Cover -- The European Union and Military Force -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: CSDP, strategic actorness and security governance -- Conceptions of the EU as an international actor -- The EU as a strategic actor -- The governance turn in EU studies -- Towards heterarchy -- The interaction of multiple actors -- Formal and informal institutionalisation -- Relations between actors that are ideational in character -- A collective purpose -- The promise of the security governance approach -- Strategic actorness and security governance -- Structure of the book -- 2 European strategic culture and the Comprehensive Approach -- Is there a European strategic culture? -- Beyond constructive ambiguity -- Creating a purpose for the CSDP -- The reluctant military actor: acting comprehensively as an end -- Concluding remarks -- 3 In pursuit of the EU interest: state, individual and institutional agency in the CSDP -- The evolution of EU foreign policy-making: a search for efficiency -- The expanding role of the Council Secretariat in the CSDP -- The Solana legacy: the changing power of individuals in the CSDP -- The impact of big and small Member States on the CSDP -- Concluding remarks -- 4 The institutional link: creating a civil-military organisation fit for purpose -- Two models for organising the civil-military interface -- Flawed by design -- Reforming the civil-military structures -- Building a culture of coordination -- The joint SITCEN: a pathfinder for EU civil-military integration? -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Building European capabilities: beyond the transatlantic gap -- The capability gap and the concept of interoperability -- The Headline Goal 2003: (re-)counting old capabilities -- The Headline Goal 2010: from quantity to quality (I)? -- The case of the Nordic Battlegroup.

Lead and niche nations: the CSDP as arena for role specialisation -- The European Defence Agency: managing the system top-down? -- The civilian capability process: sending solicitors to war -- The Civilian Headline Goal 2008: from quantity to quality (II)? -- Broad interoperability as comparative advantage -- Concluding remarks -- 6 CSDP operations: learning through failure or failing to learn? -- Categorising EU operations -- Europe and its Southern flanks: mastering your own backyard -- Operations in the Western Balkans -- Operations in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe -- Operations in the Middle East -- Africa and the wider Middle East: a testing ground for the CSDP -- Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -- Operations in Central Africa -- Other EU operations in Africa and beyond -- The world is the stage: the EU's global ambitions -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Conclusion: a comprehensive strategic actor for the future? -- A comprehensive strategic actor? -- EU security governance revisited: a strategic actor for the future? -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Assesses the function, successes of and challenges for the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy.

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