European Military Crisis Management: Connecting Ambition and Reality

by Giegerich,Bastian

• ISBN13: 9780415494199
• ISBN10: 0415494192
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-02-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

International demand for military crisis-management missions continues to grow and demand for troops continues to outstrip supply. Like other Western democracies, European Union member states, because of their wealth, relative military competence and commitment to human rights, bear a particular responsibility to expand the international community's capacity for action. But while the EU has succeeded in defining a complex military-technical and political-strategic framework to boost its role and that of its member states in crisis management, its performance so far has fallen well short of its ambitions.

Table of Contents

Glossary	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
States' ambition and performance: the' crisis-management profile'	p. 11
EU Crisis Management: Ambitions and Achievements	p. 15
Headline goals past and present	p. 16
Scenarios, planning assumptions and capabilities development	p. 19
Operational record	p. 22
Case study: EU bridging operations in the DRC	p. 27
Ambition versus performance	p. 32
National Ambitions and Performance	p. 35
State levels of ambition	p. 38
Operational record	p. 43
Scorecard	p. 53
Domestic Determinants of National Profiles: Constraints or Enablers?	p. 59
Available means: key capabilities and financial resources	p. 59
Strategic culture	p. 66
National capacity for action	p. 71
Linking domestic factors to crisis-management profiles	p. 81
Conclusion	p. 83
Notes	p. 87
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