The EU's Approach to Conflict Analysis in Integrated Conflict Interventions [Hardcover]

This book aims to critically examine the European Unions peacebuilding approach, focusing on integrated conflict analysis, suggesting a new model for conflict analysis within the EU Common Security and Defence Policy. It explores recent interventions while also addressing the need for improved conflict sensitivity. It argues that greater self-reflexivity, and deeper reflection on motivations for intervention plays a critical role within multilateral efforts to address implementation gaps, encourage greater analytical capacity, suggest categories of partnership interaction with other actors and give centrality to the EUs integrated approach, reorienting away from the growing emphasis on securitisation. It is aimed at policy makers and practitioners, asking questions of contemporary analysis frameworks which validate causal pathways and currently provide the basis of the international peace architecture.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2 Context for EU Peacebuilding Interventions.- Chapter 3. Theoretical Dimensions of Conflict - Drivers and Intervention.- Chapter 4. Conflict Analysis and Design of Intervention.- Chapter 5. Complexity of Applying the Integrated Approach.- Chapter 6. Critical Issues in Conflict Analysis.- Chapter 7. Comparative Case Studies.-Chapter 8. Conflict Analysis and Integrated Working  Recommendations for Policy.

Kieran Doyle is Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland, and Deputy Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute. Since 2013, Dr Doyle has been Irish representative on the Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) based in the European External Action Service, Brussels. In 2023 he was a Fellow in the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, participating in a research cluster on Conflict and Identity Politics.

Sean Mc Gearty