European Security, Strategic Culture, and the Use of Force

Hyde‐Price, Adrian

doi:10.1080/09662830490499993

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“…For a critical take on this notion, see Hyde-Price (2004. On human security in Europe, see Glasius and Kaldor (2006), Kaldor et al (2007), as well as Martin and Owen (2010).…”

Section: European Security 593mentioning

confidence: 98%

Embracing “embedded security”: the OSCE's understated but significant role in the European security architecture

Mosser

2015

European Security

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is perhaps the world's least-known major security organization. However, the same characteristic which puts the OSCE seemingly continually on the verge of irrelevance with respect to the other actors in European and global security is in fact what has allowed it to endure and is in fact its greatest asset. That is, the OSCE's distinct combination of modern and postmodern characteristics in both its composition and its activities allows it to create what can be called "embedded security". Tracing the evolution of one particular set of decision-making rules embedded within a normative framework which questioned the fundamental meanings of "security", and exploring present-day activities, this article reinterprets the OSCE in the light of this new model. In so doing, it re-contextualizes both the OSCE's origins and its contemporary relevance. Instead of a modernist, functional, rule-driven interpretation which situates the OSCE on the periphery in a crowded field, this explanation puts the OSCE at the centre of the postmodern and normative European security architecture.

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“…For a critical take on this notion, see Hyde-Price (2004. On human security in Europe, see Glasius and Kaldor (2006), Kaldor et al (2007), as well as Martin and Owen (2010).…”

Section: European Security 593mentioning

confidence: 98%

Embracing “embedded security”: the OSCE's understated but significant role in the European security architecture

Mosser

2015

European Security

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“…Others are deeply sceptical about the concept of an EU-level strategic culture at all (Haine, 2011;Balossi-Restelli, 2014). While even those who are sympathetic to the concept suggest that we are not there yet, albeit with varying levels of optimism about the future prospects of the EU in this regard (Cornish and Edwards, 2005;Hyde-Price, 2004;Menon, 2009;Norheim-Martinsen, 2011;Sweeney, 2013), others argue for reformulating it so that arguments over whether one is emerging can be resolved as an empirical question of degree rather than a firm 'yes' or 'no' (Schmidt and Zyla, 2011;Biava et al, 2011). Gray (1999, p. 50) feels that: 'Strategic culture should be approached as a shaping context for behaviour and itself as a constituent of that behavior.'…”

Section: The Eu As a Security Actor: Security Identity Or Strategmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk’: Understanding the EU's Security Identity

McDonagh

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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How do European Union security practices constitute the EU as an 'actor' in global politics? Debates about the EU's actorness are as old as the concept of European integration itself. Christopher J. Bickerton has argued that rather than debating the EU's role in global politics from the perspective of 'actorness', research should focus on the functions of EU policy practices and the role they play in defining and creating that 'actorness'. His approach leaves unquestioned the relationship between identity, interests and these practices. This article reorients these discussions towards the literature on security, identity and foreign policy. It argues that security practices are performative, that they play an active role in constructing the 'selves' they claim to protect and the 'others' deemed threatening or as targets for intervention. It proceeds by examining twenty-firstcentury European security practices in order to understand what, if any, security identity the EU is constructing.

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“…1 There is no space for further references still relevant, such as the accounts of strategic culture by Johnston (1995Johnston ( , 1999 and Gray (1999), and other contributions: Rynning (2003) investigated the 'likelihood' that EU member states develop a strategic culture embracing 'common interests and views of the world'. Hyde-Price (2004) warned about the risk that the European strategic culture reproduces old scenarios and inhibits the development of new European security strategies relevant to our time. Matlary (2006) discussed the concept of human security as the possible foundation for a new type of European strategic culture.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Common Security and Defence Policy in a State of Flux? The Case of Libya in 2011

Balossi-Restelli¹

2013

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

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This article focuses on the European Union's reaction to the Libyan crisis in 2011 as a case study. It seeks to demonstrate the limitations of the 'strategic culture approach' in observing and explaining the EU's lack of a common response, which would have involved the development of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), and to demonstrate that the 'domestic level approach' has greater explanatory power. It lays emphasis on France, Britain, Italy and Germany as a sample of the EU/27. The empirical material includes several interviews.

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European Security, Strategic Culture, and the Use of Force

Cited by 34 publications

References 12 publications

Embracing “embedded security”: the OSCE's understated but significant role in the European security architecture

Embracing “embedded security”: the OSCE's understated but significant role in the European security architecture

‘Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk’: Understanding the EU's Security Identity

The Common Security and Defence Policy in a State of Flux? The Case of Libya in 2011

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