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    Strategy by Stealth? The Development of EUInternal and External Security Strategies

    Ursula C. Schroeder

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    Strategy by Stealth? The Development of EU Internal and External SecurityStrategies

    URSULA C. SCHROEDER

    Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Free University Berlin, Germany

    ABSTRACT   Despite lively debates about the institutional development of the European securityarchitecture, the larger question of the strategic aims it should serve has received less attention.This chapter serves to mitigate this lack. It asks how the EU developed its strategic choices in thesecurity field. Comparing the emergence of both internal and external security strategies, thechapter argues that the process has been capability-driven and not strategy-led, resulting in a‘capability–strategy’ mismatch. As a result of this strategic void at the heart of the Europeansecurity project, actors within several policy arenas in the complex EU architecture have beenable to develop different – and sometimes conflicting – strategic ends: counter-terrorism, humansecurity, common defence, crime-fighting and stability. Particularly in areas where the EU’sJustice and Home Affairs (JHA) and Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) agendas

    overlap, the chapter finds that EU actors follow diverging strategic ends. The chapter finallyassesses the effects of this strategy-building process ‘by stealth’ rather than ‘by design’, and concludes that the incremental development of EU security strategies has led to the emergence of  fault lines in the EU’s security policies.

    KEY   WORDS: Grand Strategy, external security, internal security, EU Security Strategy,internal–external security nexus

    Introduction1

    Ten years after the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and the EU’sJustice and Home Affairs (JHA) policy were launched, security issues have become

    an integral part of the European Union’s policy concerns. This rapid creation of 

    European internal and external security institutions has generated a large and lively

    community of researchers engaged in assessing the European Union’s first steps in

    the security field. Strikingly though, most studies remain limited to analysing the

    development of the EU’s institutional architecture and its internal and external

    Correspondence Address:   Ursula C. Schroeder, Free University Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political

    Science, Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Ihnestr. 22, 14195

    Berlin, Germany.Email: [email protected]

    Perspectives on European Politics and Society

    Vol. 10, No. 4, 486–505, December 2009

    ISSN 1570-5854 Print/1568-0258 Online    2009 Taylor & Francis

    http://www.informaworld.com

    DOI: 10.1080/15705850903314783

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    security capabilities (see, e.g. Howorth, 2003; Monar, 2006; Nowak, 2006). Far less

    attention has been paid to the goals and strategic aims these new capabilities serve.

    Some research deals with the ESDP’s specific political and strategic aims (see Biscop,

    2004; Duke, 2004) and the emergence of an EU-wide strategic culture (see Meyer,2005; Matlary, 2006). Most studies focus on the formulation of the second-pillar

    ‘European Security Strategy’ (Council of the European Union, 2003), rather than

    assessing security in a more comprehensive fashion. European internal and external

    security interests and aims are therefore still debated in isolation from each other and

    current research mirrors the traditional divide between internal and external security

    in the European system of states. Yet, complex and increasingly salient security

    issues, such as transnational terrorism and organized crime, as well as instability and

    conflicts caused by failing and weak statehood, traverse the divide between a state’s

    external environment and its domestic affairs. Whether the ongoing blurring of the

    divide between internal and external security challenges has had an effect onEuropean security concepts and strategies remains an open question.

    Complementing the analytical scope of current research, this article asks how and

    to what end the EU has developed its internal and external security arms: In what

    scenarios is the European Union willing to use its internal and external security

    capabilities? How does it cope with the increasing blurring of the divide between

    internal and external security challenges? And, lastly, do its security strategies

    sufficiently address the complexities of the new European security environment?

    The answers the article gives to those questions are less straightforward than one

    could expect. It argues that the development of EU security strategies has been

    peculiar in that its strategic priorities emerged by stealth, rather than by design. In a

    turn-around of traditional expectations of policy design (see DeLeon, 1999), EU

    internal and external security capabilities emerged before EU member states had

    finished discussing the ends these capabilities and institutions should serve. The

    chapter outlines how this counter-intuitive development became possible and

    discusses its effects.

    The article first traces the parallel development of EU security capabilities and

    strategic concepts. The eventually adopted security strategies have retained their

    low-profile status as concept papers, instead of turning into the fully-fledged strategic

    documents that we know from national political arenas. In its second part, the article

    discusses the question of how the outlined specific relationship of overarching

    strategic guidance and institutional structures has affected the development of EUsecurity policies. It finds that this strategy-building process ‘by stealth’ rather than

    ‘by design’ has both positive and negative effects. As a result of the strategic void at

    the heart of the European security project, actors within several policy arenas in

    the complex EU architecture have been able to develop different – yet sometimes

    conflicting – strategic ends: counter-terrorism, human security, crime-fighting and

    stabilization. By-passing highly contentious political debates on the aims of 

    European security policies, the sometimes incremental development of EU security

    goals by a variety of JHA and Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) actors

    enabled the emergence of a broad range of EU security strategies. At the same time,

    these strategies have developed in a parallel and fragmented process, leading to theemergence of fault lines in the EU’s security policies at which conflicts are likely to

    erupt.

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    Security Strategies: Changes in Function and Scope

    The politics of strategy making in Europe have a peculiar twist. Instead of being

    the result of a top-down and hierarchical process, security strategies emergedthrough processes of ‘muddling through’ (Lindblom, 1959) and incremental

    strategy-development by a variety of actors. Diverging from traditional national

    understandings of the role and function of a security strategy for security policies,

    strategy development has lagged behind the institutionalization of the European

    security architecture. At the same time, it has remained a relatively technical process

    without much exposure to public debates. In the national political arenas, security

    strategies have traditionally fulfilled a clearer set of aims, as the following discussion

    of the purposes of strategy shows.

    What is a Security Strategy? 

