Differing member state approaches to the development of the EU Battlegroup Concept: implications for CSDP

Chappell, Laura

doi:10.1080/09662839.2010.498419

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“…Culture or cultures comprises the persisting (though not eternal) socially transmitted ideas, attitudes, traditions, habits of mind, and preferred methods of operation that are more or less specific to a particular geographically based security community that has had a necessarily unique historical experience. (Gray, 1999: p. 51) A strategic culture encompasses the beliefs, attitudes, and norms towards the use of force (Chappell, 2009) and necessitates the reliance or non-reliance on military strength and a desire to engage militarily to protect the national interests or values of a state. Strategic cultures can change, such as postwar Germany and Japan, or they might be seen to symbolize and dictate the very essence of the state, such as North Korea.…”

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Beyond Values and Interests: The Anglo-America Special Relationship during the Syrian Conflict

Gibbins¹,

Rostampour²

2019

OJPS

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This paper attempts to reveal how intervention in international conflicts (re) constructs the Anglo-American Special Relationship (AASR). To do this, this article uses Syria as a case study. Analyzing parliamentary debates, presidential/prime ministerial speeches and formal official addresses, it offers a discursive constructivist analysis of key British and US political spokespeople. We argue that historically embedded values and interests stemming from unity forged by World War Two have taken on new meanings: the AASR being constructed by both normative and strategic cultures. The former, we argue, continues to forge a common alliance between the US and Britain, while the latter produces notable tensions between the two states.

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Beyond Values and Interests: The Anglo-America Special Relationship during the Syrian Conflict

Gibbins¹,

Rostampour²

2019

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“…En su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión, Juncker declaraba que "es el momento de que tengamos un único cuartel para estas operaciones"; una alusión directa a la ausencia de estructuras permanentes de planificación (C2)79. 77 Chappell, Laura (2009) Por su parte, Federica Mogherini ya adelanta en una misiva dirigida a los Ministros de Defensa (14 Septiembre 2016) que en noviembre presentará al Consejo un Plan de Implementación de Seguridad y Defensa. En él, la Alta Representante quiere establecer un nuevo nivel de ambición respaldado con acciones concretas en áreas como el desarrollo de capacidades civiles y militares, profundizar en la cooperación defensiva y readaptar estructuras y herramientas para la conducción de operaciones europeas.…”

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Relanzando la Respuesta Rápida Militar: Los Battlegroups

Girona¹

2016

Revista UNISCI

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UNISCI Resumen:La utilidad de los Battlegroups, casi una década después de declarar capacidad operativa plena, ha estado y continuará estando en duda debido a la inacción europea. Para que la UE se convierta en el actor internacional que durante tantos años ha proclamado, necesitará consolidar su capacidad de respuesta rápida militar para hacer frente a crisis multidimensionales y llevar a cabo todo el espectro de Misiones Petersberg. El artículo hace un repaso a la concepción y el desarrollo de los Battlegroups y propone un conjunto de reformas para que puedan llegar a ser un instrumento efectivo de respuesta rápida militar.Palabras Clave: Battlegoups, Capacidades militares de la UE, Misiones Petersberg, Tratado de Lisboa, Estrategia Global de Seguridad de la UE Title in English: Relaunching Rapid Deployment Forces: The Battlegroups Abstract:The utility of Battlegroups, nearly a decade after declaring their full operational capability, has been and will continue to be questioned due to the European inaction. In order to become a global international actor, as proclaimed for many years, the EU will need to consolidate its capacity of military rapid response capabilities to deal with multidimensional crisis and to carry on all the spectrum of the Petersberg Tasks. This article reviews the concept and development of the Battlegroups and proposes a package of reforms in order to become an effective tool for a military rapid response.

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“…Poland has also contributed to military operations led by the European Union (EU) and to the EU battle group concept, based in part on a desire to achieve similar security benefits from Poland's European partners. However, the Poles mainly rely on the United States and NATO for their security (Chappell 2009). …”

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Historical experiences, strategic culture, and strategic behavior: Poland in the anti-ISIS coalition

Doeser

2018

Defence Studies

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This article contributes to an explanation of why Poland, after a period of almost two years' hesitation, decided to dispatch military forces to the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State in June 2016. The Polish case is examined by applying the concept of strategic culture, taking into account a state's core military strategic beliefs and the historical experiences on which these beliefs are based. The case study shows that strategic culture shaped the Polish decision-making on the coalition, by predisposing the decision-makers toward a typical Polish behavior in international military operations, namely to exchange security benefits with important allies. The article also has implications for the general study of strategic culture, by specifying the relationship between historical experiences and strategic culture. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Differing member state approaches to the development of the EU Battlegroup Concept: implications for CSDP

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Beyond Values and Interests: The Anglo-America Special Relationship during the Syrian Conflict

Beyond Values and Interests: The Anglo-America Special Relationship during the Syrian Conflict

Relanzando la Respuesta Rápida Militar: Los Battlegroups

Historical experiences, strategic culture, and strategic behavior: Poland in the anti-ISIS coalition

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