Publikasjoner

Protecting Civilians While Fighting a War in Somalia – Drawing Lessons from Afghanistan

CIVCAP 2012: Laying Concrete Foundations

Russia – A BRIC Country?

Linking Regional Security and Human Rights in ASEAN

Linking Regional Security and Human Rights in the African Union

Contextualizing peacebuilding activities to local circumstances – Liberian case-study

Great Power, Arctic Power: Russia’s engagement in the High North

Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams (OMLT): The Norwegian Army and their Afghan partners

East European diasporas, migration and cosmopolitanism

The EU's performance with and within NATO: assessing objectives, outcomes and organisational practices

The chapter analyses the EU’s performance as a security actor in the context of NATO, both in institutional cooperation with NATO, and when acting as a bloc of member states within NATO. Departing from a definition of “performance” as the ability to achieve pre-set objectives (effectiveness) in an efficient, relevant and viable manner, we observe that the EU’s performance in the context of NATO remains limited. This could be seen as a reflection of underlying political divergences between the two organisations, hampering systematic and formalised intra-institutional cooperation, as well as effective cooperation between the EU member states in NATO. More importantly, it has resulted in the emergence of informal and ad hoc EU practices in the context of EU-NATO cooperation as well as parallel EU and NATO practices