    In the national security arenas, security strategies or ‘grand strategies’ have

    traditionally been military in nature. Outlining the political purposes of warfare,

    military strategy has been defined as ‘the art of distributing and applying military

    means to fulfil the ends of policy’ (Liddell Hart, 1991, p. 321). In an alternative

    conception, strategy is defined as the ‘bridge that relates military power to political

    purpose’ and as ‘the use that is made of force and the threat of force for the ends of 

     policy’ (Gray, 1999, p. 17, emphasis in original; see also Strachan, 2005). These

    adaptations of Clausewitzian thought understand strategy as the organizing

    principle for the larger political objectives of the use of force in warfare. Drawing

    on these definitions, but using them in a wider sense outside the exclusively military

    sphere, the article understands grand strategy as a plan of action that applies specific

    means to larger objectives. In relation to foreign and security policy, strategy

    therefore links the use of economic, military or diplomatic power to specific political

    ends and foreign policy objectives (see, further, Kennedy, 1991).

    National security strategies follow similar patterns in outlining the longer-term

    purposes and aims of a state’s security policies. Setting out a state’s understanding of 

    its specific security and threat environment first, most strategies follow this up with

    an outline of its vital political, military and economic interests at stake. Thus setting

    the overall framework of strategic interests, strategies then define specific security

    policies in distinct fields, comment on the nature of the state’s relationship withother major players in the international system of states, and outline the specific

    missions of the armed forces of a state. Finally, national security strategies often

    comment on the general force structure and procurement decisions necessary to fulfil

    the outlined missions. In the internal security field, the development of clear-cut

    strategies is rarer. Instead, policy development often takes the form of action plans

    or frameworks that respond to new security challenges.

    On the whole, security strategies specify the security interests of a state and the

    means through which it aims to uphold these interests. They encapsulate a state’s

    understanding of what security is and who the main addressees of security policies

    are. A contested concept par excellence, the specific notion of security employed in asecurity strategy is the outcome of a political struggle in a state over the allocation of 

    a state’s resources and capabilities for a set of specific security goals. Security

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    strategies thus serve as an overarching political framework that legitimizes policy

    choices in the security field. In this understanding, strategy-development is an

    eminently political and often contentious process.

    The Changing Scope of Security Strategies

    The scope of a national security strategy has traditionally been state-centric.

    In realist views widespread during the Cold War, grand strategies focused primarily

    on upholding the military conditions necessary for the survival of a nation-state in a

    potentially hostile international environment. This understanding has changed

    considerably since the end of the Cold War.

    In today’s complex and in parts non-traditional security environment (Kirchner &

    Sperling, 2002; Missiroli, 2006), military might is only one of several means to

    achieve the desired political outcomes embedded in a security strategy. Securitystrategies have therefore started to include a variety of aims and goals outside the

    classical military sphere. Public debates about widening the referent object of 

    security policies – from state security to societal or human security – and a rise in

    non-military security concerns – e.g. environmental, energy or food security – have

    resulted in a broader understanding of security in many security strategies.

    At the same time, the blurring of internal and external security challenges has left a

    mark on current security strategies. While traditional security strategies were

    developed primarily for the realm of defence policy, previously internal security

    concerns, such as terrorism or organized crime, today take pride of place in

    many external security strategies. Several examples showcase the extent of this

    transformation: Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latest US National Security Strategy

    emphasizes its aim to ‘fight and win the war on terror’ and locates the emergence of 

    new security challenges and opportunities in a process of globalization that has

    reached the security field (The White House, 2006). The recent French White Paper

    on Defence similarly places the threat of terrorism front and centre and arrives at the

    conclusion that ‘the separation between internal and external security is fading’

    (Pre ´ sidence de la Re ´ publique Française, 2008). Lastly, the first British national

    security strategy of March 2008 acknowledges the wide-sweeping changes in the

    UK’s strategic outlook:

    In the past, national security was understood as dealing with the protection of the state and its vital interests from attacks by other states . . . Over recent

    decades, our view of national security has broadened to include threats to

    individual citizens and to our way of life. (UK Cabinet Office, 2008, p. 3)

    On the whole, security strategies have changed both their scope and their

    functions: state-centric notions of security have given way to broader ones at the

    same time that their traditional recipes for military operations opened up to include

    a wider set of civilian and military activities. Has this general trend been replicated

    during the process of strategy formulation in the European Union? And how have

    actors in the internal and external security fields proceeded to develop strategicframeworks for their activities? The following pages trace the parallel evolution of 

    the EU’s institutional capacities and political frameworks for its security policies.

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    The Evolution of EU Security Institutions and Capabilities

    As the policy field perhaps most closely linked to national sovereignty and decision

    making, the development of the European security architecture was initially met withmistrust and opposition by many national actors. In itself, its relatively rapid

    institutionalization has therefore been an astonishing development. Yet, this

    development has been driven to a striking extent by technical and institutional,

    rather than political questions. Both in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

    (AFSJ) and in ESDP, strategic questions took a back seat to debates on the practical

    development of internal and external security institutions.

    External Security: ESDP Takes Shape

    Since its beginnings at the Cologne European Council in 1999, progress inestablishing a common ESDP has been swift, despite a variety of political and

    organizational setbacks during the deployment of its first missions. Yet, one

    peculiarity of its development is the nearly exclusive focus on ESDP capabilities and

    institutions by both policy actors and researchers. An overview of the major

    documents published on progress in ESDP since its inception – the biannual EU

    Presidency Reports and the  European Council Conclusions on ESDP  – showcases the

    EU’s ‘capabilities first – strategy second’ approach to ESDP. Those documents

    routinely answer the question of how and when to use the emerging security

    capabilities by pointing to the EU’s commitment ‘to preserve peace and strengthen

    international security in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter’ (see

    Council of the European Union, 1999a). While closely monitoring the ongoing

    processes, the biannual EU progress reports on ESDP focused nearly exclusively on

    improvements in the EU’s institutional architecture and capabilities. In this way, an

    entire institutional architecture was created from scratch early on and, already in

    2001, the European Council in Laeken declared ESDP operational. In the following

    years, the EU continued to pursue its initial path of rapidly creating external security

    capabilities and institutional structures.

