We predict that 2015 will mark the beginning of a European ascent in peace and security interventions globally.  As NATO winds down its operations in Afghanistan, many European defense ministries will be searching for new ways to employ their troops and resources.  Moreover, if tradition holds, the next Secretary General of the United Nations will hail from a European state.  This confluence of factors on the “supply side” of peace operations will most likely entail an enhanced European role in interventions to promote peace and security.  In keeping with the conference’s theme of opposing tendencies within the EU, we see tensions within European States and the EU about whether to expend resources to intervene given the pressures of austerity, and how to intervene given the limitations of resources, past efficacy, and legitimacy.  Our papers focus on: 1. French policy, which has been a driver of European international intervention; 2. the role of European norms in the rise of peace enforcement doctrine and practice; 3. the simultaneity of effects of intervention in multiple civil wars; and 4. the record of EU interventions in general and more specifically in the cases of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Our panel combines members from different domains (government, the think tank world, and academia), at different ranks, and from different continents, in order to analyze questions of policy, theory, and action in European international interventions.