H. Kammel  CONNECTING: THE EU, UN AND NATO  10. Strategic Culture and Multilateralism: The interplay of the EU and the UN in conflict and crisis management  Ingo Peters  11. Overlap or Opposition? EU and NATO’s Strategic (Sub-)Culture  Benjamin Zyla