TY - THES ID - 134600452 TI - The local turn in the EU foreign policy. How does the local turn in peacekeeping affect the European foreign policy? AU - Somers, Bert AU - Colli, Francesca AU - KU Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen. Opleiding Master of International Politics (Leuven) PY - 2020 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134600452 AB - This research paper aims to understand how the EU approaches the concept of local ownership as part of its CSDP. The discourse however remains relatively vague. How does the EU approach the problems on the ground in regard of local ownership? How does the EU interact with the local actors and do they involve local actors in peacebuilding? Important to answer these questions is to assess the EU actions and relations on the ground. The EU relations towards the other actors are probably the most important aspect in trying to determine their policy. This includes the approach towards the national and local government but also the dealing with different ethnic and religious conflicts. The research can be divided into three parts. First, a thorough conceptualization of local ownership is made in order make it researchable. The concept will be categorized according to two dimensions: actors and amount of involvement. Second, the rhetoric and policy of the EU will be analyzed in order to understand the EU stance on local ownership. Third, a case study will be conducted in order to understand the difference between the EU policy and the practice on the ground. The two EU CSDP mission in Mali (EUTM and EUCAP-SAHEL) will be analyzed using the conceptualization made in the beginning of the research. At the end the differences between EU policy and EU practice will be key to understand how the EU wants approaches local ownership as part of its Common Security and Defense Policy. ER -