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7 Conclusion
Abstract
The concluding chapter summarises the findings and further reflects on the institutional and political challenges to the EU’s foreign and security policy in Bosnia. It reviews the impact of institutionalisation on the EU’s foreign and security policy, the politics of coherence and effectiveness and the overall contribution of EU foreign policy to conflict resolution in Bosnia. The case study of Bosnia provides evidence to support three key findings. First, that institutions have had a crucial impact on levels of coherence and effectiveness over time. Second, that contrary to rationalist assumptions about the purported efficiency of institutions, the increasing CFSP institutionalisation has not done away with problems of coherence and effectiveness and in some cases it has raised new ones. Unintended consequences, path dependency and obstacles to the institutionalisation of learning can be blamed in this regard. Third, the concluding chapter also provides evidence that intergovernmental, bureaucratic and local political contestation have played a key role in the formulation and implementation of a European foreign and security policy.
Abstract
The concluding chapter summarises the findings and further reflects on the institutional and political challenges to the EU’s foreign and security policy in Bosnia. It reviews the impact of institutionalisation on the EU’s foreign and security policy, the politics of coherence and effectiveness and the overall contribution of EU foreign policy to conflict resolution in Bosnia. The case study of Bosnia provides evidence to support three key findings. First, that institutions have had a crucial impact on levels of coherence and effectiveness over time. Second, that contrary to rationalist assumptions about the purported efficiency of institutions, the increasing CFSP institutionalisation has not done away with problems of coherence and effectiveness and in some cases it has raised new ones. Unintended consequences, path dependency and obstacles to the institutionalisation of learning can be blamed in this regard. Third, the concluding chapter also provides evidence that intergovernmental, bureaucratic and local political contestation have played a key role in the formulation and implementation of a European foreign and security policy.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of tables, figures and boxes viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The institutionalisation of EU foreign and security policy 21
- 3 The politics of coherence and effectiveness 42
- 4 The ‘hour of Europe’? Struggling for peace in the Balkans 64
- 5 The EU’s intervention in the aftermath of the war 94
- 6 CSDP in Bosnia 125
- 7 Conclusion 163
- Appendix 178
- Bilbiography 181
- Index 199
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of tables, figures and boxes viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The institutionalisation of EU foreign and security policy 21
- 3 The politics of coherence and effectiveness 42
- 4 The ‘hour of Europe’? Struggling for peace in the Balkans 64
- 5 The EU’s intervention in the aftermath of the war 94
- 6 CSDP in Bosnia 125
- 7 Conclusion 163
- Appendix 178
- Bilbiography 181
- Index 199