    Research-driven analyses similarly discuss the status quo of ESDP in terms of its

    institutional and capacity development. The following issues are seen as particularly

    salient in ESDP development: the institutional fragmentation of EU security

    competences into first-pillar Commission and second-pillar Council activities and theresulting challenges of coordination and coherence (see Gourlay, 2006; Schroeder,

    2007; Kurowska, 2008a); the challenges of capability-development and military force

    generation through the European Capabilities Action Plan (ECAP-)process (see

    Schmitt, 2005); and, finally, issues of operational planning and deployment in a

    variety of individual ESDP missions.

    In sum, discussions on EU crisis management in both research and policy

    circles have remained concerned with the development of external intervention

    and crisis management capabilities from an efficiency-orientated perspective. From

    its very beginning, the institutionalization of the EU security policy field has

    proceeded through the rapid extension of civilian and military capabilities, whileavoiding the more difficult discussion of the strategic goals these capabilities

    should serve.

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    Internal Security: The Rise of Justice and Home Affairs

    In the same year as the ESDP, the EU kick-started the establishment of its JHA policy

    at the European Council in Tampere (see Council of the European Union, 1999b).Developing at least as rapidly as the EU’s external security arm, a variety of JHA

    action plans and programmes mushroomed during the last decade. Indeed, observers

    have argued that by now, a majority of newly launched legislative initiatives in the EU

    originate in the JHA field. Covering the areas of police and judicial cooperation in civil

    and criminal matters, border control and internal free movement, as well as visa and

    asylum policies, JHA has become one of the fastest-growing domains of EU action

    (see Monar, 2006, p. 495). Originally an exclusively intergovernmental cooperation

    framework implemented to compensate the internal security challenges resulting from

    the Schengen agreement on the free movement of European citizens within the Union,

    the Amsterdam Treaty transferred the issues of judicial cooperation in civil matters,immigration and asylum policies to the EU’s first pillar. At the same time, the

    Schengen agreements were incorporated into the EU’s legal system. Developing

    rapidly, EU JHA policies have today turned into a complex mix of legislative

    arrangements that cover all aspects of justice and internal security cooperation.

    What is striking about the rapid institutionalization of this new European system

    of internal security governance is its incremental development (see also den Boer &

    Wallace, 2000). As we will see later, political strategies were remarkably absent in the

    early days of JHA cooperation. Indeed, the development of the EU’s internal

    security system is more a story of incremental approximations of national criminal

     justice systems than one of custom-made strategies. The earliest forms of police and

    intelligence cooperation started out as informal meetings of law enforcement and

    intelligence professionals responding to the rise in terror attacks during the 1970s.

    Already, in 1975, the Rome European Council initiated the loose and intergovern-

    mental TREVI-cooperation (terrorisme,   radicalisme,   extré misme,   vandalisme inter-

    nationaux) as a framework for internal security cooperation. Later, when these

    informal cooperation and information exchange bodies were brought into the EU’s

    legislative framework, their informal nature continued. Unlike in the field of external

    security, these cooperation bodies are not staffed with professional diplomats, but

    instead are drawn from ‘diverse national ministries, forces, and agencies, rooted in

    distinctive state traditions’ (Lavenex & Wallace, 2005, p. 462). As a result of the

    informal roots of internal security cooperation and of the operational demands thatclosely linked cooperation bodies to the everyday needs of internal security

    professionals, the evolution of the EU’s internal security capabilities has remained

    in the shadow of other policy initiatives. Particularly in contrast to ESDP’s relatively

    high media exposure, EU internal security policies have not moved much into the

    limelight. Building mainly on pre-existing forms of professional cooperation, the

    establishment of mutual recognition rules for specific crimes and the creation of a

    variety of databases have remained a largely technical and legalistic affair.

    EU Strategic Frameworks: Better Late than Never?

    Unlike the outlined rapid creation of EU security capabilities, the development of 

    strategic frameworks for the newly developed ESDP and JHA capabilities proceeded

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    at a much slower pace. EU political decision making on security issues has been

    characterized by  ad hoc  and quick fixes to pressing short-term security issues at the

    expense of longer-term strategic action. Mostly procedural and focused on dividing

    competences among EU actors, EU action plans and frameworks were late to arriveon the scene and do not have the status of traditional national security strategies.

    Latecomer to the External Security Field: The European Security Strategy

    In contrast to the widespread attention paid to the sometimes rather technical

    questions of EU capability development, the EU’s strategic ends for the ESDP

    remained vague and limited to the very generic and under-conceptualized notion of 

    ‘crisis management’. Particularly in its early years, EU member states studiously

    avoided potentially contentious strategic choices by deciding on the mandates of 

    future ESDP missions on a lowest common denominator basis. Most missions weredeployed   ad hoc   and to relatively safe and uncontroversial locations, while the

    comparatively more contentious EU military mission to the Democratic Republic of 

    Congo in 2003 (Artemis) remained under the aegis of France as a lead nation. The

    choice for specific EU mission formats frequently followed a logic of feasibility – 

    what the EU was able to do at a given moment in time – rather than a strategic logic

    of what would fit into the overall security concept of the EU (see Kurowska, 2008b

    for a discussion).

    The question to what end the EU created its set of civilian and military capabilities

    has routinely and vaguely been answered by referring to the aims of the UN

    Charter – particularly to its general goal of preserving peace and strengthening

    international security – as well as to the encompassing Petersberg tasks  (see Ortega,

    2005). As its lowest common denominator, ESDP’s aims and tasks have been

    qualified as ‘crisis management’.2 Within this framework, the EU has rapidly

    multiplied its activities and has deployed a series of civilian and military crisis

    management missions across the globe.3 Crisis management tasks have thus been at

    the core of EU policies in the security field since their initiation, although the label

    ‘EU crisis management’ has become a catch-all term without precise definition.

    While it is a commonly used term, observers agree that its ‘meaning has not been

    clearly defined at the EU level’ (Nowak, 2006, p. 16). Somewhat stretching the

    meaning of ‘crisis management’, the ESDP has continued to widen the mandates of 

    its missions by developing civilian ‘priority areas’ in the fields of police reform, ruleof law, civilian administration and civil protection tasks. Yet, while the operational

    focus of ESDP has become rather all encompassing, the strategic agenda remained

    limited to its lowest common denominator understanding.

