EU Missions and Peacebuilding: Building Peace through the Common Security and Defence Policy [Paperback]

1. Introduction: a quest for the EUs role in (post-)conflict management  2. The EU and the international turn towards peacebuilding  3. CSDP machinery and peacebuilding  4. Deciding on CSDP peacebuilding actions  5. Peacebuilding through CSDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina: membership-building  6. Peacebuilding through CSDP in Mali: the long road to peace  7. Conclusion: towards and beyond peacebuilding in EU missions

This book analyses the EUs approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts on the EUs role in international conflict management.

Vladimir Kmec is a Research Associate at the Von H?gel Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. For his research on peacebuilding and the CSDP, he was awarded the Special Award for European Security and Defence.

This book analyses the European Unions (EU) approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts the EUs role in international conflict management.

Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the self-conception of the EU as an actor in international conflict management. EU missions and operations have, for the most part, been deployed to promote peacebuilding efforts in post-conflict situations, in particular through capacity-building, reforms and rebuilding of state structures. This book focuses explicitly on the peacebuilding dimension of the CSDP while exploring why and how the EU has adopted peacebuilding in its CSDP actions as a norm and a practice. It analyses how peacebuilding in EU missions is conceptualised, designed, governed and implemented. The book examines the extent to which EU missions and operations reflect a normative and practical commitmentlƒk