Dix ans de Politique européenne de sécurité et de défense
la gestion des conflits au service du non-choix stratégique ?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.007.003Keywords:
Crisis management, Peacekeeping, European security strategy, CFSP/ESDP (CDSP), European interestAbstract
Ten years from 1999 Helsinki Headline Goal, the European security and defence policy (ESDP) provided the European Union with an in-depth policy for international crisis management and peacekeeping. By developing common capabilities to intervene into crises and conflicts in Europe and beyond, the EU Member States made the choice of autonomy – despite the stricto sensu Defence of Europe has no doubt remained NATO prerogative. Both civil and military, ESDP instruments nevertheless allow a comprehensive action to back the EU diplomacy – as EU peace-support missions since 2003 do suggest : in the Balkans or DR Congo, Aceh Indonesia or in Georgia, Caucasus. Whither ESDP, the European security strategy relies on further leverage: economical, financial, political or normative policies shape a wider EU external action. However, can ESDP be qualified as an instrument for a European foreign policy? Beyond a consensus a minima on the importance of peace, could it entail an instrument that could serve a European interest: a common interest that would need more than a ‘conflict management-dedicated’ ESDP?
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