European SecurityPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1688303
Vasile K. Rotaru
{"title":"Silencing the contestant. Legitimizing Crimea’s annexation by mimicking the West","authors":"Vasile K. Rotaru","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1688303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1688303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses Russia’s endeavours in legitimising the annexation of Crimea in the eyes of the Western community. The paper argues that Russia’s strategy of “silencing” the international contestation has been focused on the use of the West’s “language” for the justification of contested actions. Starting from the assertion that the formulation of Russia’s foreign policy is determined by Western normative frameworks and by the West’s international behaviour, the article scrutinised Moscow’s official narrative after March 2014 by comparing it with the West’s arguments used in particular in the cases of NATO’s intervention in Yugoslavia and the recognition of Kosovo’s independence.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"29 1","pages":"118 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1688303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46910197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1704267
Tim Graf
{"title":"Unity in the face of threat? Exploring the empirical relationship between strategic threat perceptions and public support for a common European army in Germany","authors":"Tim Graf","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1704267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1704267","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Perceptions of threat from Russia’s military activities in Ukraine and President Trump’s critical attitude towards NATO have put the idea of a common European army on the agenda of European politics. Do these strategic threat perceptions also influence public support for the creation of a common European army? Previous research has largely overlooked strategic threat perceptions as individual-level determinants of public support for a common European army. This article explores the empirical relationship between strategic threat perceptions and support for a common European army at the individual level of analysis with representative German survey data from 2018. The multivariate analysis shows that perceiving Russia’s military activities in Ukraine as a threat to Germany’s security, and U.S. foreign and security policy as a threat to the cohesion of NATO significantly increases support for the creation of a common European army, even when the influence of numerous other determinants is controlled for. The findings highlight the importance of considering strategic threat perceptions in future analyses of public opinion on European defence cooperation and integration.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"29 1","pages":"55 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1704267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44820479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773
O. Hassan
{"title":"The evolution of the European Union’s failed approach to Afghanistan","authors":"O. Hassan","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article provides a genealogical account of European actorness in Afghanistan. It argues that European agreement towards facilitating modernisation and development in Afghanistan was initiated with aid and trade, evolving into humanitarianism in the 1990s, and reconstruction and democratisation in the 2000s. The European Union has had a positive impact on Afghanistan, focusing on humanitarianism, but its multilateral and programme level approach to reconstruction and democratisation has failed to meet the EU’s stated objectives. By promoting the flawed “Bonn Model”, the EU is proportionally culpable for failed international attempts to reconstruct Afghanistan; even though the United States has been the primary international actor. Drawing a series of broader lessons, such as tensions between Atlantic solidarity and European integration, and the limitations of the European crisis management, the article demonstrates how European policy has been shaped by crises inside Afghanistan and the larger geopolitical crises these have generated. These have contemporary importance as history suggests that as the US withdraws its commitment to Afghanistan, the EU will have a very significant role in attempting to fill a humanitarian vacuum.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"29 1","pages":"74 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45985661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1641696
Lorenzo Cladi
{"title":"The European Union’s approach to conflict resolution: transformation or regulation in the Western Balkans","authors":"Lorenzo Cladi","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1641696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1641696","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"29 1","pages":"119 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1641696","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43169328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1649253
Jeremy W. Lamoreaux
{"title":"Europe and America: The End of the Transatlantic Relationship?","authors":"Jeremy W. Lamoreaux","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1649253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1649253","url":null,"abstract":"mentioned. Thirdly, the book could be a bit more specific in terms of the period for the analysis. This is arguably quite important when dealing with conflicts, which are in flux such as the ones in the Western Balkans. The EU’s engagement with the conflicts in the Balkans arguably began in the early 1990s. Jacques Poos, the Chair of the European Community Foreign Affairs Council and the foreign minister of Luxembourg, famously asserted","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"29 1","pages":"120 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1649253","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42656383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2019-09-19DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1667769
T. Palm, B. Crum
