Assessing the Impact of the European Union as an International Actor

151 Pages·2006·0.73 MB·English

ZÜRCHER BEITRÄGE
ZUR SICHERHEITSPOLITIK NR. 77
Editor: Anne Deighton, with Victor Mauer
SECURING EUROPE?
IMPLEMENTING THE EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY
Series Editors
Andreas Wenger and Victor Mauer
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
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ZÜRCHER BEITRÄGE
ZUR SICHERHEITSPOLITIK NR. 77
Editor: Anne Deighton, with Victor Mauer
SECURING EUROPE
?
IMPLEMENTING THE EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY
Series Editors
Andreas Wenger and Victor Mauer
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
CSS
An ETH Center

Contents
Contributors 
Introduction 9
By Anne Deighton
Part I: European Security in Practice
 Foreign Policy and the European Union’s Security Strategy 
By Anne Deighton
 ESDP Deployments and the European Security Strategy 
By Graham Messervy-Whiting
 Money Matters: Financing EU Crisis Management 
By Antonio Missiroli
Part II: The European Union: A Multilateral Actor
 ESDP and Civil/Military Cooperation: Bosnia and
Herzegovina,  9
By David Leakey
 Implementing ESDP Operations in Africa 
By Pierre-Antoine Braud
 Assessing the Impact of the European Union as an
International Actor 
By Damien Helly
 Th e European Union and Counter-Terrorism 
By Victor Mauer
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Part III: And Now?
 An American Eulogy for European Defence 
By Kori Schake
 Securing Europe after Enlargement 
By Graham Avery
 EU Foreign Policy: Where Next after the European
SecurityStrategy? 
By Jim Cloos
Appendix
Th e European Security Strategy 
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Contributors
Graham Avery was until recently a Director in the European Commis-
sion, responsible for Strategy, Coordination and Analysis in the Direc-
torate General for External Relations. He is now a Senior Member of
St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He writes here in a personal
capacity.
Dr Pierre-Antoine Braud is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Securi-
ty Studies of the European Union, Paris. He deals with African issues – in
particular confl ict and post-confl ict management, and EU-Africa rela-
tions. Before joining the Institute, he was a political offi cer to three UN
Peacekeeping Operations (Bosnia, DR-Congo, Ivory Coast) and also a
consultant for governments, NGOs and think tanks on central African
confl icts.
Jim Cloos is a Director in the Council of the European Union’s General
Secretariat. He writes here in a personal capacity.
Dr Anne Deighton is a member of the Department of Politics and In-
ternational Relations, University of Oxford, and was on leave for three
years as a faculty fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva.
She is a member of the Council and Executive Committee of Chatham
House, London. She has published extensively on the development of the
European Union, including ‘Th e European Security and Defence Policy’,
Journal of Common Market Studies, 40/4, 2002.
Dr Damien Helly is EU Advocacy and Policy Coordinator for Safer-
world, an independent non-governmental organisation, and is based in
Brussels. He was formerly Caucasus Project Director for the International
Crisis Group, and has researched and written extensively on the European
Union’s external actions in the former Soviet Union and the Union’s new
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neighbourhood. He is the co-author of L’Union européenne, acteur inter-
national, (2005) and of articles on EU foreign policy and the Caucasus.
Major General David Leakey CMG, CBE, was commissioned into the
Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army. He has undertaken opera-
tional tours with the UN in Cyprus, with NATO in the Balkans, and in
Northern Ireland. He has also held key appointments in the Operations
Directorate in the Ministry of Defence. Between December 2004 and
December 2005, he was Commander of the European Force (EUFOR) in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. From March 2007, he will take over as Director
General of the EU Military Staff in Brussels.
Dr Victor Mauer is Deputy Director of the Center for Security Studies at
ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He specialises in European security, European
integration, and transatlantic relations. He has published on contempo-
rary history as well as on current European and transatlantic aff airs.
Major General (retd) Graham Messervy-Whiting CBE, is Deputy Di-
rector of the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the Uni-
versity of Birmingham, UK. In 2000, Javier Solana recruited Graham
Messervy-Whiting to assist him in the development of a security and de-
fence capability for the European Union, including the design of an EU
Military Staff (EUMS). Graham Messervy-Whiting became the EUMS’
fi rst Chief of Staff in 2001.
Dr Antonio Missiroli is Chief Policy Analyst at the European Policy
Centre in Brussels (http://www.theepc.be). Between 1998 and 2005, he
was a Research Fellow at the Western European Union/European Union
Institute for Security Studies in Paris.
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Professor Kori Schake is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
and the Distinguished Chair of International Security Studies at the US
Military Academy. She served as the Director for Defense Strategy and
Requirements on the US National Security Council, 2002–2005. Her
most recent publication is National Security: A Better Approach, with
Bruce Berkowitz, in Hoover Digest.

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