EU’s External Policy: Interactions between the CFCP, the CSDP and Migration Policy in the MENA region.

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Supervisors

Delreux, Tom

Faculty

Institut d'études européennes Saint-Louis

Degree label

Master de spécialisation interdisciplinaire en études européennes (horaire décalé)

Abstract

The consistent implementation of the EU’s foreign policy has consistently been recognised as one of the most persistent and complex obstacles to European integration. However, this challenge becomes even more pronounced in the realm of crisis management for migration, as multiple diplomatic, security, and migration governance instruments are used concurrently in the same geopolitical arena, without a unified leadership structure. The Treaty of Maastricht established the CFSP in 1993 in the wake of the end of the Cold War and the Balkan conflicts. Its purpose was to give Europe the ability to independently prevent and manage conflicts; an ambition that the subsequent and equally gradual development of the CSDP was supposed to operationalise through credible military and civilian crisis management capabilities. . This latter development was anchored in the 1998 Saint-Malo declaration, which was institutionalised through successive European Councils. Neither instrument was created with the intent of shaping external migration policies, which followed their own independent, supranational path, driven by a unique institutional logic. This study aims to explore the interplay between these partially overlapping. Yet institutionnally disconnected policy domains. It draws on a qualitative comparative approach, using three contrasting case studies (The Maghreb, Syria, and Afghanistan) and building on the existing body of scholarship on policy coherence, securitisation,and EU external governance.