Overview
Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers a fresh reading of the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). In his examination of the discursive space related to the use of military force by the European Union Tommi Koivula argues that even though the European Union uses military force extremely rarely, a discursive tension related to military force persists in the continuum of diverse perceptions of the Common Security and Defence Policy. The book offers a detailed study of the official high-level CSDP documents, a section devoted to dynamic accounts of CSDP operations and an analysis of the unofficial debate on EU military enforcement. By examining the EU's relationship to its military dimension during the course of its history and by demonstrating that the contemporary CSDP discursive space incoherent in nature and contains inherent contradictions, new insights will be given to the most sensitive question of whether extreme forms of military enforcement are appropriate for the EU.
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Tommi Koivula
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9781472468079
ISBN 10: 1472468074
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
`Decisions taken at Helsinki launched the EU's military dimension, and it is worth listening to a Finnish voice on what happened next. In this book, Dr Koivula pulls apart several myths and false debates to focus on the use of military force under the EU Common Security and Defence Policy. What does the EU say (or avoid saying) about this, and what does it actually do? Bearing in mind the traditional idea of using force as a test of effective power in the world, what do the answers tell us more generally about the Union? Using the newest research concepts and techniques, this book offers frank and clear answers to some tangled and (for Europeans) surprisingly sensitive questions.'Alyson J.K. Bailes, University of Iceland, Iceland
Author Information
Doctor of Social Sciences (University of Tampere, 2004) Tommi Koivula works as a senior researcher at the Department of Warfare, the Finnish National Defence University. His current research areas include the security aspects of the European integration and International Relations theory. Previously, he has been a lecturer at the University of Tampere and a visiting researcher at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) in 2001.
