ABSTRACT
The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is fundamental to the European Union's (EU) ambitions in the field of global conflict management. Yet ensuring that CSDP has the coherence and capabilities required and that it is integrated into wider EU conflict management policy remains a largely unrealised goal. A great deal of analysis has been focused on examining coherence across the EU, specifically between the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and CSDP in what was Pillar II and the EU's other policy tools in what were formally Pillars I and III. However, less focus has been directed at analysing coherence within CFSP and, more specifically, within CSDP.