{"title":"Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor","authors":"T. Palm, B. Crum","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1667769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1667769","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For long, its lack of military means served to single the European Union out as a “civilian” or “normative power”. However, since 2003 twelve EU military operations have been launched. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of all EU military mission so far, this article seeks to establish how these missions have evolved over time and how they have affected the character of the EU as an international actor. For this purpose, the article outlines four ideal-typical conceptions of the EU's international identity and operationalises them along two underlying dimensions: justification (the purpose of military operations) and policy-embeddedness (the coordination between military means and other foreign policy instruments). Analysing the military operations along these two axes, the article suggests that the EU has been evolving towards a “Liberal Power” identity, as is reflected in a shift from value-based to utility-based justifications, while military operations have at the same time become more embedded in the EU's overall foreign policies.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"28 1","pages":"513 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1667769","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44174287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2019-09-18DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1665517
Jana Wrange, Rikard Bengtsson
{"title":"Internal and external perceptions of small state security: the case of Estonia","authors":"Jana Wrange, Rikard Bengtsson","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1665517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1665517","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article concerns small state security from a cognitive perspective and investigates Estonia as a security actor as perceived by all littoral Baltic Sea states. Drawing on unique elite survey and interview data, the article unpacks similarities and differences among internal (Estonian) and external perceptions of security, threats, and capabilities. The investigation is theoretically informed by research on perceptions, specifically image theory and role theory. Our analysis indicates that there are generally speaking quite similar perceptions among internal and external respondents regarding Estonia’s security situation, threat context, and the importance of EU and NATO membership. When it comes to capabilities in the security field, Estonian respondents have a somewhat more positive view than external respondents. Notably, Russian perceptions stand in stark contrast to those of others regarding most dimensions. Relating our results to previous research on national role conceptions, the perceptions we have explicated correspond to three distinct role conceptions – protectee/faithful ally, sub-system collaborator and regional leader.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"28 1","pages":"449 - 472"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1665517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42210115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1649658
Kari M. Osland, Mateja Peter
{"title":"The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: implementation and perception of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo","authors":"Kari M. Osland, Mateja Peter","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1649658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1649658","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This contribution increases the understanding of the EU's role in post-conflict settings by exploring perceptions of EULEX by local rule of law experts. Drawing on critical peacebuilding and the decline of normative power Europe literatures, we develop an analytical framework, underlining the importance of the intention–implementation gap and the implementation–perception gap in understanding how EU missions are perceived. By comparing local expert narratives to those of EULEX judges, prosecutors, and legal officers, we contend that the core problem for the negative perception of the mission results from what we call the double proximity paradox in peacebuilding. The first paradox is one of implementation and transpires when an actor commits substantial resources to address structural problems in a post-conflict territory due to its centrality for its own interests, but fails to uphold its commitment as its immediate interests can only be achieved through agents who contribute to these problems. The second paradox relates to perception and transpires as high commitments raise expectations of structural impact. The visibility of the actor's investment makes any implementation failures more tangible. The actor is therefore, paradoxically, the most open to criticism in a territory where it is doing the most.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"28 1","pages":"493 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1649658","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42420983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European SecurityPub Date : 2019-07-11DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1637855
Matus Halas
{"title":"Proving a negative: why deterrence does not work in the Baltics","authors":"Matus Halas","doi":"10.1080/09662839.2019.1637855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1637855","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The increased Russian foreign policy assertiveness and the related security concerns associated with the Eastern Flank of NATO caused a revival of interest in European deterrence after more than two decades of neglect. Yet the absence of a military invasion into the Baltics does not necessarily imply a successful deterrent threat. Quite the contrary: a detailed analysis using Boolean logic suggests that deterrence does not really work in the Baltics, neither at the conventional, nor at the sub-conventional level. A lack of capabilities undermines the credibility of NATO’s conventional deterrence posture despite its clear effort to communicate the threat to the other side. The only reason why the lack of capabilities on the Eastern Flank has no negative consequences for the Alliance is because Russia has (currently) no need to advance its state interests by resorting to military force. At the same time, deterrence fails repeatedly at the sub-conventional level and it will probably continue to fail in the future. Incidents like the relocation of the Bronze Soldier Memorial in 2007, the kidnapping of a security officer in 2014 or the violations of airspace in 2018 can escalate to a full-blown crisis. Limiting the number of such incidents should be the main goal of the cumulative deterrence of hybrid threats.","PeriodicalId":46331,"journal":{"name":"European Security","volume":"28 1","pages":"431 - 448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1637855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42867735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}