Order-Maintenance in Kosovo: The EU as an Increasingly Comprehensive Police Actor?

Stephen Rozee

Order-Maintenance in Kosovo: The EU as an Increasingly Comprehensive Police Actor?

Stephen Rozee

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This article presents an examination of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) with a focus on the policing area of order-maintenance. It argues that while much scholarly attention has been given to the EU’s role in crime-fighting, less has been said about its increasing involvement with order-maintenance, which is a central element of policing. EULEX, which is the EU’s largest civilian mission to date, has been involved with a range of executive tasks such as riot control as well as the reforming and training of local police in Kosovo; this article argues that the Mission’s activities contribute to all of the functions that comprise the policing area of order-maintenance. The EU’s increasingly comprehensive involvement with policing activities is shown to significantly contribute to the Union’s ambitions as a security actor. However, the case of EULEX demonstrates that only some aspects of the EU’s aims as an actor in policing have been fully achieved in practice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-114
Journal	European Foreign Affairs Review
Volume	20
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Order-Maintenance in Kosovo: The EU as an Increasingly Comprehensive Police Actor?

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