Koivula examines the discursive space related to the use of military force by the European Union (EU). By examining the EU's relationship to its use of military force during the course of its history and by demonstrating that the contemporary discursive space of the EU military dimension is incoherent in nature and contains inherent contradictions, he seeks to answer the related question of whether extreme forms of military enforcement, for example killing, is appropriate for the EU.
Deals with the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). In this book, the argues that even though the European Union uses military force extremely rarely, a discursive tension related to military force persists in the continuum of diverse perceptions of the Common Security and Defence Policy.
