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The European Union has emerged as a key worldwide player in security sector reform (SSR) in the last few years, reflecting its twin role as the world’s largest source of development assistance and, ever increasingly, a major partner in international peacekeeping and police operations. In this comprehensive new study, published in association with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the authors:
• explain the origins of SSR as a concept and the EU’s embrace of it, culminating in the adoption of an overall EU framework for SSR in 2006
• show how SSR relates to the EU’s development, enlargement, justice and home affairs and other key policy concerns
look at the multiplicity of resources, financial and human, the EU brings to bear to support SSR around the globe
• discuss the tensions between the European Commission’s and Council of the European Union’s concepts and engagement in SSR and the efforts being made to coordinate action
• show how the EU works in partnership with other international players such as the OECD and NATO
• provide a series of detailed case studies of EU support for SSR in action – in the Balkans, former Soviet Union, Congo, the Middle East and North Africa and Indonesia
Contents:
Part I. Security Sector Governance and Security Sector Reform: the EU Policy Framework
1. The Evolution of the Concepts of Security Sector Reform and Security Sector Governance: the EU perspective (David Law and Oksana Myshlovska)
2. A First Pillar Perspective on EU and SSR: the development of a comprehensive EU approach (Inger Buxton)
3. Security Sector Reform and EU Development Policy (Patrick Doelle and Antoine Gouzée de Harven)
4. The Difficulties of a Donor: EU financial instruments, security sector reform and effective international assistance (Catriona Gourlay)
5. Security Sector Reform: CFSP, ESDP and the international impact of the EU's second pillar (Willem van Eekelen)
6. Justice and Home Affairs: security sector reform measures as instruments of EU internal security objectives (Jorg Monar)
7. Parliamentary Control over European Security Policy (Elmar Brok)
8. Beyond the external - internal security divide: inter-pillar implications for EU policies of protection (Magnus Ekengren)
Part II. European Union Security Sector Reform in Practice
9. EU Conditionality and Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans (Alex Dowling)
10. EU Support for Security Sector Reform in the former Soviet Union: a piecemeal success (Duncan Hiscock)
11. SSR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the role played by the European Union (Rory Keane)
12. The EU and its Southern Neighbours: promoting security sector reform in the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East (Fred Tanner and Derek Lutterbeck)
13. Civilian Crisis Management in Asia: the Aceh Monitoring Mission (Suying Lai)
Part III. Security Sector Reform in International Perspective
14. EU-NATO Cooperation in Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Karl-Heinz Rambke and Sebastian Keil)
15. Supporting Security and Justice: the OECD approach to security system reform (Mark Downes and Graham Thompson)
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