    In effect, the EU did not have a security strategy at all until late 2003. Yet, has the

    European Security Strategy (ESS) become the strategic ‘saving grace’ of European

    security policies? We hold that not even the adoption of the ESS in December 2003

    changed the strategic outlook of the Union much: the development of a common

    European security policy has remained a mostly capability- rather than strategy-

    driven process.

    Written by a small team within Javier Solana’s Policy Planning Staff, theinvolvement of additional actors in the drafting process was deliberately avoided to

    ensure the coherence of the resulting document. Its content covers a wide variety of 

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    security issues4 and remains vague in its direct policy implications. Although all

    major EU policy documents accept the ESS as a key policy concept for ESDP (see,

    as one example, Council of the European Union, 2004a), its practical impact has

    been limited. In a recent assessment, the former Chief of Staff of the EU MilitaryStaff, Messervy-Whiting, agreed that while the ESS is generally accepted in the EU

    security community as ‘a rough guide for action, it was perhaps not a strategy

    document in the true military sense’ (UK House of Lords, 2008, p. 3). Instead, the

    ESS is widely seen as a statement of principles, rather than as a concrete guide to

    action. Although it has often been compared to the US National Security Strategy

    (see, for example, Berenskoetter, 2005), the ESS in effect has remained a broad

    concept paper rather than a security strategy. This becomes clear when we contrast

    the ESS’ provisions with the previously classical way of defining a ‘grand strategy’ as

    a plan of action that calculates the relationship of specific means to large ends.

    Indeed, the European Security Strategy qualifies neither as a military nor civilianstrategy in the classical sense (see, similarly, Duke, 2004, p. 460; Quille, 2004, p. 425;

    Toje, 2005, p. 119). Although it presents a broad overview of the EU’s new security

    environment and defines three strategic objectives (‘addressing the threats’, ‘building

    security in our neighbourhood’ and fostering ‘an international order based on

    effective multilateralism’), it fails to prioritize its policy objectives. It neither indicates

    conditions for the use of military force or other, civilian, capabilities in the pursuit of 

    specific foreign policy ends. Due to this lack of clear choices on the potential use of 

    EU civilian instruments and military capabilities, the ESS has so far not played a

    crucial role in defining European security interests. It thus remains to be seen

    whether the EU will keep to its ‘narrow, bottom-up, capability-driven, building-

    block approach . . . focused on filling capabilities gaps and refining institutional

    decision-making processes’ (Quille, 2004, p. 432). The Report on the Implementation

    of the ESS completed in December 2008 under the French Presidency continues this

    trend (on the process, see Pullinger, 2007; Ducarme, 2008).

    So far, though, the traditional order of first developing a security strategy and then

    following it through with the aid of specific instruments was turned upside-down

    in the European Union: it first started to develop a set of civilian and military

    capabilities and then decided on how to use it (for a similar assessment, see Bono,

    2002).

    EU Internal Security: Proliferating Road Maps and Action Plans

    The process of strategy development played out somewhat differently in the EU’s

    internal security field. The EU’s first policy framework in the field was initially

    known, somewhat unceremoniously, as the ‘Tampere Programme’ (1999–2004),

    outcome of a special European Council meeting in Tampere in October 1999 on the

    creation of an AFSJ in the European Union. As a result, an elaborate legislative

    system emerged that covers a wide spectrum of judicial and law enforcement

    cooperation. The follow-up ‘Hague Programme’ (2005–2010) further deepened the

    chosen course of EU internal security cooperation and specifically highlighted

    the relevance of common action on immigration and asylum issues alongside theprevention of terrorism. Neither programme can be qualified as a unifying and

    visionary strategic statement of EU interests. Instead, the Tampere and Hague

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    programmes aggregate a number of diverse policy interests,   inter alia   mutual

    recognition of judicial decisions, a common asylum system and cooperation against

    crime and terrorism, under the common roof of ‘Justice, Liberty, and Security’-

    policies. The subsequent ‘Stockholm Programme’, due to be adopted in December2009, looks set to continue this style of strategy development. While the two existing

    programmes remained somewhat unwieldy and were mainly geared at the interests

    and needs of EU security practitioners and lawmakers, their impact and cohesive

    force was considerably higher than the European Security Strategy’s. The European

    Commission routinely translates the EU’s JHA policy priorities into concrete action

    plans and road maps that contain timetables and benchmarks for the adoption and

    implementation of relevant activities. An annual report on the implementation of the

    Tampere and Hague Programmes rounds off the cycle of policy development. This

    report, known as the AFSJ-scoreboard, monitors the adoption of legislative

    measures both at the intra-EU institutional level as well as their adoption atnational level.

    The development of the EU’s ‘Strategy for the external dimension of JHA’ in 2005

    (Council of the European Union, 2005d) also followed a trajectory that emerged

    from the JHA service-level. The strategy links the internal and external aspects of 

    European security and emphasizes the role of internal security for the relationship

    between the EU and its neighbouring states. Focusing on common programmes to

    manage migration flows into the EU and to counter organized crime, terrorism and

    corruption at their roots, the new external dimension of internal security aims to

    improve the EU’s internal security while at the same time supporting the EU’s

    political objectives in its external relations (see Balzacq (2008) for a recent overview).

    Expanding JHA policies outwards, as Pawlak’s contribution in this issue describes

    for the case of transatlantic homeland security cooperation, the European Union has

    externalized its Justice and Home Affairs policies in a bid to counter transnational

    security threats before they spill over into the EU’s territory. This recent ‘external

    dimension of JHA’ is inherently a horizontal and cross-pillar strategy that closely

    links the EU’s internal security and external relations policies. Yet, intriguingly, its

    substance was developed almost exclusively within DG JHA, with only limited

    input by other stakeholders. JHA actors ‘hijacked’ the external JHA strategy and

    effectively limited access of other involved services both in the drafting process and

    during the inter-service consultations (see Pawlak, 2009).

