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The Common Security and Defence Policy: Normative Power by Military Means? The case of operation EUNAVFORmed SOPHIA

Jönsson, Pia LU (2020) STVM25 20201
Department of Political Science
Abstract
In the year 2015, the European Union launched the military naval operation EUNAVFORmed SOPHIA through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the European Union as an international security actor in relation to its use of military means. This thesis investigates the claim that introducing military means into the CSDP toolbox would cause the EU power profile to shift towards a traditional military power (MPE) as opposed to the normative power (NPE). The theoretical framework is based on two theoretical perspectives on the power profile of the European Union, Normative Power Europe and Military Power Europe, from which the analytical tool of the study is derived. This... (More)
In the year 2015, the European Union launched the military naval operation EUNAVFORmed SOPHIA through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the European Union as an international security actor in relation to its use of military means. This thesis investigates the claim that introducing military means into the CSDP toolbox would cause the EU power profile to shift towards a traditional military power (MPE) as opposed to the normative power (NPE). The theoretical framework is based on two theoretical perspectives on the power profile of the European Union, Normative Power Europe and Military Power Europe, from which the analytical tool of the study is derived. This single-case study conducts a critical assessment of the Union’s use of military means in response to the Mediterranean crisis through a deductive qualitative content analysis primarily of documents, press releases and news articles published on the EEAS Sophia webpage. Through examining the priorities, justification and external authorization of Sophia, the study concludes a primarily military power profile can be ascribed to the EU’s use of military means in this particular case. (Less)
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author
Jönsson, Pia LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM25 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
CSDP, Normative Power Europe, Military Power Europe, European External Action, EUNAVFORmed SOPHIA
language
English
id
9009456
date added to LUP
2020-08-14 12:33:46
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2020-08-14 12:33:46
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  abstract     = {{In the year 2015, the European Union launched the military naval operation EUNAVFORmed SOPHIA through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the European Union as an international security actor in relation to its use of military means. This thesis investigates the claim that introducing military means into the CSDP toolbox would cause the EU power profile to shift towards a traditional military power (MPE) as opposed to the normative power (NPE). The theoretical framework is based on two theoretical perspectives on the power profile of the European Union, Normative Power Europe and Military Power Europe, from which the analytical tool of the study is derived. This single-case study conducts a critical assessment of the Union’s use of military means in response to the Mediterranean crisis through a deductive qualitative content analysis primarily of documents, press releases and news articles published on the EEAS Sophia webpage. Through examining the priorities, justification and external authorization of Sophia, the study concludes a primarily military power profile can be ascribed to the EU’s use of military means in this particular case.}},
  author       = {{Jönsson, Pia}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Common Security and Defence Policy: Normative Power by Military Means? The case of operation EUNAVFORmed SOPHIA}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}