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The European external action service: an opportunity to reconcile development and security policies or a new battleground for inter-institutional turf wars? Universiteit Gent
“There cannot be sustainable development without peace and security, and without development and poverty eradication there will be no sustainable peace”. The commitment to intertwine development and security policies of both the European Union and the Member States has increasingly been put forward in policy documents since the early 2000s. While the security-development nexus seems at first sight obvious and rather unremarkable, it has ...
Sanctions under the EU generalised system of preferences and foreign policy: coherence by accident? Universiteit Gent
This article investigates the relationship between the European Union's withdrawal of trade benefits for developing countries under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) and its sanctions under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Our expectation is that GSP withdrawals and CFSP sanctions will not cohere. However, our research reveals that GSP suspension has been coherent with CFSP sanctions when the latter exist prior to the ...
Measuring regional actorness at the UN Security Council: the EU as a paragon of complexity KU Leuven
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012. Scholars studying regional actorness at the United Nations (UN) often rely on voting records to prove their point, in particular in relation to the performance of the European Union (EU) and its member states at the UN General Assembly (UNGA).1 Voting information has been used frequently for evaluating the implementation of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), with cohesion being seen ...
The complexities of measuring regional actorness at the UN Security Council KU Leuven
Scholars studying regional actorness at the United Nations (UN) often rely on voting records to prove their point, in particular in relation to the performance of the European Union (EU) and its member states at the UN General Assembly (UNGA).1 Voting information has been used frequently for evaluating the implementation of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), with cohesion being seen as a proxy for success. That is hardly ...
The EU and the security-development Nexus: bridging the legal divide Universiteit Gent
The need to enhance the coherence of EU security and development policies is stressed in numerous EU policy declarations.This article analyses this commitment against the background of the legal architecture of EU foreign policy.This demonstrates that the political simplicity with which this commitment is often put forward tends to hide the complexity of this undertaking in an external action system that submits the policy fields of development ...
The European Council and the CFSP after the Lisbon Treaty Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Treaty of Lisbon has further reinforced the position of the European Council at the top of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) decision-making hierarchy. This has encouraged the Heads of State or Government to go beyond their fundamental task of establishing the CFSP political priorities and strategic course, by attempting to take direct responsibility in CFSP crisis situations such as the Libyan revolt of 2011.This article reviews ...
The Design and Impact of Western Economic Sanctions against Russia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The economic sanctions imposed by the West against Russia in 2014, following the latter’s
aggression in Ukraine, were deliberately limited but nevertheless significant, their impact
distinguishable from that of the fall in oil prices that occurred in late 2014. Edward Hunter
Christie argues that these sanctions, in combination with credible threats of further
sanctions, appear to have had an effect in limiting Russian ...
aggression in Ukraine, were deliberately limited but nevertheless significant, their impact
distinguishable from that of the fall in oil prices that occurred in late 2014. Edward Hunter
Christie argues that these sanctions, in combination with credible threats of further
sanctions, appear to have had an effect in limiting Russian ...
Political Dialogue as an Instrument of EU Diplomacy: The Case of China Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Analysis of the types and political functions of the EU's political dialogue with third countries, with particular attention for the EU-China dialogue.
The European Union and the security-development nexus: bridging the legal divide Universiteit Gent
The long-standing commitment of the European Union to integrate and fine-tune its policies across the security-development nexus, aims to end the devastating vicious cycle of insecurity and poverty in fragile states. This research holds this pledge up to the mirror of the EUU+2019s underlying constitutional framework. The latter submits development cooperation and the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) U+2013 which includes the Common ...