Finally flexing its muscles? Atalanta – The European Union's naval military operation against piracy

Riddervold, Marianne

doi:10.1080/09662839.2011.592979

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“…It does so by focusing on what arguably represents the CSDP's raison d'être, namely the operations conducted in this framework. There has recently been a host of studies looking at particular operations, not least in the pages of this journal (Heiduk 2011, Riddervold 2011, Larivé 2012. The present article, by contrast, will look at such individual cases primarily for the purpose of illustrating a more generic argument about the drivers behind CSDP activism.…”

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The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations

Pohl

2013

European Security

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The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) epitomises the EU's aspirations to be a key actor in global security. The logic underlying the policy, however, remains contentious. In order to elucidate the latter, this article compares the plausibility of different theoretical frameworks. It suggests that liberal IR theory offers considerable explanatory power in this respect, and argues that the decisive forces behind CSDP operations are governmental interests as defined by domestic expectations. European governments' shared interest lies in being perceived to effectively further national interests and domestically held values. Yet, this preoccupation with domestic politics also entails and explains CSDP's often-noted inconsistencies and constraints.

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The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations

Pohl

2013

European Security

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“…Any European foreign policy, worthy of the name, will be determined by the outcome of the politics of European foreign policy, that is, societal groupings cultivating their specific and often contending ideas about means and ends of foreign policy. These groupings comprise political parties, NGOs, media and commercial interests (consider European shipping companies having a direct interest in operation Atlanta (Riddervold, 2011). NGOs working on development issues are illustrative of this dynamic.…”

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The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor

Koops¹,

MacAj

2015

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Please respect intellectual property rightsThis material is copyright and its use is restricted by our standard site license terms and conditions (see http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/connect/info/terms_conditions.html).plan to copy, distribute or share in any format including, for the avoidance of doubt, posti websites, you need the express prior permission of Palgrave Macmillan. To request perm please contact rights@palgrave.com.'This volume provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the EU's growing role as a diplomatic actor, covering policies, processes and outcome in key foreign policy fields. It is one of the first attempts to systematically evaluate the build-up of the EU's diplomatic capacity in the post-Lisbon era and is therefore a must-read for all interested in recent changes of EU diplomatic actorness. I find the volume's ambition to link the changing diplomatic role of the EU to the changing nature of modern diplomacy especially interesting.' -Ole Elgström, Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden 'As one of the most complex and constantly evolving international actors on the planet, the EU poses a major challenge for those interested in understanding its global purpose and political capabilities. Different perspectives and conceptual tools are often necessary to complete the picture, and this volume combines both in a wide-ranging treatment of how the EU behaves as a diplomatic actor. It also draws upon insights from both practitioners and scholars to explain the considerable variance across different EU foreign policy domains despite the best efforts of the EU to make itself more coherent.' -Michael E. Smith, Professor and Chair in International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 'Based on contributions by an excellent international team consisting of both senior and junior academics as well as knowledgeable practitioners, this incisive volume both fills a vacuum and provides the most up to date overview of the growing role of the EU as a diplomatic actor in the post-Lisbon era.' -Walter Carlsnaes, Senior Professor (emeritus), Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden 'This volume underlines that the role of the EU within the emerging multipolar and fragmented world is slowly gaining in importance after the Treaty of Lisbon (2009) -despite external obstacles as well as internal deficits of consistency and coherence. The action of the EU as an unprecedented diplomatic actor and of the EEAS are analysed in an accurate and comprehensive way in the main policy fields of trade, human rights, climate change, and finance, with special attention given to the EU's impact within multilateral organizations and regimes. This panel of contributors offers fresh analyses and contributes to enriching the literature on a crucial issue in EU studies and international relations.' Thanks to consecutive rounds of enlargement and the stepwise broadening and deepening of internal integration, the EU now undeniably plays a key role in international politics, law and economics. At...

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“…2 This surprised many scholars because, for half a century, the conventional wisdom in international relations (IR) held that the "high politics" of security and defence was too sensitive to become a EU policy competence (Hoffmann 1966), and at odds with the Union's "civilian power" self-image (Duchêne 1972). Due to their novelty, CSDP military operations have been studied vigorously in various academic forums, such as this one (Riddervold 2011, Dijkstra 2012b, Pohl 2013a. This article will add to this literature by working towards a multi-level collective action approach on the deployment of CSDP military operations.…”

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Deploying EU military crisis management operations: a collective action perspective

Nováky

2014

European Security

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This article will work towards a multi-level collective action approach for understanding the deployment of Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) military operations. It is multi-level because it uses three levels of analysis: firstly, the international level, where events that create threats to certain values catalyze the process leading to the deployment of an operation; secondly, the national level, where EU governments formulate their national preferences towards prospective deployments based on utility expectations; and thirdly, the EU level, where EU member states negotiate and seek compromises to accommodate their different national preferences. The strength of the model will be demonstrated through empirical case studies on the deployment processes of EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU NAVFOR Atalanta off the coast of Somalia. The article will also provide an overview of the existing theoretical literature on the deployment of CSDP military operations.

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Finally flexing its muscles? Atalanta – The European Union's naval military operation against piracy

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The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations

The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations

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