EU global strategy and human security : rethinking approaches to conflict / edited by Mary Kaldor, Iavor Rangelov and Sabine Selchow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assessing Mogherini's "The European Union in a changing global environment" from within a "reflexive modern" world / Sabine Selchow -- Review of the EU policy for Ukraine / Tymofiy Mylovanov, Yuriy Zhukov and Yuriy Gorodnichenko -- EU in the Western Balkans : hybrid development, hybrid security and hybrid justice / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova and Elisa Randazzo -- EU Syria engagement from a human security perspective / Rim Turkmani -- EU policies in the DR Congo : misaligned ambitions / Valerie Arnould and Koen Vlassenroot -- A human security strategy for the European Union in the Horn of Africa / Alex de Waal and Rachel Ibreck -- Europe's failed "fight" against irregular migration / Ruben Andersson -- EU approaches to justice in conflict and transition / Iavor Rangelov, Marika Theros and Nataša Kandic -- Human security and sanctions, from security to governance : strengthening EU capacities and involving the locals / Francesco Giumelli -- Cybersecurity : a case for a European approach / Genevieve Schmeder and Emmanuel Darmois -- Private partnerships, public peace : the role of the private sector in second generation human security / Mary Martin -- The EU global strategy and contemporary conflicts : how much second generation human security is possible? / Mary Kaldor and Sabine Selchow -- From hybrid peace to human security : rethinking EU strategy towards conflict : the Berlin report of the Human Security Study Group.

"This volume examines the EU's Global Strategy in relation to human security approaches to conflict. Contemporary conflicts are best understood as a social condition in which armed groups mobilise sectarian and fundamentalist sentiments and construct a predatory economy through which they enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary citizens. This volume provides a timely contribution to debates over the role of the EU on the global stage and its contribution to peace and security, at a time when these discussions are reinvigorated by the adoption of the EU Global Strategy. It discusses the significance of the Strategic Review and the Global Strategy for the re-articulation of EU conflict prevention, crisis management, peacebuilding, and development policies in the next few years. It also addresses the key issues facing EU security in the 21st century, including the conflicts in Ukraine, Libya and Syria, border security, cyber-security and the role of the private security sector. The book concludes by proposing that the EU adopts a second-generation human security approach to conflicts, as an alternative to geopolitics or the 'War on Terror', taking forward the principles of human security and adapting them to 21st-century realities. This book will be of interest to students of human security, European foreign and security policy, peace and conflict studies, global governance and IR in general"-- Provided by pblisher.