ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the historical and discursive development of the European Security and Defence Policy from the early 1990s to mid-2010s. In fact, what people seem to have in light of the high-level policy statements on Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is an interplay between the strong and apparently enduring European narratives of Europe as a Peace Project, as a Third Force, as a Civilian or Normative Power. The treaty introduced a high representative for European Union (EU) foreign policy who, together with the presidents of the Council and the European Commission, puts a name and a face on European Union (EU) policy for the outside world. If the European Security Strategy (ESS) was in many respects ambiguous regarding the use of armed forces by the EU, a more detailed and explicit discussion of the tasks of European armed forces is provided by the European Defence Agency's (EDA) Long-Term Vision (LTV).
