“Sleeping Beauty” Unleashed: Harmonizing a Consolidated European Security and Defense Union. ZEI Discussion Paper C 248/2018
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2018

The under-researched Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) of European defense integration often gets the short end of the stick in EU debate chambers perhaps due to the high levels of discretion, sensitivity and trust that it entails. This undertaking assesses the manifold blockages over time that have inhibited the EU from expanding its CSDP framework into a fully harmonized and operational European Security and Defense Union (ESDU). In doing so, a triangle of European defense integration