After the end of the Cold War, the EU re-assessed the security challenges faced by Europe. It is widely believed that the main threats be those non-traditional ones which could neither be solved by military actions nor prevented by improving internal security systems. Therefore, the EU has adopted a pro-intervention approach. It has taken various measures to reinforce its capability to act within the Common Security and Defence Policy and to improve the coherence of its external policy instruments, as a result of which, the EU and its member states were able to use both military and non-military instruments in the Libya crisis to pursue their own interests. <<