Exploring the civil-military interface and its impact on European strategic and operational personalities: ‘civilianisation’ and limiting military roles in stabilisation operations?

Abstract:

Whilst the strategic and operational ‘personalities’ of states and international organisations are shaped by a wide range of variables, increasingly the structure and characteristics of the operational civil-military interface have become significant shaping factors in their own right. This has been driven by two interrelated processes: adaptations in the nature and objectives of international intervention operations and a repositioning of state and international organisations’ assistance, military and political intervention strategies in relation to one another. These have generated a number of institutional and policy adaptations amongst several European states, NATO and the EU. This paper charts particularly significant or innovative changes within Denmark, the United Kingdom, NATO and the EU.