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114605
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2012.
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This article seeks to return to the question of an EU military capability
and assesses the organisations capacity for military action through an
analysis of the work ongoing in the European Defence Agency and the
prospects for practically utilising Permanent Structured Cooperation. It
highlights that the introduction of Permanent Structured Cooperation
can be seen as an opportunity for the EU Member States to ?nally
begin to address their capability gaps. Whether signi?cant change actually materialises will depend upon how such a mechanism is implemented in practice. Several factors pose major challenges: lack of
suf?cient political will to practically employ the Battlegroups, static or
declining defence budgets, unwillingness among the Member States to
pool capabilities and the lack of a fully ?edged European strategic culture. By applying the concept of strategic culture this article seeks to
analyse these complex dynamics and uncover the possibilities for bringing a new impetus behind defence cooperation within the Common
and Security Defence Policy.
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160734
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Risks are omnipresent in contemporary international security. Despite a long tradition in security studies going at least back to Von Clausewitz, we consider that the topic of risk remains under-examined. This forum seeks to advance the research agenda on risk in security studies by showcasing work of scholars using advanced concepts of risk, based on insights from sociology, biology, psychology, and safety studies, to better understand the role of risk in international security. As a way of introduction, this short article sets out the main debates.
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170754
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nternational organizations continuously deploy civilian capabilities as part of their peacekeeping and crisis management operations. This presents them with significant challenges. Not only are civilian deployments rapidly increasing in quantity, but civilian missions are also very diverse in nature. This article analyses how international organizations have learned to deploy their civilian capabilities to deal with a growing number and fast evolving types of operations. Whereas the previous literature has addressed this question for individual international organizations, this article uniquely compares developments in the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), three of the largest civilian actors. Drawing on the concept of organizational learning, it shows that all three organizations have made significant changes over the last decade in their civilian capabilities. The extent of these changes, however, varies across these organizations. The article highlights that the EU, despite its more homogeneous and wealthier membership, has not been able to better learn to deploy its civilian capabilities than the UN or OSCE. We show that the ability of these organizations to learn is, instead, highly dependent on institutional factors.
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