Special Issue: The European Union and Security Sector Reform Practices: Challenges of implementation

Oya Dursun-Ozkanca & Antoine Vandemoortele: The European Union and Security Sector Reform: current practices and challenges of implementation

Giovanni Faleg: Between knowledge and power: epistemic communities and the emergence of security sector reform in the EU security architecture

Maxime H.A. Larivé: From speeches to actions: EU involvement in the war in Afghanistan through the EUPOL Afghanistan Mission

Antoine Vandemoortele: Adaptation, resistance and a (Re)turn to functionalism: the case of the Bosnian police restructuring process (2003–2008)

Arnout Justaert: The implementation of the EU security sector reform policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Oya Dursun-Ozkanca & Katy Crossley-Frolick: Security sector reform in Kosovo: the complex division of labor between the EU and other multilateral institutions in building Kosovo's police force

Dimitris Bouris: The European Union's role in the Palestinian Territories: state-building through Security Sector Reform?

Greg Simons: Security Sector Reform and Georgia: the European Union's challenge in the Southern Caucasus

Simone Tholens: Which and whose authority? EU support to security governance in Aceh