EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Operations: Power, purpose and domestic politics

by Benjamin Pohl

Book Overview

This book explores the drivers of the EU's recent forays into peace- and state-building operations.

Since the Union's European (now Common) Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) became operational in 2003, the EU has conducted more than 20 civilian and military operations that broadly served to either deter aggression in host countries, and/or to build or strengthen the rule of law. This sudden burst of EU activity in the realm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138951943
• ISBN13: 9781138951945
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"