    Finally, ongoing discussions on the third ‘post-Hague Programme’ (2010–2014) inthe so-called ‘Future Group’, an informal group dealing with the future of European

    Home Affairs at ministerial level, have so far preserved both style and content of 

    previous phases of JHA strategy development. Characterized by their informality

    and low public profile, JHA strategists of the Future Group focus principally

    on preserving ‘the ‘‘European model’’ in the area of European Home Affairs by

    balancing mobility, security and privacy’ (Future Group, 2008, p. 3). They further

    stress the need to deal with the growing interdependence of internal and external

    security and to ensure the exchange of JHA-relevant data in ‘European-wide

    information networks’ (Future Group, 2008, p. 3).

    On the whole, this very streamlined process of policy development   qua   actionplans has led to great strides in the emergence of a system of EU internal security

    governance. Overshadowed by discussions on the EU’s external security capabilities,

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    JHA actors have managed to formulate and implement a high number of policy

    initiatives during the past decade. Policy development in the JHA field overall

    approximates a traditional model in which policy programmes are followed up by

    specific implementation strategies and a review process.One major exception to the top-down policy development of EU internal security

    is the EU’s counter-terrorism strategy. In this particular case, the post-9/11 EU

    counter-terrorism Action Plan presented a list of legislative initiatives to enhance

    the EU’s fight against terrorism. Yet, it resembled a laundry list rather than a

    comprehensive strategy and principally highlighted and, in some cases, accelerated

    the development of JHA policies and instruments that had already been in the

    legislative pipeline prior to 9/11 (e.g. the European Arrest Warrant and the Joint

    Investigative Teams, see, further, Schroeder, 2006). In effect, the EU’s 2001 counter-

    terrorism strategy did not qualify as a specific strategy against terrorist activities as

    such, but instead consisted of a range of measures that generally aimed to counterthe insufficient harmonization of member states’ criminal justice and law enforce-

    ment systems. The final adoption of an official EU counter-terrorism strategy in 2005

    also had a symbolic unifying effect at best. As, perhaps, the first Powerpoint-based

    security strategy ever, the EU’s counter-terrorism strategy was created as a set of 

    slides that very briefly outline the general goals of the EU. The new strategy

    presented even less new thinking than the Action Plan, and limited itself to

    summarizing existing goals under a set of four headings (prevent, protect, pursue and

    respond, see Council of the European Union, 2005c). In this case, strategy

    development was again turned on its head: strategy clearly followed existing policies.

    Similar to ESDP, EU counter-terrorism policies developed incrementally.

    Effects of Incremental Strategy Development

    The creation of the EU common security policy has followed a somewhat unusual

    path. Unlike the classical understanding of policy development through a ‘policy

    cycle’ that moves from agenda setting to policy formulation to implementation to

    evaluation (DeLeon, 1999), we have shown that the EU security field developed at

    least partially in reverse. EU actors were keen to avoid conflict about policies that

    intervened too strongly in the domestic affairs of member states by focusing the

    debate on the technicalities and legal issues of security integration. The implementa-

    tion of security policies in some cases preceded the formulation of security strategiesat the EU level, while more general debates about the direction of European internal

    and external security integration were mostly left to a small group of security

    practitioners. What effects does this incremental process of strategy shaping by

    stealth, rather than by design, have on the evolution of overarching security strategies

    for the European Union? The following part shows that this peculiar process of 

    security policy development within the EU has had both enabling and constraining

    effects on the evolution of coherent and comprehensive security policies.

    Enabling Effect: Multiplication of Strategic Ends

    Intriguingly, the outlined strategic ambiguity of the EU has first of all had a positive

    and enabling function on security policy development. Although the EU’s ‘strategic

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    void’ is an often-voiced argument to explain the frequently only slow progress of 

    European-wide security cooperation, this vagueness has been an incentive for a

    dynamic process of policy innovation. As a result, and in contrast to research that

    maintains that the EU has no strategic vision, the article holds that EU actors havedeveloped a variety of different strategic ends and priorities. In effect, we are

    witnessing a hybrid process in which different political actors within the EU decision-

    making process develop the EU’s strategic aims by pushing for specific security

    programmes and goals.

    In the external security field, the relatively large leeway built into EU strategic

    documents has enabled ESDP’s rapid extension of competences from its initial

    military peacekeeping tasks to a range of external stabilization and security sector

    reform tasks. The European Security Strategy’s wide scope contributed to this

    extension, since it left ‘all doors open for potential future missions’ (Hansen, 2006,

    p. 5). As Alyson Bailes (2005, p. 14) also noted, the advantage of the rather generalnature of the ESS is that it has stayed ‘broad-brush enough for all the EU members

    to read their favourite agendas into it’. Hence, despite its not being an immediately

    operational document (see Biscop, 2004, p. 37), the ESS has paved the way for a

    larger debate about the aims and future of the ESDP. Not only has it brought the

    EU’s attempts to formulate a common security policy to the attention of a wider

    audience, it has also effectively specified the EU’s earlier very general focus on

    ‘humanitarian, peacekeeping and peacemaking’-tasks within the Petersberg frame-

    work. Instead, it has focused on the development of a rule-based international order,

    the promotion of good governance and stability in the EU’s neighbouring states and

    the need for comprehensive civilian and military answers to the new dynamics

    threats.

    The EU’s overall strategic outlook in the internal security field has remained

    similarly unspecific: it promotes the broad notion of a European model of internal

    security that balances freedom, security and justice in equal measures. The specific

    shape of this model though has not been widely debated: the idea of a common EU

    AFSJ as enshrined in the Treaty of Amsterdam has remained a projection screen into

    which different policy styles and goals can fit.

