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The strategic effect of European Union operations
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The European Union is certainly active through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP): witness the large number of past and present military and civilian operations, across the globe. But have these operations generated strategic effect? Have they contributed to achieving long-term European policy objectives?
in European Strategy, 4 Oct. 2010.
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