Este artículo evalúa la utilidad que aporta adoptar el concepto de seguridad humana para analizar... more Este artículo evalúa la utilidad que aporta adoptar el concepto de seguridad humana para analizar la situación de las sociedades de los Balcanes Occidentales afectadas por el desmembramiento de la antigua Yugoslavia. Aun aceptando que el argumento de la falta de consenso sobre la definición de seguridad humana dificulta su estudio, este trabajo sostiene que incorporar una perspectiva influenciada por este concepto ayuda a entender dos aspectos específicos. Por un lado, la forma que adoptó la respuesta inter- nacional durante la década de los noventa y principios del siglo XXI, y por otro, la complejidad de los problemas y retos que continúan obstaculizando el progreso hacia la estabilidad política y socioeconómica de esta región. Al mismo tiempo, este trabajo ilustra con ejemplos procedentes de la reforma policial en Bosnia, que más allá de la identificación de problemas, todavía es difícil llevar el concepto de seguridad humana a la formulación de políticas que puedan solventar la compleja situación existente en esta región
Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) police/rule of law missions in the Western Balkans are ... more Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) police/rule of law missions in the Western Balkans are increasingly guided by externally imposed normative agendas that respond primarily to EU internal security needs rather than functional imperatives or local realities. In line with these needs, EU police reform efforts tend to prioritise effectiveness and crime fighting over longer term democratic policing and good governance reforms. In practice this means that police reform initiatives are technocratically oriented, yet value ridden fitting EU security concerns and needs. As a result, the police reform process can be—and often is—disconnected from the political and socio-economic reforms necessary for long term stability and sustainable peace. Police assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been shaped by a determined albeit questionable focus on organised crime and
corruption. The focus of EU police reform in Macedonia on primarily crime-fighting aspects of policing has compromised the functioning of the Macedonian police. Similarly, the politics of (non)-recognition of Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence
and the intrusiveness of EULEX Kosovo’s executive mandate contravene meeting local challenges.
This article evaluates the European Union (EU)’s border strategy for the Western Balkans. It iden... more This article evaluates the European Union (EU)’s border strategy for the Western Balkans. It identifies an increasing tension between, on the one hand, the Union’s use of its border strategy to foster the long-term stabilization of the countries of the Western Balkans and their future integration into the EU and, on the other hand, the use of border management as an instrument to ensure its own internal security. This tension can be broken down into a threefold contradiction inbuilt into the EU’s strategy: short-term vs. long-term objectives; a security vs. development focus and interventionism vs. local ownership approaches. These contradictions, aggravated by local and regional political, economic and security challenges, can explain existing shortcomings in the EU’s border interventions in the Western Balkans.
... DOI: 10.1080/13533310500074184 Gemma Collantes Celador a ... View all notes. Bosnia and Herze... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13533310500074184 Gemma Collantes Celador a ... View all notes. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is one of the many examples that confirm this trend.2 2. For an overview of other international-led police reform missions see A. Hansen, 'From Congo to Kosovo ...
Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internationally-supervised statebuildi... more Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internationally-supervised statebuilding process. It is one of the four key conditions to move the country closer to its European future. Against this background the article analyses the role that the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) plays in preparing Bosnian police agencies for this challenge. Using as guiding tools some of the key elements of the Mission’s leitmotif—local ownership, European police standards—the article comes to the conclusion that EUPM has introduced much needed reforms but these have been overshadowed, among other things, by the police restructuring process and its unnecessary politicisation of “European police standards/practices” to fit a model of statehood not shared by all local stakeholders.
Este artículo evalúa la utilidad que aporta adoptar el concepto de seguridad humana para analizar... more Este artículo evalúa la utilidad que aporta adoptar el concepto de seguridad humana para analizar la situación de las sociedades de los Balcanes Occidentales afectadas por el desmembramiento de la antigua Yugoslavia. Aun aceptando que el argumento de la falta de consenso sobre la definición de seguridad humana dificulta su estudio, este trabajo sostiene que incorporar una perspectiva influenciada por este concepto ayuda a entender dos aspectos específicos. Por un lado, la forma que adoptó la respuesta inter- nacional durante la década de los noventa y principios del siglo XXI, y por otro, la complejidad de los problemas y retos que continúan obstaculizando el progreso hacia la estabilidad política y socioeconómica de esta región. Al mismo tiempo, este trabajo ilustra con ejemplos procedentes de la reforma policial en Bosnia, que más allá de la identificación de problemas, todavía es difícil llevar el concepto de seguridad humana a la formulación de políticas que puedan solventar la compleja situación existente en esta región
Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) police/rule of law missions in the Western Balkans are ... more Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) police/rule of law missions in the Western Balkans are increasingly guided by externally imposed normative agendas that respond primarily to EU internal security needs rather than functional imperatives or local realities. In line with these needs, EU police reform efforts tend to prioritise effectiveness and crime fighting over longer term democratic policing and good governance reforms. In practice this means that police reform initiatives are technocratically oriented, yet value ridden fitting EU security concerns and needs. As a result, the police reform process can be—and often is—disconnected from the political and socio-economic reforms necessary for long term stability and sustainable peace. Police assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been shaped by a determined albeit questionable focus on organised crime and
corruption. The focus of EU police reform in Macedonia on primarily crime-fighting aspects of policing has compromised the functioning of the Macedonian police. Similarly, the politics of (non)-recognition of Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence
and the intrusiveness of EULEX Kosovo’s executive mandate contravene meeting local challenges.
