Managing the Civil-Military Interface in the EU: Creating an Organisation Fit for Purpose

被引:7
作者
Norheim-Martinsen, Per Martin [1 ]
机构
[1] Norwegian Def Res Estab, Trondheim, Norway
来源
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ONLINE PAPERS-EIOP | 2010年 / 14卷
关键词
civil-military relations; CFSP; ESDP; Common Foreign and Security Policy; European Security and Defense Policy; security/external; institutionalisation; benchmarking; political science;
D O I
10.1695/2010010
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
The establishment of European Security and Defense Policy/Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1999 has been accompanied by the anticipation that the European Union will represent a unique strategic actor because of its ability to mix civilian and military crisis management instruments as part of a comprehensive approach. But to what extent is this characteristic reflected in the EU's civil-military organisation? The EU is clearly not a state, but it does embody certain non-intergovernmental characteristics that set it beyond a "normal" inter-state organisation or alliance, the expansion of the role of the administrative level being one of them. The development of a well-functioning civil-military organisation is important in this regard, but appropriate benchmarks for what such an organisation would look like are missing from the current EU debate. A problem is that, when focusing on the novelty and uniqueness of the EU's comprehensive approach, institutional change is often treated as a good in itself. However, by contrasting and using two classical models for organising civil-military relations - Samuel Huntington's so-called "normal", or separated model, and Morris Janowitz' "constabulary", or integrated model - as benchmarks, the article shows that institutional innovations have largely sustained a separation of the civil-military interface, despite the stated objective of developing an EU "culture of coordination". This situation reflects the inherent tension between a traditional civil-military culture with deep roots in the Member States, on the one hand, and an evolving "in-house" civil-military culture within the Council Secretariat, on the other. When it comes to ESDP/CSDP, certain Member States have used institutional reform as a way to push through national agendas, producing frequent but often ineffective institutional change. At the same time, there has been a lack of attention inside the Council Secretariat paid to effective measures for breaking down professional and cultural barriers between military officers and civilian personnel.
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