Annemarie Peen Rodt - The European Union and Military Conflict Management: Defining, Evaluating and Achieving Success

This book provides the first comprehensive review of the European Unions role in military conflict management worldwide. As such it makes an important contribution to contemporary debates concerning the EUs global role, not least in international security.

Over the past decade the EU has launched five military operations within the framework of its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) with the explicit purpose of helping to manage violent conflicts beyond its borders. This book argues that an appropriate framework for understanding the Unions achievements in this regard does not yet exist. It therefore develops a definition and a set of criteria for success in military conflict management. It subsequently applies these in a comparative case study of the military operations undertaken by the EU in Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad and the Central African Republic. Having evaluated their success individually as well as comparatively the book goes on to explore the conditions under which military conflict management operations conducted by international organizations like the EU can be successful. In conclusion it discusses the implications of its findings for the future theory and practice of military conflict management.

The European Union and Military Conflict Management will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of European Union foreign, security and defence policy as well as global governance, conflict management and international security provision.

Annemarie Peen Rodt is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark.

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The European Union and Military Conflict Management
Defining, evaluating and achieving success
Annemarie Peen Rodt

Defining, evaluating and achieving success

Annemarie Peen Rodt

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Peen Rodt, Annemarie.
The European Union and military conflict management : defining,
evaluating and achieving success / Annemarie Peen Rodt.

pages cm. -- (Security and governance)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Security, International--European Union countries. 2. Common Security
and Defence Policy. 3. European Union countries--Military policy. 4.
European Union countries--Defenses. I. Title.

JZ6009.E94P44 2014
355.03354--dc23

2013027800

ISBN: 978-0-415-71478-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-84886-0 (ebk)

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This journey started on a hot summer day almost a decade ago. I was in Srebrenica. Ten years had passed since some 8,000 men and boys lost their lives in a three-day massacre in this small town in Eastern Bosnia. It was quiet, when I was there. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. It is a beautiful place. And yetthere I wassurrounded by graves, many of which had just recently been filled, as bodies were finally identified. Ten years on the remains of mass graves were still being excavated in the Balkans. Civilians throughout the region had suffered tremendously and many families were still searching for answers to what happened to their lost loved ones. The birth dates on the gravestones revealed just how many of the men killed on those devastating days in July 1995 were the same age as my fathermany too were as young or even younger than my little brother. I had lived and worked in Sarajevo for some time and knew the difficult histories of the region well, but it was not until that moment that I understood what it really means when the international community fails to manage a violent conflict. That realization led me to embark on the work, which would eventually become this book. Once I started researching violent conflict and (lack of appropriate) international response to it, I found that tragedies such as the ones in the Balkans have been and still are replicated over and over againin the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sudan, the Central African Republic. The list goes on and again and again international efforts to stop the killing seem to fail. The failures of international conflict management have been scrutinised for decades, but it seems to me that we often focus on the wrong question. It is important but not enough to examine what went wrong in the past. We have to figure out what it would take to get it right in the future. That is the question, which this book hopes to raise and sets out to answer.