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Due to various institutional adaptations over time, the European Union (EU) has gradually obtained stronger means to coordinate the – often – divergent preferences of its member states in foreign policy and to act with one voice. But how can we assess this cohesiveness, ‘effectiveness’ or performance of the EU as a global actor, in empirical terms? This chapter focuses on one area in which EU outcome and consequently, performance, can be highly relevant: coordination of EU activities in the framework of UN peacekeeping activities and operations. More specifically, this chapter aims to offer a ‘snapshot’ of EU member state homogeneity and coordination in a number of peacekeeping resolutions as agreed upon at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and United Nations Security Council (UNSC). By exploring UNGA roll call votes of EU member states on peacekeeping missions and a study of the preference alignment of selected cases of peacekeeping resolutions voted on in the UNSC, this chapter shows that coordination between the different EU member states has strongly increased over time, partially in parallel with increased intra-EU coordination in foreign policy. |
