International demand for military crisis-management missions
continues to grow and demand for troops continues to outstrip
supply. Like other Western democracies, European Union member
states, because of their wealth, relative military competence and
commitment to human rights, bear a particular responsibility to
expand the international community s capacity for action. But while
the EU has succeeded in defining a complex military-technical and
political-strategic framework to boost its role and that of its
member states in crisis management, its performance so far has
fallen well short of its ambitions.
This paper analyses what the EU wants to be able to do
militarily its level of ambition and contrasts this aspiration with
the current reality. To explain the gap between the two, the paper
examines national ambitions and performance across the EU and
analyses their domestic determinants using the examples of Austria,
Germany and the United Kingdom. The paper concludes by suggesting
that the EU might need to strike a new balance between the
inclusiveness and the effectiveness of its activities in this area
if it wants to increase its military crisis-management performance
and live up to its declared ambitions.
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