For a fairer, safer and more united world : An explorative research of EU peace operations, 2002-2007
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2009-03
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en
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This explorative research focuses on the reasons behind peace operations deployed by
the European Union (EU). During the 1990s the EU became a regional security
organisation. In 2001 the European Council in Laeken declared that the EU was capable
of conducting some crisis-management operations. In January 2003 the European Union
(EU) deployed its first peace operation under the EU-flag. Many different operations
followed. In the period 2002 until 2007 the European Commission decided to deploy
twenty peace operations. These European peace operations are deployed in Europe as
well as in Asia and Africa. The broad spread of the EU operations is the puzzle of this
research. There are many conflicts in which the EU could intervene, so the question rises
why the EU deploys peace operations in dome states and not in others. This explorative
research determines which reasons for interventions do or do not apply on the EU peace
operations. Therefore the central research question is:
Based on which reasons does the European Union deploy peace-operations in a
certain region or state?
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen