Les dynamiques identitaires et conflictuelles de l'échange interprofessionnel : le cas de la coopération entre soldats et gendarmes français au Kosovo

This research focuses on the frameworks and forms of cooperation between the military and police forces that work to keep the peace and law and order in Kosovo. In reality, the scenario maintained in Kosovo by Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council is not so much that of keeping the peace, but more ambitiously of its enforcement. This objective implies the reconstruction of the institutions that must ensure democratic transition and, at the very least, a change of regime. It also establishes that the collective safety missions will be gradually transferred from the army and the international police, the strong heterogeneity of the skills of the international police officers and, finally, a complex and often conflicting distribution of the military and police responsibilities in terms of ways to conceive the maintenance of law and order. That is why, when the member states of the European Union decided to acquire, for 2003, a targeted police force of 5,000, stemming from and provided by Union-15, it is interesting to study, in an overall reflection on matters concerning security and the maintenance of the order in Europe, the terms of cooperation between international military (NATO) and police (UN) forces who are then substituted for the failing local police forces. Finally, the research gives itself the goal to exam the transformations of military identity in such situations.