Product details
- Categories: Foreign and Security Policy, Sécurity
- Publisher: OUP - Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780198844815
- Publication Date: 21/05/2020
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 336
- Language: English
Summary
Currently, some 2,500 civilian experts work across Europe, Africa, and
Asia in ten ongoing civilian missions launched under the Common Security
and Defence Policy (CSDP). Mandates cover a broad range of
multidimensional tasks, such as rule of law support, law enforcement
capacity building, or security sector reform. Numerous (recent)
incidents from the field underscore that there are serious institutional
as well as procedural weaknesses and irregularities tied to
accountability in these EU peacebuilding missions.
This title
offers a comprehensive legal analysis and empirical study of
accountability concerning the Union's peacebuilding endeavours, also
referred to as civilian crisis management. Along with examining the
governance credentials of EU peacebuilding, the monograph thoroughly
scrutinizes de jure and de facto accountability arrangements of
political, legal, and administrative nature existing in the domestic
sphere, at EU level, and across levels. With a view to providing for a
nuanced picture, the assessment further distinguishes between different
accountability finalities and evaluates the appropriateness of existing
accountability arrangements in civilian crisis management based on a
combination of quantitative and qualitative criteria.
Table of contents
1.: Accountability for EU Peacebuilding Missions
2.: Unpacking the Civilian Dimension of EU Security and Defence
3.: Accountability: a Complex Concept for a Compound Policy Tool
4.: Research Design
5.: Political Accountability: Unsteady Parliamentary Involvement
6.: Legal Accountability: Beyond Jurisdictional Reach?
7.: Administrative Accountability: Separate but Complementary Fora
8.: Civilian Crisis Management in an Accountability Crisis?