Managing Declining Power: The Visegrad Group's Defence Cooperation within the Context of EU Defence and Security Integration
Journal: Digital Repository (National Repository of Grey Literature)
Year: 2020

This paper examines the Visegrád Group's (V4) defence cooperation within the wider context of EU defence cooperation. Analysis centres around explaining the V4's place in these broader developments and how EU policies have interacted with the V4's attempts at increasing their defence cooperation. Defence cooperation initiatives are conceptualised as an effort to manage and reverse declining European military power. The analysis follows a narrative form, theoretically informed by neoclassical rea