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The European Union and Security Sector Reform
Edited by David Spence and Philipp Fluri
The EU has emerged as a key worldwide player in security sector reform in the last few years, reflecting its twin role as the world’s largest source of development assistance and, ever increasingly, a major partner in international peacekeeping and police operations. In this comprehensive new study (February 2008), published in association with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the authors:
• explain the origins of SSR as a concept and the EU’s embrace of it, culminating in the adoption of an overall EU framework for SSR in 2006 • show how SSR relates to the EU’s development, enlargement, justice and home affairs and other key policy concerns • look at the multiplicity of resources, financial and human, the EU brings to bear to support SSR around the globe • discuss the tensions between the Commission’s and Council’s concepts and engagement in SSR and the efforts being made to coordinate action • show how the EU works in partnership with other international players such as the OECD and NATO • provide a series of detailed case studies of EU support for SSR in action – in the Balkans, former Soviet Union, Congo, the Middle East and North Africa and Indonesia
Published in association with DCAF - the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. DCAF is an international foundation with 45 states and the canton of Geneva in membership that was established by the Swiss government in October 2000. Its mission is to promote good governance and reform of the security sector in accordance with democratic standards. www.dcaf.ch
David Spence is Political Counsellor at the European Commission's Delegation to the International Organisations in Geneva. Philipp Fluri is Deputy Director of DCAF and Executive Director of DCAF Brussels.
DETAILED CONTENTS
Introduction, by Alyson Bailes
Chapter 1. The evolution of the concepts of security sector reform and security sector governance: the EU perspective, by David Law and Oksana Myshlovska
Chapter 2. The European Community perspective on SSR: the development of a comprehensive EU approach, by Inger Buxton
Chapter 3. Security sector reform: a challenging concept at the nexus between security and development, by Patrick Doelle and Antoine Gouzee de Harven
Chapter 4. The difficulties of a donor: EU financial instruments, security sector reform and effective international assistance, by Catriona Gourlay
Chapter 5. Security sector reform: CFSP, ESDP and the international impact of the EU's second pillar, by Willem van Eekelen
Chapter 6. Justice and home affairs: security sector reform measures as instruments of EU internal security objectives, by Jorg Monar
Chapter 7. Parliamentary control over European security policy, by Elmar Brok
Chapter 8. Beyond the external-internal security divide: implications for EU policies of protection, by Magnus Ekengren
Chapter 9. EU conditionality and security sector reform in the Western Balkans, by Alex Dowling
Chapter 10. EU support for security sector reform in the former Soviet Union: a piecemeal success, by Duncan Hiscock
Chapter 11. Security system reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the role played by the European Union, by Rory Keane
Chapter 12. The EU and its southern neighbours: promoting security sector reform in the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, by Derek Lutterbeck and Fred Tanner
Chapter 13. Civilian crisis management in Asia: the Aceh Monitoring Mission, by Suying Lai
Chapter 14. EU-NATO cooperation in post-conflict reconstruction, by Karl-Heinz Rambke and Sebastian Keil
Chapter 15. Supporting security and justice: the OECD approach to security sector reform, by Mark Downes and Graham Thompson
Conclusion, by David Spence and Philipp Fluri
Annexes (relevant EU documents)
Index
ISBN 978-0-9551144-9-6 • £23/ 35 euros • Publication February 2008
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