EU’S GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: A DATABASE OF CSDP MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CIVILIAN MISSIONS WORLDWIDE Version 2.0 (2017)

The EU’s Global Engagement database was developed by a research team composed of Ulrich Krotz, Katerina Wright and Danilo Di Mauro within the Europe in the World
programme of the Global Governance Programme. It provides a
comprehensive overview of EU military operations and civilian missions
under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). <br><br>The primary purpose
of the database is to fill the gap in existing empirical knowledge by
providing the first centralized, comprehensive, and accurate database on
the EU’s military operations and civilian missions worldwide. The
database also provides some indicators of the level of the EU’s
engagement globally.
The version 2.0 of the database contains detailed information on all
of the 35 military operations and civilian missions initiated from the
first CSDP operation in January 2003 to December 2017. <br><br>All of the 73
variables recorded for each of the 35 (completed or ongoing) operations
have been updated through the end of December 2017.
Select variables include: the number and percentage of EU member
states involved, the duration of deployment, the number of troops or
personnel deployed by each EU member state, the goals of each operation
and mission, the geographic area of deployment, the type and intensity
of the conflict in the area of intervention, the costs, and a combined
index of EU engagement.
Within the Codebook, in addition to variable descriptions and
statistics, we also include fact-sheets for every mission and operation,
along with 92 figures describing the findings.<br>