Eva Magdalena Stambøl

Working paper on implementation of EU crisis response in Mali

This paper offers a critical review of the EUTM and EUCAP in Mali, arguing that this is another example of international interventions that may be well-intended, but that end up producing very mixed results on the ground. One reason for this is the gaps between intentions and implementation and between...

EU initiatives along the ‘cocaine routes’ to Europe: Fighting drug trafficking and terrorism by proxy?

While broad scholarly attention has been devoted to the securitization of migration in the ′EU’s relations with neighboring countries, less attention has been given to the ways in which the EU is partnering with third countries to fight other central ′‘unconventional security threats′’, such as terrorism...

Best practices in EU crisis response and policy implementation

This report has two aims. First, to take stock of how the Europen External Action Sercvice (EEAS) and the Commission have institutionalized lessons-learned mechanism. Second, to discuss the extent to which these mechanisms and practices incorporate the EU’s ambitions for a ‘conflict-sensitive’ and ‘comprehensive’...

Understanding the EU’s crisis response toolbox and decision-making processes

Heads of States Can Change the Course of International Drugs Policy in 2016: Where does the EU stand?

A quick overview of the past ten to fifteen years developments in drugs policies in Europe reveals two diverging trends: a public health and social policy track on the one hand, and a security policy track on the other. While as the future of drugs policy as a political field in its own right is being...

Governing Cocaine Supply and Organized Crime from Latin America and the Caribbean: The Changing Security Logics in European Union External Policy

The logics of the European Union’s policy and practices against narcotic drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have undergone a substantial shift the past decade: from development to security. Based on an empirical mapping of the EU’s drug-related projects in LAC, this article argues that an...

We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union

Nothing about the recent Paris or Copenhagen terrorist attacks was totally unexpected. Indeed, they were the sort of thing that security apparatuses in Europe had been preparing to have to deal with. Although security responses to terrorism are traditionally considered a quintessential national sovereignty...

Menneskerettigheter som brekkstang i internasjonal narkotikapolitikk

Menneskerettigheter og narkotikakontroll har lenge fungert som to separate og isolerte spor i FN-systemet. De siste årene har imidlertid dette skillet blitt krafig kritisert av en stadig mer profesjonell, innflytelsesrik og verdensomspennende narkotikapolitisk reformbevegelse. Bevegelsen hevder at strukturene...