    In this hybrid process of strategy development, the encompassing but relatively

    vague internal and external security strategies therefore co-exist with a multitude of 

    more specific but lower-level policy programmes. Developed either as   ad hoc

    solutions to acute challenges, or emerging from operational actors’ interests in betterEU-wide information exchange and cooperation arrangements, several strategic ends

    for the EU’s security policies have emerged in the past decade. The three major goals

    of stabilization, human security and crime fighting emerged in distinct organizational

    fields in the EU. Stabilization is mostly a goal pursued within the ESDP, human

    security stems from actors within the EU’s development assistance programmes,

    and crime-fighting is strongly linked to JHA actors. At the same time, the Treaty

    of Maastricht’s initial wording that one of the objectives of the Union is the

    implementation of a Common Foreign and Security Policy, including the ‘eventual

    framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence’

    (Treaty of Maastricht, Title V, J4), has remained largely unredeemed. EU memberstates have been largely reluctant to discuss the potential defence-dimension of 

    ESDP.5

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    Stabilization and Governance.   The predominant strategic aims of the EU’s external

    security policies are the promotion of stability and well-governed political order in its

    neighbourhood. As a frequent feature of regional strategy papers, the aim of creating

    regional stability and well-governed, sustainable political orders that do not interferein the internal security of the Union pervades European policies towards Africa,

    the Balkans and the Mediterranean states. Most recently summarized in the

    EU’s overarching ‘Neighbourhood Strategy’, already the 1995 Barcelona Declara-

    tion on the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Council of the European Union,

    1995) declared peace, stability and prosperity to be its general objective for the

    Mediterranean basin. The ‘Wider Europe Strategy’ of 2004 – the predecessor to the

    EU’s current neighbourhood policy – similarly aimed to create ‘an enlarged area of 

    political stability and functioning rule of law’ (European Commission, 2003b, p. 3) in

    its neighbourhood. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) itself focuses on

    reinforcing the ‘stability, security and well-being’ (European Commission, 2004, p. 4)of both EU and neighbouring states by promoting a series of governance- and

    stability-orientated measures in the EU’s southern and eastern neighbourhood. It

    envisages a ‘ring of countries, sharing the EU’s fundamental values and objectives,

    drawn into an increasingly close relationship, going beyond co-operation to involve

    a significant measure of economic and political integration’ (European Commission,

    2004, p. 5). The follow-up declaration on strengthening this project again

    emphasized the EU’s ‘vital interest’ in ‘seeing greater economic development and

    stability and better governance in its neighbourhood’ (European Commission,

    2006a, p. 2). The European Commission’s regional strategy for the Horn of Africa is

    another example of a predominantly stability-orientated foreign policy strategy.

    It argues that,

    stability in the Horn of Africa is also strategically crucial for EU security.

    Cross-border dynamics, such as illegal migration and trafficking of arms, drugs

    and refugee flows, are factors contributing to instability and tensions that

    spread throughout the Horn of Africa and beyond, and could even reach the

    EU. (European Commission, 2006b, p. 5)

    The outlined strategic aim of creating stable regional orders in the EU’s

    neighbourhood resonates strongly in the European Security Strategy, which argues

    that the EU should ‘promote a ring of well governed countries’ in its neighbourhood,since ‘the best protection for our security is a world of well-governed democratic

    states’ (Council of the European Union, 2003, pp. 8, 10). The new EU strategy for

    ‘Security Sector Reform’ is one example of how the EU has started to implement its

    interest in fostering a stable, democratic and secure neighbourhood. The strategy

    builds on the understanding that well-governed and democratically controlled

    security sectors contribute to political stability in a region or country. The EU’s

    strategy for reforming security institutions therefore aims to contribute to an

    ‘accountable, effective and efficient’ security system that ‘can be a force for peace and

    stability, fostering democracy and promoting local and regional stability’ (Council of 

    the European Union, 2005b, p. 4). Further, actors within the Council GeneralSecretariat have developed concepts for civilian administration, police and rule of 

    law missions that aim to strengthen the capacities and institutions of states and

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    regions in crisis. The rapid development of civilian security assistance programmes

    and the adoption of stability-orientated mission mandates point to the rising

    relevance of the strategic aim of stabilization.

    Development and Human Security.   As the single largest provider of development

    aid in the world, the EU’s primary objective in this field is the eradication of 

    poverty in the context of sustainable development. At the same time, the EU has

    also taken on board the conviction in development circles that development is not

    possible without the security of a population. This newly found security– 

    development nexus holds that the negative effects of insecurity on development

    are so high that security policies have to be a necessary part of developmental

    policies. Promoted by actors within the development community, a vocal group

    of civil society experts has therefore started to promote the strategic aim of 

    ‘human security’ for the European Union. In contrast to traditional forms of state or national security, the concept of human security refers to ‘freedom for

    individuals from basic insecurities caused by gross human rights violations’

    (Study Group on Europe’s Security Capabilities, 2004, p. 5). In a report

    commissioned by Javier Solana, the ‘Study Group on Europe’s Security

    Capabilities’ (2004, p. 5) advanced the idea that the EU should develop a

    ‘Human Security Doctrine’ for its external relations. An epistemic community

    (Haas, 1992, p. 3)   par excellence, this group is a network of policy practitioners

    and academics sharing a set of normative beliefs and a common policy enterprise:

    to advance human security as ‘a proactive strategic narrative’ and an ‘enduring

    and dynamic organizing frame for security action’ (Kaldor et al., 2007, p. 273,

    see, further, Matlary, 2006) for the European Union.

    Several EU policy programmes, particularly in the European Commission, have

    used human security language to describe their goals. For instance, the Gothenburg

    ‘programme on the prevention of violent conflict’ argued that ‘the international

    community has a political and moral responsibility to act to avoid the human

    suffering and the destruction of resources caused by violent conflicts’ (Council of the

    European Union, 2001, p. 1). Similarly, the European Commission’s ‘Communica-

    tion on Governance and Development’ held in 2003 that,

    the concept of security is increasingly understood not just in terms of security

    of the state, but also embraces the broad notion of human security, whichinvolves the ability to live in freedom, peace and safety. Security must be seen

    both as a national interest and as part of the individual rights. (European

    Commission, 2003a, p. 8)

    In 2009, the Commission will publish an Action Plan on Security and

    Development that aims to make the relatively abstract notion of a nexus between

    security and development policies more operational and that enables the EU to

    move towards the closer horizontal integration of security and development

    issues.

