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The European Union's Brand of Peacebuilding - Acting is Everything (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The European Union's Brand of Peacebuilding - Acting is Everything (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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"Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis
of the role of EU's peace missions I have read so far. It starts
with the 'action for the sake of action' logic of CSDP development
and offers a new interpretation of what CSDP could be, if just
peace was part of its political agenda. A rare gem in European
studies."- Xymena Kurowska, Associate Professor of International
Relations at Central European University, Hungary "This impressive
research monograph provides a critical account of EUs peace
missions by asking what these missions offer, how peace is built,
and whom these missions serve. To address these important
questions, Birgit Poopuu develops and employs an original and
sophisticated discursive framework of telling and acting to conduct
an in-depth investigation of EU peace missions Artemis in the DRC,
EUFOR Althea in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and EULEX in Kosovo. This
book's ground-breaking exploration advances the study of the EU as
a peacebuilder."- Annika Bjoerkdahl, Professor of Political
Science, Lund University, Sweden, and Editor in Chief of
Cooperation and Conflict This book critically explores the European
Union's brand of peacebuilding in the form of its Common Security
and Defence Policy (CSDP). A contextually close reading of EU
missions - using the fluid categories of telling and acting,
stressing the dialogical ways of being, and taking heed of the
concept of just peace as a particular guide to building peace -
allows the book to tap into the specific meanings the EU has of
peace, the ways in which it imagines its relationships with its
varied partners, and perhaps most controversially, the way that
being/becoming a global actor has been front and center of the
CSDP. The analysis focuses on three core missions in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. One of the
recurring themes that emerges from the empirical chapters is the
significance attached to acting, and that acting per se constitutes
success of a mission, without much thought given to its substance,
or the outcome of the EU's engagement. The imaginative force of
this book rests on developing a set of context-sensitive analytical
tools, encapsulated in the dialogical model of identity formation
and the dynamic approach to analysing identity through telling and
acting.
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