This article evaluates the European Union (EU)’s border strategy for the Western Balkans. It iden... more This article evaluates the European Union (EU)’s border strategy for the Western Balkans. It identifies an increasing tension between, on the one hand, the Union’s use of its border strategy to foster the long-term stabilization of the countries of the Western Balkans and their future integration into the EU and, on the other hand, the use of border management as an instrument to ensure its own internal security. This tension can be broken down into a threefold contradiction inbuilt into the EU’s strategy: short-term vs. long-term objectives; a security vs. development focus and interventionism vs. local ownership approaches. These contradictions, aggravated by local and regional political, economic and security challenges, can explain existing shortcomings in the EU’s border interventions in the Western Balkans.
... DOI: 10.1080/13533310500074184 Gemma Collantes Celador a ... View all notes. Bosnia and Herze... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13533310500074184 Gemma Collantes Celador a ... View all notes. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is one of the many examples that confirm this trend.2 2. For an overview of other international-led police reform missions see A. Hansen, 'From Congo to Kosovo ...
Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internationally-supervised statebuildi... more Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internationally-supervised statebuilding process. It is one of the four key conditions to move the country closer to its European future. Against this background the article analyses the role that the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) plays in preparing Bosnian police agencies for this challenge. Using as guiding tools some of the key elements of the Mission’s leitmotif—local ownership, European police standards—the article comes to the conclusion that EUPM has introduced much needed reforms but these have been overshadowed, among other things, by the police restructuring process and its unnecessary politicisation of “European police standards/practices” to fit a model of statehood not shared by all local stakeholders.
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Yugoslavia. Aun aceptando que el argumento de la falta de consenso sobre la definición de seguridad humana dificulta su estudio, este trabajo sostiene que incorporar una perspectiva influenciada por este concepto ayuda a entender dos aspectos específicos. Por un lado, la forma que adoptó la respuesta inter-
nacional durante la década de los noventa y principios del siglo XXI, y por otro, la complejidad de los problemas y retos que continúan obstaculizando el progreso hacia la estabilidad política y socioeconómica de esta región. Al mismo tiempo, este trabajo ilustra con ejemplos procedentes de la reforma policial en
Bosnia, que más allá de la identificación de problemas, todavía es difícil llevar el concepto de seguridad humana a la formulación de políticas que puedan solventar la compleja situación existente en esta región
corruption. The focus of EU police reform in Macedonia on primarily crime-fighting aspects of policing has compromised the functioning of the Macedonian police. Similarly, the politics of (non)-recognition of Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence
and the intrusiveness of EULEX Kosovo’s executive mandate contravene meeting local challenges.
Yugoslavia. Aun aceptando que el argumento de la falta de consenso sobre la definición de seguridad humana dificulta su estudio, este trabajo sostiene que incorporar una perspectiva influenciada por este concepto ayuda a entender dos aspectos específicos. Por un lado, la forma que adoptó la respuesta inter-
nacional durante la década de los noventa y principios del siglo XXI, y por otro, la complejidad de los problemas y retos que continúan obstaculizando el progreso hacia la estabilidad política y socioeconómica de esta región. Al mismo tiempo, este trabajo ilustra con ejemplos procedentes de la reforma policial en
Bosnia, que más allá de la identificación de problemas, todavía es difícil llevar el concepto de seguridad humana a la formulación de políticas que puedan solventar la compleja situación existente en esta región
corruption. The focus of EU police reform in Macedonia on primarily crime-fighting aspects of policing has compromised the functioning of the Macedonian police. Similarly, the politics of (non)-recognition of Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence
and the intrusiveness of EULEX Kosovo’s executive mandate contravene meeting local challenges.