برند اتحادیه اروپا در صلح سازی: عمل، همه چیز است ۲۰۱۹
The European Union’s Brand of Peacebuilding: Acting is Everything 2019

“Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis of the role of EU’speace missions I have read so far. It starts with the ‘action for the sake of action’ logicof CSDP development and offers a new interpretation of what CSDP could be, if justpeace was part of its political agenda. A rare gem in European studies.” — Xymena Kurowska, Associate Professor of International Relations at CentralEuropean University, Hungary
“This impressive research monograph provides a critical account of EUs peacemissions by asking what these missions offer, how peace is built, and whom thesemissions serve. To address these important questions, Birgit Poopuu develops andemploys an original and sophisticated discursive framework of telling and acting toconduct an in-depth investigation of EU peace missions Artemis in the DRC, EUFORAlthea in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and EULEX in Kosovo. This book’s ground-breakingexploration advances the study of the EU as a peacebuilder.” — Annika Björkdahl, Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, and Editor in Chief of Cooperation and Conflict This book critically explores the European Union’s brand of peacebuilding in the form of its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). A contextually close reading of EU missions – using the fluid categories of telling and acting, stressing the dialogical ways of being, and taking heed of the concept of just peace as a particular guide to building peace – allows the book to tap into the specific meanings the EU has of peace, the ways in which it imagines its relationships with its varied partners, and perhaps most controversially, the way that being/becoming a global actor has been front and center of the CSDP. The analysis focuses on three core missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. One of the recurring themes that emerges from the empirical chapters is the significance attached to acting, and that acting per se constitutes success of a mission, without much thought given to its substance, or the outcome of the EU’s engagement.The imaginative force of this book rests on developing a set of context-sensitive analytical tools, encapsulated in the dialogical model of identity formation and the dynamic approach to analysing identity through telling and acting.