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Biuletyn OPINIE nr 30/2009: "EU crisis management in Africa. The time for a “real adventure”"

14.10.2009 10:31:54 - Dodane przez:admin

While demand for international crisis management forces continues to increase rapidly, the EU is still falling well short of its declared ambition in playing a major role in global security and in the promotion of peace and stability. The 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS) stresses that the Union “must be ready to shape events and develop a strategic culture that fosters early, rapid, and when necessary, robust intervention … and it should be able to sustain several operations simultaneously”. However, and as a matter of fact, the military operations launched outside Europe deployed in the African continent played a crucial role to highlight the discrepancies between the EU’s ambitions on a global scale and the limitation of what it is capable to do.

Author:
Elizabeth Deheza

BIULETYN_OPINIE_EU_crisis_management_in_Africa.pdf