@article{31d72504d2e3485e83200721a5f9ea27,
title = "Civil–military synergies in EU crisis response and peacebuilding: a framework for analysis",
abstract = "Responding to New Wars, international organizations have faced challenges in increasing synergies between civilian and military instruments. This paper analyses civil-military synergies as a logical framework outcome of coordination and asks to what degree activities of civil-military coordination in EU external action has led to synergies on the ground. It provides a conceptual framework tackling three distinct conceptual challenges; (1) providing a typology of interfaces to articulate civil-military research scope(s), (2) delimiting the “civil-military”, and (3) defining civil-military synergy vis-{\'a}-vis coordination. The framework is applied in a case study of EU engagements under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) focusing on EU{\textquoteright}s operational level during the execution phase. It finds that EU{\textquoteright}s siloed command structure hampers coordination between instruments to a degree where civil-military synergies are more common with external partners than between CSDP instruments, and that open mandates to coordinate with “relevant actors” are vulnerable to personal interpretations.",
keywords = "Civil-military coordination, civil-military synergy, Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), European Union (EU), peacekeeping, peacebuilding, Civil-military coordination, civil-military synergy, Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), European Union (EU), peacekeeping, peacebuilding",
author = "Zartsdahl, {Peter Horne}",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1080/23340460.2018.1532769",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "197--213",
journal = "Global Affairs",
issn = "2334-0460",
publisher = "the European International Studies Association",
number = "2-3",
}