    A first practical outcome of the new focus on security issues in Communityassistance programmes has been an increased focus on comprehensive security sector

    reforms, as enshrined in the ‘Community Concept for Security Sector Reform’

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    (European Commission, 2006c). The concept enables the Commission to address

    governance deficits in security sectors world-wide and is aimed at fostering the

    underlying peaceful conditions necessary for sustainable development.

    Crime Fighting.   Lastly, the aim of fighting crime, be it in the forms of terrorism or

    trafficking, has become increasingly relevant for the EU. Initially limited to

    traditional forms of police and judicial cooperation within the EU’s borders,

    strategies to fight serious and organized crime have long moved beyond the

    traditional domestic sphere of EU JHA policies. Initiated by high-level actors within

    the EU JHA policy field,6 police practitioners at the work-level were also influential

    in pushing for the new ‘external JHA’-policy frame (see Bigo, 1996, 2000;

    Guiraudon, 2000). As a result, EU foreign and security policies today routinely

    incorporate counter-crime policies into their mandates and also the ESS mentions

    the new external dimension of the threat of organized crime to the EU. Sincethen, the adoption of a whole series of strategy papers and policy programmes

    has placed the external dimension of internal security firmly on the EU’s security

    agenda.

    In late 2004, the ‘Hague Programme’ – the main EU strategy document in the area

    of JHA – called for the development of a strategy covering all external aspects of the

    EU’s policy on freedom, security and justice (Council of the European Union,

    2004b, p. 3). Complementing this top-down decision to develop an external JHA

    strategy, the operational-level ‘EU Chiefs of Police’ Council working group around

    the same time adopted the ‘Warnsveld Declaration’ (Council of the European

    Union, 2004c). In this, high-level European police practitioners argued that

    organized crime presented a major obstacle for the consolidation of law and order

    in former crisis areas and additionally had negative effects on the internal security of 

    the European Union. The declaration strongly promoted the development of 

    synergies between ESDP and JHA activities. Predominantly pushed for by actors

    within its third legislative pillar, the EU finally adopted an overarching ‘Strategy

    for the External Dimension of JHA’ in 2005. This strategy focuses on third pillar

    police and justice policies, but also stresses the necessity of ESDP missions tackling

    ‘issues such as organised criminality and corruption’ (Council of the European

    Union, 2005d, p. 4). In a similar vein, the European Neighbourhood Policy and the

    recent ‘Vienna Declaration on Security Partnerships’ (Council of the European

    Union, 2006c) emphasized the increased internal security dimension in the relationsbetween the EU and its neighbours. Early attempts to implement this new strategic

    aim were outlined in a series of ‘action-orientated’ papers on EU internal security

    support to the Western Balkans, on EU counter-terrorism activities in North Africa

    and on EU assistance to counter-drugs and counter-trafficking policies in

    Afghanistan.

    Further, several currently deployed civilian and military ESDP missions have

    incorporated crime-fighting tasks into their mandates.7 In particular, the EU’s police

    missions in the Balkans play a very visible role in pursuing the EU’s external JHA

    strategy. In Bosnia (Council of the European Union, 2006b), in Macedonia (Council

    of the European Union, 2005a) and in the near future in Kosovo (Zehetner, 2007),ESDP missions train and support local police forces and reform the national

    criminal justice systems. Mandated both to establish ‘European style’ democratic

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    policing (see Collantes Celador, 2005) and to assist host countries in their fight

    against organized crime, these ESDP missions have strayed far from the traditional

    understanding of crisis management as the deployment of military peacekeeping

    forces to states in acute crisis situations.

    Constraining Effect: Fragmented and Conflicting Strategies

    As we have seen, the EU’s security agenda is not of a piece, but rather emerged in a

    hybrid fashion ‘by stealth’ through the interventions of a series of actors both at the

    EU’s political and service levels. Because of this incremental and capacity-driven

    strategic development, a multitude of EU documents and programmes pursue

    different strategic aims at any one point in time. The negative implications of this are

    obvious: strategic vagueness or indecision should lead to the development of less

    than efficient policy solutions than the implementation of policies that follow clearlylaid out strategic choices. In the discussed case, this holds partially true: the ‘sad fact

    that the EU has no strategic vision in foreign affairs’ (Bet-El, 2006, p. 14) has led to

    slow and cumbersome  ad hoc decisions on the individual circumstances under which

    the EU deployed its civilian and military capabilities. The recent development of the

    EU battlegroups8 illustrates the prevalence of operational-level over strategic

    choices: they do not contribute to a specific strategic framework and have therefore

    been characterized as a ‘concept in a search of a strategy’ (Gowan, 2005, p. 17).

    In the internal security field, the EU’s slow progress in coming to an agreement on

    a comprehensive approach to terrorism similarly impeded the formulation of 

    innovative counter-terrorism policies and led to a lowest-common-denominator

    approach.

    A further drawback clearly is the potential for conflict between proliferating

    strategic aims that cannot always be easily integrated into a single ‘comprehensive’

    strategy. The aims of fostering stable governance structures, of fighting crime, and of 

    promoting human security do not always go hand in hand (see Gibert and Mounier,

    this issue for examples). Especially the recent development of a ‘crime-fighting’-goal

    in the EU’s foreign security assistance policies collides with its more encompassing

    human security strategies. Following the European Security Strategy’s assessment

    that transnational security challenges can have direct and adverse effects on the

    European internal security landscape, the EU has promoted the new ‘External

    Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs’ as one of its central priorities in itsexternal relations. Whereas, before, crime fighting clearly fell into the competence

    sphere of third-pillar internal security actors, this convergence of internal and

    external security policies has led the EU to place particular emphasis on counter-

    terrorist and counter-organized crime capacity building in its external police

    and judicial reform programmes. Particularly the Western Balkans and Southern

    Mediterranean regions have come under increasing pressure to enhance their

    cooperation with the Union’s fight against organized crime and terrorism (see

    Council of the European Union, 2006a, 2006c). In these cases, the EU is torn

    between its external policy goal of fostering democratic reforms and human security

    and between pursuing its quest for domestic security through fighting crime andstabilizing its neighbouring ‘ring of friends’. Particularly the crime-fighting approach

    with its sometimes rather one-sided interest in enhancing the   effectiveness   of 

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    internal security bodies in third countries has ‘generally not (been) positive’

    (Ball, 2004; see, similarly, Lavenex, 2004) for improving their transparency and

    democratic  accountability. As a result, the human security goal of developing well-

    governed security institutions that are able to provide a high level of security to thecitizens of a recipient country collides with the EU’s interest in diminishing the threat

    of organized crime to its territory. Hence, although both policy goals could in

    principle be complementary, they have so far created a fault line cutting across the

    EU’s security policies.

