Military CSDP operations: strategy, financing, effectiveness

Daniel Fiott

Research Handbook on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

Research Handbooks in European Law series

Edited by Steven Blockmans and Panos Koutrakos

In times of rapid change and unpredictability the European Union’s role in the world is sorely tested. How successfully the EU meets challenges such as war, terrorism and climate change, and how effectively the Union taps into opportunities like mobility and technological progress depends to a great extent on the ability of the EU’s institutions and member states to adopt and implement a comprehensive and integrated approach to external action. This Research Handbook examines the law, policy and practice of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, including the Common Security and Defence, and gauges its interactions with the other external policies of the Union (including trade, development, energy), as well as the evolving political and economic challenges that face the European Union.

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Published in print:: 28 Dec 2018

ISBN:: 9781785364075

eISBN:: 9781785364082

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364082

Pages:: c 560

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Chapter 6: Military CSDP operations: strategy, financing, effectiveness

Daniel Fiott

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Published:: 28 December 2018

Category:: Handbook Chapter

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364082.00014

Pages:: 111–131 (21 total)

Collection: Law 2018

Abstract

This chapter looks at the intersection of the legal and operational parameters in which military operations are deployed under the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). To this end, the chapter focuses on the challenges related to ‘mission creep’ and the flexibility of operational objectives, to the financial and legal aspects of deployment and to how geopolitical and strategic shifts affect military deployments under an EU banner. After an overview of the institutional architecture involved in deploying EU military operations, the chapter analyses case studies such as EUNAVFOR Operation Sophia, the EU’s military training missions and new initiatives such as the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence and Permanent Structured Cooperation. The chapter concludes by considering the broader strategic dynamics that currently affect EU military operations.

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