The European Union and Crisis Management: Policy and Legal Aspects

ISBN-13: 9789067042864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 460 str.

Steven Blockmans

Opis

In the wake of the Balkan wars, the EU has worked hard to close the so-called 'capabilities-expectations gap' in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). With the institution of new political and military structures and procedures, the agreement on principles for consultation and cooperation with other international organizations, the adoption of an acquis securitaire, and the launching of twenty ESDP operations, the EU has affirmed its operational capacity in ESDP. The proliferation of the EU's institutional and operational mechanisms to manage crises on its doorstep and farther afield has led to a whole series of new legal and policy questions, which were addressed at the 37th edition of the T.M.C. Asser Institute's Colloquium on European Law in 2007. The contributions by leading academics and practitioners to the Asser Colloquium have been expanded and updated in the light of the Lisbon Treaty and are now available in this unique compilation."

Spis treści

An Introduction to the Role of the EU in Crisis Management.- An Introduction to the Role of the EU in Crisis Management.- A history foretold.- Foreign Policy and Defence Cooperation in The European Union: Legal Foundations.- European Crisis Management avant La Lettre.- Willing and able?.- The ABC of The European Union Security Strategy: Ambition, Benchmark, Culture.- Peculiarities in The Institutionalisation of CFSP and ESDP.- Assessing The Union’S Military Capabilities: Esdp and The European Crisis of Liberal Internationalism.- The Civilian Headline Goal 2008: Developing Civilian Crisis Management Capabilities for The EU.- Coherence and consistency.- The European Security and Defence Policy and Coherence Challenges in The Council.- Inter-Pillar Coherence in The European Union’s Civilian Crisis Management.- European Parliamentary Oversight of Crisis Management.- Coherence and Consistency of The Eu’S Action in International Crisis Management: The Role of The European Court of Justice.- Effective multilateralism?.- UN-EU Cooperation in Crisis Management: Partnership or Rhetoric?.- The EU-NATO ‘Berlin Plus’ Agreement: the Silent Eye of the Storm.- OSCE Crisis Management and OSCE-EU Relations*.- Interregional Cooperation in Crisis Management: Eu Support for the AU, ASEAN and other Regional Organisations.- EU Agreements with third Countries: Constitutional Reservations by Member States.- Learning by doing.- EU Crisis Management in the Western Balkans.- EU Crisis Management in Africa: progress, problems and prospects.- EU Crisis Management In Asia.- The Nexus Between EU Crisis Management and Counter-Terrorism.- Accountability of EU forces under international law.- Accountability for Violations of Human Rights Law by EU Forces.- Toward a More Mature ESDP: Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law by EU Crisis Management Operations.

O autorze

Steven Blockmans, a former Head of Research at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague, the Netherlands, is a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, Belgium; Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium and a member of the governing board of CLEER.

Blurb

After its failure to bring an end to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the European Union has worked hard to close the infamous ‘capabilities-expectations gap’ in the field of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). In a very short timeframe, the EU agreed to the following: the institution of new political and military bodies; peculiar structures and procedures to ensure political guidance and strategic direction; principles for consultation and cooperation with non-European allies and other international organisations such as the UN and NATO; measures to enhance the Union’s military and civilian capabilities; and the adoption of an acquis sécuritaire, including a European Security Strategy.

The most striking manifestation and raison d’être of the ESDP is the European Union’s capacity to move beyond the paper security structures and back its diplomatic efforts by action on the ground. With the launching of more than twenty ESDP operations in barely five years' time, the EU has affirmed its operational capacity in ESDP. While most of the early ESDP missions were fairly successful, they have also revealed shortfalls, bottlenecks as well as broader issues in crisis management.

In this book, prominent academics and leading practitioners explore this wide variety of policy and legal aspects of ESDP and present the lessons which should be taken to heart now that the EU is facing its ‘maturity test’ as an international crisis manager in high-risk theatres around the world. The book will be an important tool for decision-makers, officials and academics involved in the further development of ESDP. Its contents incorporate the text and potential effects of the Lisbon Treaty and the ECJ’s judgment in the Small and Light Weapons/ECOWAS case.

Dr Steven Blockmans is a Senior Research Fellow in EU law and Deputy Head of Research at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague.

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