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UN and EU Cooperation in Global Peace Missions

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This chapter covers the rapport of the UN and the EU in the peace process on international disputes. Yet, the process of cooperation within both sides has gone on an extremely inhibited environment. Both the UN and the EU have showed a determination to go ahead in strengthening their relationship and cooperation even though they have significant structural and theoretical differences in the organisations’ own plans, strategies, working, community measures and the limitation in the span of their collaboration in the peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace operations. Most of times, the EU plays its role as a civilian power, but in some areas it helped the UN in armed forces.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Maastricht Treaty emphasised “to preserve peace and strengthen international security. In accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, as well as principles of the Helsinki Final Act and the objectives of the Parts Charter, including those on external borders” Article J.1.2, http://www.hri.org/docs/Maastricht92/mt_title5.html; Accessed on 16/07/2013

  2. 2.

    http://www.eu-un.europa.eu/articles/articleslist_s88_en.htm; Accessed on 16/07/2013.

  3. 3.

    United Nations Peacekeeping Factsheet, July 2011: Annex 2, In Novosseloff, Alexandra. 2012. “United Nations-European Union Cooperation in the Field of Peacekeeping Challenges and Prospects,” Global Governance Institute Analysis Paper No. 4/2012, June 2012, Brussels, p. 8. (Novosseloff 2012)

  4. 4.

    Novosseloff, Alexandra. 2012. “United Nations-European Union Cooperation in the Field of Peacekeeping Challenges and Prospects”, Global Governance Institute Analysis Paper No. 4/2012, June 2012, Brussels, p. 8. (Novosseloff 2012)

  5. 5.

    Ibid. (Novosseloff 2012)

  6. 6.

    Ibid, p. 9. (Novosseloff 2012)

  7. 7.

    The EU shows its aspiration for joint collaboration with UN as “to promote multilateral solutions to common problems in the framework of the UN” in J. Wouters et al. (eds). 2006. The United Nations and the European Union: An Ever Stronger Partnership. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, p. 1. (Wouters 2006)

  8. 8.

    Tardy, T. 2009. “UN-EU Relations in Military Crisis Management: Institutionalisation and Key Constraints,” Studia Diplomatica: The Brussels Journal of International Relations, 62(3), 43–52. (Tardy 2009)

  9. 9.

    Keukeleire, S. and MacNaughtan, J. 2008. The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Keukeleire and MacNaughtan 2008)

  10. 10.

    Press Release: Joint Statement on UN-EU Cooperation in Crisis Management, Council of European Union, Brussels, 7 June 2007. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/EU-UNstatmntoncrsmngmnt.pdf; Accessed on 04/02/2012. (Council of European Union 2007)

  11. 11.

    Ibid. (Council of European Union 2007)

  12. 12.

    Tardy, T. 2009. “UN-EU Relations in Military Crisis Management: Institutionalisation and Key Constraints,” Studia Diplomatica: The Brussels Journal of International Relations, 62(3), p. 61. (Tardy 2009)

  13. 13.

    Novosseloff, A. 2004. EU–UN Partnership in Crisis Management: Developments and Prospects. New York: International Peace Academy. Retrieved 31 May 2010. http://www.ipinst.org/media/pdf/publications/eu_un_partnership.pdf. (Novosseloff 2004)

  14. 14.

    Tardy, T. 2009. “UN-EU Relations in Military Crisis Management: Institutionalisation and Key Constraints,” Studia Diplomatica: The Brussels Journal of International Relations, 62 (3): 62–64. (Tardy 2009)

  15. 15.

    Ibid. (Tardy 2009)

  16. 16.

    Ibid. (Tardy 2009)

  17. 17.

    International Conference, Civil Perspective or Security Strategy: European Development Policy Confronting New Challenges in Foreign Security Policy, Berlin, 23 November 2004. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, 2005.

  18. 18.

    Ibid. Solana declares that “We are now, however, entering a new and dangerous period that raises the possibility of a WMD arms race, especially in the Middle East.”

  19. 19.

    Ibid.

  20. 20.

    Ibid.

  21. 21.

    Ibid. He puts an example of Afghanistan and stated that 90 % of the heroin in Europe comes from Afghanistan where the drugs trade pays for private armies. Most of it distributed through Balkan criminal networks, which are also responsible for some 200,000 of the 700,000 women victims of the sex trade worldwide.

  22. 22.

    Fanta, Emmanuel. Mapping of EU’s Global Cooperation, EU-Grasp Working Paper, Working Paper No. 5, Seventh Framework Programme, February 2010. http://www.eugrasp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/WP05_Mapping_of_EU_Global_Cooperation_01.pdf; Accessed on 20/05/2010. (Fanta 2010)

  23. 23.

    Verbeke, J. 2006. “EU Coordination on UN Security Council Matters” in J. Wouters, F. Hoffmeister, and T. Ruys (eds), The United Nations and the European Union: An Ever Stronger Partnership. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser, pp. 49–60.

  24. 24.

    Fanta, Emmanuel. 2010. Mapping of EU’s Global Cooperation, EU-Grasp Working Paper, Working Paper No. 5, Seventh Framework Programme, February 2010. (Fanta 2010)

  25. 25.

    Ibid. (Fanta 2010)

  26. 26.

    Ibid. (Fanta 2010)

  27. 27.

    Ibid. (Fanta 2010)

  28. 28.

    Ibid. (Fanta 2010)

  29. 29.

    Novosseloff, A. 2004. EU-UN Partnership in Crisis Management: Developments and Prospects. New York: International Peace Academy. Retrieved 31 May 2010, in http://www.ipinst.org/media/pdf/publications/eu_un_partnership.pdf. (Novosseloff 2004)

  30. 30.

    Ibid. (Novosseloff 2004)

  31. 31.

    Ibid. (Novosseloff 2004)

  32. 32.

    As an expert on EU Gown describes “It’s hard to imagine ESDP having got anything like as far as it has without the UN as a partner.” Gown, Richard. 2008. “The EU Still Needs UN Peacekeepers”, The EU Observer. http://euobserver.com/opinion/26183. (Gown 2008)

  33. 33.

    Novosseloff, Alexandra. 2012. “United Nations-European Union Cooperation in the Field of Peacekeeping Challenges and Prospects. Global Governance Institute Analysis Paper No. 4/2012, June 2012, Brussels, p. 22. (Novosseloff 2012)

  34. 34.

    Ibid., p. 22 (Novosseloff 2012)

  35. 35.

    Tardy, T. 2009. UN-EU Relations in Military Crisis Management: Institutionalisation and Key Constraints.Studia Diplomatica: The Brussels Journal of International Relations, 62(3), 48. (Tardy 2009)

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Hussain, M. (2017). UN and EU Cooperation in Global Peace Missions. In: The European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2884-7_6

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