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Missing in action? EU crisis management and the link to the dom / Koivula, Tommi; Sipila, Joonas

Sipila, Joonas	Journal Article
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2011.

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One of the key themes in recent discussions about the EU's foreign and security policy has been the question of Europeanization. This article seeks to contribute to this field of research by investigating the way in which a single EU military crisis management operation, the EUFOR Chad/CAR, has been perceived and debated on a national parliamentary arena in two member states, Sweden and Finland. The results suggest that a marked discontinuity prevailed between these nations' policies in the context of the CSDP/ESDP and the discourse on CSDP/ESDP in the respective parliaments. While highlighting the need to pay more attention to the domestic dimension of Europeanization, these findings also call into question some of the basic premises of the discussion on Europeanization.

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European Union ; Parliaments ; CSDP ; EUFOR Chad/CAR ; Crisis Management

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Reconstructing war after the cold war. / Raitasalo, Jyri; Sipila, Joonas

Jul-Sep 2004 Journal Article

Raitasalo, Jyri	Journal Article
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July-Sep 2004.

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War is a multi-faceted phenomenon. Against the trend of conceptualising war from a technological perspective, a historically sensitive strategic perspective on war is suggested, relying on Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm. The analytical utility of this framework on war is strengthened by investigating its historical relevance, as well as by applying it to the evaluation of the post-Cold War conceptualizations of war. In the latter context, the influence of six essential factors on contemporary definitions of war is established. Accordingly, the "nature" of contemporary war is conceptualized via the process of reproducing and transforming the Cold War-era understandings of war.

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New World Order ; Post Cold War Era ; Technology War ; War Concept

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