Fulvio Attinà - Multilateral Security and ESDP Operations

FULVIO ATTIN and DANIELA IRRERA
University of Catania, Italy

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Multilateral security and ESDP operations.
1. European Security and Defense Policy. 2. Peacekeeping
forces, European. 3. European Union countries--Foreign
relations. 4. European Union countries--Military policy.
I. Attin, Fulvio. II. Irrera, Daniela.
355'.031'094-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Multilateral security and ESDP operations / [edited] by Fulvio Attin and Daniela Irrera.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0707-2 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-0708-9 (e-book)
1. European Union countries--Military policy. 2. Peace-building--European Union countries. 3. Peacekeeping forces--European Union countries. 4. National security--Europe. I. Attin, Fulvio. II. Irrera, Daniela.

UA646.M775 2010

355'.03354--dc22

2010006868

ISBN 978-1-409-40707-2 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-59627-3 (ebk)

Fulvio Attin is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Catania. Former Chair of the Italian Political Science Association, he is the author of scientific books, chapters, and articles on international politics and European integration. His research interests are in the areas of world institutions and global evolution; multilateralism, peacekeeping, and security cooperation; EU policy-making and institutional dynamics.

Jean F. Crombois is Assistant Professor of European Studies at the American University in Bulgaria. His main fields of research interests include the EUs external relations with a particular interest in the European Neighbourhood Policy and the history of European integration.

Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Catania. She has been Research Assistant at the Stony Brook University, New York; Visiting Fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland; Fulbright Alumni of the Study of the United States Institute on National Security of the US Department of State (University of Delaware, JanuaryFebruary, 2009); Member of the executive committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime. Her research interests deal with global terrorism, transnational organized crime, civil society, and democratization processes.

Kathia Lgar is a PhD candidate in Political Science, Universit Laval in Quebec city, Canada. The title of her PhD dissertation is The Role of Transnational Coalitions in the Transformation of Postconflict Political Order in Lebanon and Bosnia-Hercegovina. She is presently acting as a research assistant for both the Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les conflits identitaires et le terrorisme and the Programme Paix et scurit internationales.

Derek McDougall is a Principal Fellow (Associate Professor) in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on Asia-Pacific international politics and Australian foreign policy, including issues of humanitarian intervention and peacekeeping.

Claudia Morsut currently works as Research Scientist at the International Research Institute of Stavanger, Norway. She obtained her PhD at the University La Sapienza in Rome with a thesis on the relationship between Italy and the United Nations during the Cold War.

Simon Riesche is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP) at the University of Siena, Italy. He holds a Masters degree in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena as well as undergraduate degrees in Political Science and International Relations/European Studies from the University of Mnster, Germany, and the Babe-Bolyai-University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His main research interests are peace and security operations as well as the political transformation processes in South Eastern Europe. Besides his academic career, he has published various articles in German newspapers and magazines. He currently works as a TV journalist.

Maria A. Sabiote is a PhD candidate in International Relations and European Integration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona under supervision of Professor Esther Barbe, and she is Associated Researcher of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy. Her main fields of research are European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), peace operations, and peace research.

This book aims at enlarging knowledge on peace operations by creating bridges among different areas of research in the field. These areas are mostly those of the role of peace missions in the world political system, growth and performance of the European Union/ESDP operations, the new actors in peace and security operations, and the unfolding area of the responsibility to protect. Peace operations are complex courses of action due to many reasons. They involve actors in serious and tense relations; require different capabilities and resources; and cause heavy costs to communities and states. The contributors to this book share with the peace operation research community the appeal of dealing with the intricacies of organizing, improving, and spreading knowledge on this complex topic. They share as well the view that today multilateral intervention is the inescapable duty of the good-will states that believe that serious crises and conflicts make the world an inhospitable place. For this reason, these contributors want to increase the scientific knowledge of peace operations, and contribute to the better understanding of the current change of multilateral security. Each of the contributors acknowledges the tangible support of their academic institution in bringing to fruition their research projects. Comments and suggestions received from colleagues and participants at the conference panels in particular, the World International Studies Committee Conference in Ljubljana and the Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, organized by the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union at the University of Latvia in Riga in which the contributors have discussed their work over the last two years are also recognized.