Beyond Strategic Culture? Grand Strategy, the European Unionand Security Cooperation
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2015

This paper will consider the extent to which European Union (EU) foreign policy is driven by humanitarian and/or geopolitical considerations. The paper will also analyse the extent to which the EU’s external actions have a sense of cohesion and shared culture that enables the Union to develop joined-up thinking on security questions. What can this also tell us about EU power and Grand Strategy in the world and the extent to which Europe is in relative decline as is often posited in the literatur