Engaging Regional Partners for Effective Conflict Resolution: Problems and Prospects of the EU’s Strategic Partnerships in Asia. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 5 No. 15, July 2008

Baroowa, Saponti. (2008) Engaging Regional Partners for Effective Conflict Resolution: Problems and Prospects of the EU’s Strategic Partnerships in Asia. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 5 No. 15, July 2008. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

[From the Introduction]. From its initiation at the 1998 Franco-British Summit at St-Malo and its formalisation and institutionalisation at the Cologne and Helsinki Councils in 1999 to its 2005 monitoring mission in Aceh, Indonesia, the EU’s ESDP has made considerable progress. In fact ESDP’s fast institutional growth is seen as ‘remarkable in a system where institutional change often proceeds at a glacial pace’.(1) Of course one may bear in mind that ESDP operations started on a small scale and with limited duration, and many of ESDP procedures still remain relatively untested.(2) Nevertheless, the ESDP’s acquiring an operational capability in 2003, no matter in whatever small measure, marked a significant shift from the general nature of the development of CFSP which have ‘often proceeded on the basis of rhetorical declarations followed by hesitant and inadequate implementation’.(3)

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