The EU’s maritime operations and the future of European Security: learning from operations Atalanta and Sophia
The EU’s maritime operations and the future of European Security: learning from operations Atalanta and Sophia
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欧盟的海上行动和欧洲安全的未来：从亚特兰大和索菲亚行动中学习
DOI：
10.1057/s41295-018-0131-4
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
S. Reich
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作者：
P. Dombrowski;S. Reich
在欧洲安全和防务政策的辩论中，海上作战的研究通常被忽视，而这场辩论往往集中在政治意愿、官僚主义的不一致性和军事互操作性上。尽管如此，海上行动在过去十年中发挥了越来越重要的作用，值得进行更深入的分析。首先，它们为确定政策优先事项随时间的动态变化提供了一个宝贵的视角。第二，它们提出了欧盟能够和不能实现布鲁塞尔领导人宣称的“全球参与者”角色的条件。最后，它们也说明了欧盟在外部挑战方面的主导紧张关系：言论和行为之间，与北约的制度性关系，以及各国政府之间不断变化的政治优先事项。在这篇文章中，我们比较了欧盟的两个主要海上行动。第一个是阿塔兰特，是与北约和非欧盟国家合作在索马里沿海打击海盗的多边行动。第二个是索菲亚，已经从搜索和救援发展到阻止地中海的移民流动。在几个结论中，我们认为，海上行动的演变表明，欧盟的言论之间的差距越来越大，有一个全球战略和其区域业务安全的重点。
The study of maritime operations has generally been neglected in a European Security and Defense Policy debate that often focuses on political will, bureaucratic incoherence, and military interoperability. Nonetheless, maritime operations have played an increasingly important role in the last decade and deserve deeper analysis. First, they provide a valuable optic for identifying a dynamic change in policy priorities over time. Second, they suggest the conditions under which the EU can and cannot fulfill the Brussels leadership’s avowed role as a “global player.” Finally, they also illustrate the EU’s presiding tensions when it comes to external challenges: between rhetoric and behavior, institutionally with NATO, and of the shifting political priorities among national governments. In this article, we compare the EU’s two major maritime operations. The first, Atalanta, is a counter-piracy multilateral operation in cooperation with NATO and non-EU states off the Somali coast. The second, Sophia, has evolved from search and rescue to thwarting migrant flows in the Mediterranean. Among several conclusions, we suggest that the evolution of maritime operations demonstrates an increasing gap—between the EU’s rhetoric of having a global strategy and its regional operational security focus.