後冷戰時期衝突性質及規模的變遷，特別是處理巴爾幹衝突的經驗促使歐盟會員國決定在歐洲安全暨防衛政策的架構下改善歐盟危機反應能力。隨著軍事和非軍事能力的同時發展，歐盟是獨一無二的國際組織，可以使用多項工具執行衝突預防、危機處理及衝突後和平維護等任務。尤其是非軍事能力的設立除符合新的安全概念，更突顯歐盟「非軍事強權」的角色。雖然歐盟在非軍事工具的發展上已有相當進展，並有效執行13項非軍事任務，但仍必須加強協調整合以提升其非軍事危機處理的成效。本文探討歐盟非軍事工具的意義、內容、問題及目前發展重點，並強調歐盟未來將扮演「輸出安全」的「和平強權」角色。

The change in the nature and scale of conflicts in the post Cold-War period, and especially the experience of facing the conflicts in the Balkans influenced the EU Member States' decision to improve the EU crisis response capacity under the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). With the parallel development of military and civilian capabilities the EU is the only international Organization that can use a variety of instruments to respond the whole spectrum of crisis management tasks. In particular, the establishment of civilian capabilities accords not only with the new security concept, but proves the EU to be a “civilian power”. The EU has made much progress in the development of civilian instruments and deployed successfully thirteen civilian operations. However, a more coherent and integrated approach is needed in order to improve its effectiveness in civilian crisis management. This paper focuses on analyses on the civilian aspects of EU crisis management and emphasizes that the EU will play a “peace power” to “export security” in the future.