Mémoire
| Résumé : | In the realm of the new security threat that the EU has been called to face with the new security reality formed by the invasion if Russia in Ukraine, the revision of the EU CSDP missions and actions in the region has been deemed imperative. EU’s role in the Eastern Neighborhood has been important and its presence in the region has been continuous but the effectiveness of the missions it has deployed specifically in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine needs to be analyzed to conceptualize its role as a security actor. The aim of this thesis is to answer the question of how effective the CSDP civilian missions the EU has deployed in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine have been so that a conclusion can be drawn on its actorness as a security provider in the eastern borders. Using theoretical approaches of international relations theories, the thesis will discuss the realistic approach which states that the EU can’t be characterized as a security actor as it lacks military powers and constructivism that states that the European Union constitutes a security actor in the region as it poses means of power such as civilian and economic mechanisms. Lastly the thesis will provide an interpretation of the decisions of action in the area in the prism of the theory of evaluation of success. It will draw the conclusion that the extent of the effectiveness of the missions has indeed appended a remarkable role to the EU as a security actor. Nevertheless, there are still protracted conflicts in the countries that pose, more than ever before significant threats to the security and stabilization across the eastern region and risk to diminish its role as a security “provider”. |
