The EU and Multilateral Crisis Management: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The paper deals with the new actorness of the EU as a peacekeeper and supporter of the overstreched regime of UN-peaceoperations. It questions the added value of the new security governor “EU” in the classic field of security policy and analyses the inter-organisational governance of EU and UN as partners in crisis management. The case studies are the operations in the DR Congo, namely MONUC (since 1999), Artemis (2003) and EUFOR DR Congo (2006).