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This article provides a theoretically informed analysis to understand why and how security sector reform (SSR) norms have been integrated into the European Union (EU) security architecture. It investigates the role of epistemic communities in advancing the security-development/good governance agenda underpinning SSR and in fostering institutional learning. Shared knowledge and expertise have driven policy and institutional change, since they yielded a new policy consensus that transformed the EU's approach to security in the post-cold war international system. Empirical findings, based on content analysis and on 25+ semi-structured interviews, suggest that transnational expertise-based networks did play a leading role in shaping SSR conceptual development. However, they also show that cleavages between epistemic communities across the security/development dividing line are ultimately responsible for the EU's failure to achieve a coherent SSR policy implementation. Moreover, the article concludes that the institutionalisation of SSR in the EU did not originate in a single norm setter, nor in sheer ideational stimulus. Change occurred through the complex interplay between ideas and interests, that is between knowledge and power, leading specific norms to be visualised as consensual and dominant.
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Since the 9 of the 11 events, the US and the European Union (EU) have been involved in Afghanistan in order to fight the Taliban and reinstitute Afghan authority and legitimacy domestically and internationally. This article looks at the case study of the EU Police mission in Afghanistan - EUPOL-A - launched in 2007. The Police Reform implemented by EUPOL, modeled on previous police missions, is based on the Security Sector Reform (SSR), which focuses on improving the rule of law by strengthening two sectors: police and judiciary. Afghanistan is a unique case study as it is the first Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) mission launched in time of war and illustrates divergent strategic opinions within the Euro-Atlantic community. This article suggests that the outcomes in Afghanistan have considerable implications on the future of the CSDP in civilian missions and the credibility of the EU as a civilian power.
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