    Conclusion

    EU actors have authored a long series of strategic documents: the EU’s Strategy for

    the External Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs; the EU Counter-Terrorism

    Strategy, the Commission’s Development Strategy; the EU NeighbourhoodStrategy; the Vienna Declaration on Security Partnerships; the Gothenburg Pro-

    gramme on the Prevention of Violent Conflict; the Tampere, Hague and Stockholm

    Programmes. Yet, none of the mentioned documents has so far been able to

    comprehensively answer the essential question of any strategic document in the

    field of security policy: what is to be protected from whom and with what means?

    Not even the ESS unequivocally prioritizes the EU’s security interests. Instead, the

    article found that a mostly capability-driven process of policy development has led

    to the emergence of several, sometimes contradictory, strategic aims in different EU

    policy arenas. Depending on the institutional location of the strategic claims made,

    the EU should primarily focus on fighting crime, on providing for the security of 

    individual human beings in crisis regions, on creating a stable neighbourhood for the

    EU or on defending the EU against external threats. The comprehensive nature of 

    the ESS and the Tampere/Hague Programmes did not alleviate this lack of clear

    priorities: quite the contrary, they left the scope of the EU’s security policies wide

    open.

    A closer look at recent policy programmes and mission mandates nevertheless

    shows the EU’s increasing emphasis on the external promotion of security, stability

    and order as one of its major strategic aims. Both the stability-orientated European

    neighbourhood strategy and the strategy for the external dimension of Justice and

    Home Affairs exemplify this trend to externalize the EU’s domestic security interests.

    In line with the European Security Strategy’s aim of fostering a ‘ring of friends’around the EU, the two strategic aims of fostering stability and fighting crime in the

    neighbourhood have all but eclipsed classical crisis management as outlined in

    the Petersberg tasks. In contrast to these aims, the dimension of ‘human security’

    appears less relevant in current EU security policy documents. Although the

    European Commission routinely refers to human security as a strategic end in its

    developmental and external relations policies, ESDP missions do not specifically

    emphasize human security in their mandates. To the contrary, recent ESDP mission

    mandates have started to shift their focus away from essentially ‘human security’-

    related mandates – for instance, human rights training for judicial and law

    enforcement actors – to capacity building and enhancing the efficiency of lawenforcement actors in the fields of border policing or fighting organized crime.

    The new mandate of the EU Police Mission to Bosnia is a case in point. 9

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    Finally, going back to the overall research interest of this issue in the politics of 

    security policies, the most intriguing finding of this chapter is the highly apolitical

    process of formulating high-level security strategies in the European Union. To

    avoid conflict among member states about the ends of the Union’s internal andexternal security policies, top-level strategies (i.e. the European Security Strategy

    and the Tampere/Hague Programmes) remained deliberately vague. While the ESS

    remained broad-brush enough to fit a variety of security interests, the internal

    security strategies remained devoid of larger visions and mostly technical in their

    approach to internal security cooperation within the Union. Despite the eminently

    political nature of strategic questions, the politics of European security policies

    took place at the working level of security policy making, instead of at the highest

    political level. In effect, overarching EU security strategies legitimate the member

    states’ overall policy choices, while their substance and institutional design has

    been shaped at the operational level. In sometimes fierce battles over competencesand influence, EU actors within the Council Secretariat and the European

    Commission as well as national actors have competed for sovereignty of 

    interpretation in questions of security policies. Turning the classical process of 

    security strategy development on its head, political conflicts over future strategies

    took place at the level of everyday policy making, instead of at the level of grand

    strategy.

    Notes

    1 An earlier version of this article was presented at the Final Conference of the UACES Research Group

    on European Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management Policies in Brussels, July 2007. I thank David

    Law, Jolyon Howorth and the conveners and participants of the conference for their valuable discussion

    and insightful comments. The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Volkswagen

    Foundation in the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme.2 Crisis management generally refers to all activities that attempt to ‘respond to immediate crisis situations

    in order to prevent the use of violence or, at least, to prevent further escalation, either in a vertical

    (deepening of the conflict) or horizontal way (spreading of the conflict to other regions)’ (Schneckener,

    2002, p. 3).3 For an updated list, see  www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.asp?id¼268&lang¼de.4 As the main threats facing the European Union, it lists terrorism, proliferation of WMD, regional

    conflicts, state failure and organized crime.5 Adding to the defence dimension, the Lisbon Treaty includes a mutual defence provision in Article 27

    that commits member states to an ‘obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power’ if a

    member state is the victim of armed aggression on its territory.6 See Lavenex (2006) for a discussion of how immigration ministers pushed for the externalization of 

    domestic migration agendas.7 One example is the mandate of the EUFOR Althea mission in Bosnia: outside its main mandate of 

    providing deterrence and continued compliance with the Dayton Agreement, one of its key supporting

    tasks is to provide the security environment in which the police can act against organized criminal

    networks.8 The Battlegroup (BG) is a specific form of the EU’s rapid response elements. It is a rapidly deployable,

    coherent and multinational battalion-sized force (+1500 troops), capable of stand-alone operations, or

    for the initial phase of larger operations.9 The second, refocused, EU Police Mission (EUPM) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, deployed since 2006,

    supports the Bosnian police reform process and specifically focuses on consolidating local capacity and

    regional cooperation in the fight against major and organized crime.

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