Ethical issues of CFSP/ESDP in the European borderlands

This workshop is designed to elucidate the ethical consequence of the changes in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) including the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) as a result of the progressive blurring of the internal/external borders and policy objectives. Within this overall objective, the workshop examines the value assumptions underlying traditional CFSP/ESDP objectives including SSR, rule of law and peace building more broadly; and contrasts these assumptions with the value premises underlying JHA that touch on CFSP (particularly counter-terrorism and border management) and that underline the increasing blurring between internal and external security objectives of EU external relations. In addition to a conceptual stock taking, the workshop also discusses the consequences of these potentially conflicting objectives in the field.

The challenge of civil-military relations but also field experiences from the EU’s missions in Bosnia (EUPM), Kosovo (EULEX) and Georgia (EUMM) serve as examples of the consequences of conflicting values within specific policies; and of how policies designed for external interventions (ESDP) engage in internal reform, thereby blurring the internal/external border that formally separates these two objectives.

Program outline:

11:15 - 11:30 Arrival of participants

11:30 -13:00
Panel 1: Values Chair: J. Peter Burgess (PRIO/IES) Values in CFSP/ESDP – towards a conceptual approach (Prof. Dr. Eva Gross, IES) The EU and the rule of law (Dr. Isabelle Ioannides, VU Amsterdam) Values in JHA (Dr. Xiana Barros, EUI Florence)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30
Panel 2: Implementation Chair: Eva Gross (IES) SSR and Development (Dr. Ursula Schroeder, FU Berlin) The challenge of civil-military relations (Prof. Susan Penksa, Westmont /IES) Experiences from the field: the case of EUPM (Mr. Tobias Flessenkemper, EUPM)

15:30 End of Seminar

Confirmed contributing experts include:

• Dr. Xiana Barros, EUI
  
• J. Peter Burgess, PRIO/IES
  
• Mr. Tobias Flessenkemper, EUPM
  
• Prof. Dr. Eva Gross, IES
  
• Dr. Isabelle Ioannides, Free University Amsterdam
  
• Prof. Dr. Susan Penksa, Westmont College/ IES
  
• Dr. Ursula Schroeder, Free University Berlin
  
  

Please register for the workshop by sending an email to:  mark.de.clerck@vub.ac.be