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Hassan, Oz (2020) The evolution of the European Union’s failed approach to Afghanistan. European Security, 29 (1). pp. 74-95. doi:10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773
Abstract
This article provides a genealogical account of European actorness in Afghanistan. It argues that European agreement towards facilitating modernisation and development in Afghanistan was initiated with aid and trade, evolving into humanitarianism in the 1990s, and reconstruction and democratisation in the 2000s. The European Union has had a positive impact on Afghanistan, focusing on humanitarianism, but its multilateral and programme level approach to reconstruction and democratisation has failed to meet the EU’s stated objectives. By promoting the flawed “Bonn Model”, the EU is proportionally culpable for failed international attempts to reconstruct Afghanistan; even though the United States has been the primary international actor. Drawing a series of broader lessons, such as tensions between Atlantic solidarity and European integration, and the limitations of the European crisis management, the article demonstrates how European policy has been shaped by crises inside Afghanistan and the larger geopolitical crises these have generated. These have contemporary importance as history suggests that as the US withdraws its commitment to Afghanistan, the EU will have a very significant role in attempting to fill a humanitarian vacuum.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | European Union -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan, Humanitarianism, Europe -- Relations -- Afghanistan, Afghanistan -- Relations -- Europe, National security -- European Union countries, Democracy -- Afghanistan | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Security | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0966-2839 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 74-95 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Security on 21/10/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09662839.2019.1679773 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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