OUVRAGE : J. Schmidt, The European Union and the Use of Force

Julia SCHMIDT

In The European Union and the Use of Force, Julia Schmidt examines the development and activities of the EU as an emerging international military actor. The author offers a comprehensive analysis of the conditions under which the EU can engage in military crisis management operations from the perspective of EU law as well as from the perspective of public international law, with a particular emphasis on the EU’s relationship with the United Nations and the EU’s relationship with its Member States in the context of the use of force. Throughout the monograph, questions of European integration in the sphere of the common security and defence policy as well as the EU’s place and role within the international community are put into focus. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction. The European Union as an Emerging International Military Actor

Chapter 1. The European Union and the Use of Force: a European Perspective

Chapter 2. The EU, Its Member States and the Use of Force: Emerging Signs of European Integration in the Common Security and Defence Policy?

Chapter 3. The Place of the European Union as a Military Actor in the International Legal Order: Chapters VII and VIII of the UN Charter and the Development of the Responsibility to Protect

Chapter 4. The European Union-United Nations Partnership in Practice

Chapter 5. The European Union’s Relationship with UN Security Council Resolutions Authorising the Use of Force: a European Perspective

Chapter 6. The Implications of Silence in the Context of the Use of Force

Chapter 7. Responsibility and Accountability of the European Union for Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Context of European Military Crisis Management Operations

General Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Julia SCHMIDT, The European Union and the Use of Force, Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2020 (344 pp.)