Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense

Abstract

The previous chapter traced the delegation of functions to the EU bureaucracies in the CSDP. This chapter comprehensively describes their role in the CSDP policy process. It provides the basis for the case study analyses in the remaining chapters, which focus on the military operation Althea in Bosnia, the monitoring mission in Aceh (Indonesia), the military operation in Chad and the Central African Republic, and the rule of law mission in Kosovo. While this chapter reflects the state of the art in terms of the CSDP policy process, it will make mention of previous structures as well to provide sufficient background information. After all, the planning of the military operation Althea, for example, started almost a decade ago and the EU bureaucracies looked a bit different then. The starting point is the agenda-setting phase of civilian and military missions. The chapter then moves on to the planning phase. It concludes with the implementation. The chapter uses practical examples from the four case studies to illustrate the process.