Books, articles and policy reports

These unofficial documents pertain to EU civilian capabilities in conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

  • Babaud, S., Giarmana, V., Parker, R. and Rynn, S. (2009) (IfP) security cluster ‘Responding to people’s security needs. Improving the impact of EU programming’, Synthesis Report, Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP)
  • Beswick, T. (2012) ‘Improving Institutional Capacity for Early Warning’, Synthesis Report, Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP).
  • Blockmans, S. (2007) Tough Love. The European Union’s Relations with the Western Balkans, The Hague: T.M.C Asser Press.
  • Blockmans, S. Wouters, J. and Ruys, T. eds. (2010) The European Union and peacebuilding. The Hague: T.M.C Asser Press.
  • Brante, J., de Franco, C., Meyer, C. and Otto, F. (2011).) ‘Worse, Not better? Reinvigorating early warning for conflict prevention in the post-Lisbon European Union’, Egmont Paper, Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels.
  • Chivvis, C. (2010) EU Civilian Crisis Management The Record So Far, RAND Corporation [last accessed 11 July 2014].
  • Dijkstra, H. (2013), Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense: An Institutional Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • EPLO (2011) Linking Peacebuilding and Development
  • EPLO (2012) Maximising EU support to the Women, Peace and Security agenda
  • EPLO (2013a) Policy Paper on civilian CSDP
  • EPLO (2013b) EU support to peace mediation: development and challenges
  • George, A.L. and Holl, J.E. (1997) The Warning-Response Problem and Missed Opportunities in Preventive Diplomacy. A Report to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
  • Germond, B. and Smith, M.E. (2009) ‘Re-Thinking European Security Interests and the ESDP: Explaining the EU’s Anti-Piracy Operation’. Contemporary Security Policy, 30(3): 573-93.
  • Giegerich, B. (2010) ‘Military and Civilian Capabilities for EU-led Crisis-Management Operations’, Europe and Global Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 41-58.
  • Greco, E. Pirozzi N. and Silvestri, S. (eds) (2010) ‘EU crisis management: institutions and capabilities in the making’, Quaderni IAI, Rome: IAI.
  • Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS), Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) (2010). Study on the industrial implications in Europe of the blurring of dividing lines between security and defence. Study for the EC DG Enterprise and Industry.
  • Juncos, A.E. (2013) EU Foreign and Security Policy in Bosnia. The Politics of Coherence and Effectiveness, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Juncos, A.E. (2007) ‘Civil-military co-ordination in Security Sector Reform: experiences from EU crisis management policies’ in Britz, M. (ed.), The European Union and Security Sector Reform, Stockholm, Swedish National Defence College, pp. 53-66.
  • Korski, D. and Gowan, R. (2009) ‘Can the EU Rebuild Failing States? A Review of Europe’s Civilian Capacities’, ECFR policy report, London: ECFR.
  • Olsen, G.R. (2014) ‘Fighting terrorism in Africa by proxy: the USA and the European Union in Somalia and Africa’, European Security, 23(3): 290-306.
  • Paris, R. and Sisk, T.D. (2009) The dilemmas of statebuilding. Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations. London: Routledge.
  • Peen Rodt, A. (2014) The European Union and Military Conflict Management: Defining, Evaluating and Achieving Success. London: Routledge.
  • Pirozzi, N. (2013) The EU´s comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management, DCAF: Brussels.
  • Ramsbotham, O., Woodhouse, T., Miall, H. (2011) Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Cambridge: Polity, 3rd
  • Rotberg, R. (ed.) (2003) When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Simon, L. (ed.) (2010) ‘European Defence Capabilities. No Adaptability without Co-operation’, RUSI Occasional Paper, London: RUSI.
  • Smith, M.E. (2003) Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Themnér, L. and Wallensteen, P. (2013) ‘Armed Conflicts, 1946-2012’, Journal of Peace Research, 50(4): 509-521.
  • Vanhoonacker, S., Dijkstra, H. and Maurer, H. (eds) (2010), ‘Understanding the Role of Bureaucracy in the European Security and Defence Policy’, European Integration Online Papers 14, special issue 1.
  • Woollard, C. (2013) ‘The EU and the Comprehensive Approach’ .