This book analyses the present European Union (EU) approach to state-building, both in
policy and operation. It offers a review of the literature on peace-building, EU state-building …

This article presents an introduction to the special volume, titled The European Union (EU)
and the Security Sector Reform Practices: Challenges of Implementation, by framing the …

In the 20 years since the end of the Cold War, the European Union (EU) has gradually
emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of security, aiming to safeguard European …

To account for this outcome, the book provides an original perspective, which draws from
theories of institutional learning, policy evolution and the recent “practice turn” in …

Abstract Security Sector Reform (SSR) is critical in post-conflict settings, particularly when it
comes to the reform of judicial systems, intelligence services, police, correctional systems …

This article evaluates the European Union (EU)'s border strategy for the Western Balkans. It
identifies an increasing tension between, on the one hand, the Union's use of its border …

In a growing number of policy areas international organizations can no longer work in
complete isolation from each other. Increasingly, institutions rely on coordinated interaction …

Since the 9 of the 11 events, the US and the European Union (EU) have been involved in
Afghanistan in order to fight the Taliban and reinstitute Afghan authority and legitimacy …

This paper asserts that there is a tension between traditional development paradigms and
the post-Cold War leitmotif of democratisation which is as yet unresolved within the present …

The United Nations (UN) mission in Kosovo was one of the first instances of an international
mission that combined governance, peacebuilding and Security Sector Reform. It was …