Stratified Security Communities: Transatlantic Distrust and Identity Divergence
Journal: ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University)
Year: 2021

With mounting pressure by the United States directly and through their strategic shift and slow abdication of leadership towards Asia and away from the transatlantic community, European states have growing incentive to cooperate more strongly and integrate their defense and security efforts. The absence of such a trend of integration points to internal barriers to growing cooperation countering the external dynamic. Utilizing the theory of security communities, this thesis explores German, Frenc