Nováky European Union Military Operations

A Collective Action Perspective
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-59084-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy

This book offers an in-depth study on the deployment of military operations in the framework of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).



While existing studies of the subject are either descriptive or focused on a single level of analysis, this book incorporates factors from three different levels of analysis to explain the deployment of ESDP military operations. The approach it develops is based on the assumption that the deployment of ESDP military operations is a complex process that cuts across different policy making levels from the national to the international and involves multiple actors from within and outside the EU. The book argues that the reasons behind the deployment of ESDP military operations cannot be understood sufficiently by focusing only on a single level of analysis, as many scholars have done in the past. It develops a more holistic approach for understanding the deployment of ESDP military operations based on three different levels of analysis: firstly, the international level, where the emergence of events that threaten certain values held dear by EU member states catalyses the process leading to an operation; secondly, the national level, where the member states formulate their initial national preferences towards a prospective deployment based on national utility expectations; and thirdly, the EU level, where the member states come to negotiate and seek compromises to accommodate their different national preferences towards a deployment. The book presents four in-depth military case studies. These are the deployment processes of Operation Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Operation Artemis and EUFOR RD Congo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Operation Atalanta off the coast of Somalia. These are used to demonstrate the strength of the multi-level collective action approach, and draw on a wealth of primary sources, including over 50 semi-structured interviews that the author conducted with national and EU officials in 2011-15. The book also provides an up to date overview and critique of the existing theoretical literature on the deployment of ESDP/CSDP military operations.



This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU politics, military and strategic studies, and IR in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nováky, Niklas I. M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Preface

1: New Frontier: The deployment of European Union military operations

2: Revelations: A multi-level collective action approach

3: Out of the Shadows: Operation Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina

4: To Tame a Land: Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

5: Deja-vu: EUFOR RD Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

6: Gangland: Operation Atalanta off the cost of Somalia

7: The Aftermath: Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Niklas I.M. Nováky is a Research Officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Aberdeen, UK.