European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory [electronic resource] /
Dyson, Tom.author.
Konstadinides, Theodore.author.
This book offers a novel contribution to the study of post-Cold War European defence. Interdisciplinary in approach, it uses European law to assess the utility of existing theoretical accounts. By exploring the balance of threat theory, it provides new insights into the forces driving and hindering European defence cooperation.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Why EU Law and IR Theory? Uncovering the Scope of European Defence Cooperation""; ""1 Mapping European Defence Cooperation: Patterns of Competition and Complementarity in the Architecture of European Defence""; ""The context of European defence cooperation: Changing security threats and the emergence of military isomorphism in post-Cold War Europe""; ""NATO in the post-Cold War era: Developing the capacity to deploy expeditionary force across the conflict spectrum""
""Defence procurement initiatives in post-Cold War Europe""""Force generation initiatives in the post-Cold War Europe""; ""CSDP: The growth of European military autonomy""; ""Helsinki to Lisbon: Furnishing the EU with the institutional structures and military capabilities for defence autonomy""; ""NATO and CSDP: Competition and complementarity""; ""Missing pieces of the puzzle: Institutional and military capability gaps in CSDP""; ""2 The Legal Underpinnings of European Defence Cooperation""; ""Introduction""; ""Historical context""; ""The legal framework of CSDP""
""The ESDP prior to the Treaty of Lisbon""""The CSDP and the Treaty of Lisbon""; ""The Lisbon Treaty's mutual assistance clause""; ""The Lisbon Treaty's flexibility provisions""; ""The institutional architecture of CSDP""; ""The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy""; ""The CJEU and the overlap between security and other EU policies""; ""CSDP: Still an intergovernmental affair""; ""3 The Application of EU Law in Defence Collaboration and Armament Procurement: Towards a More Systematic and Institutionalised Form of Cooperation""
""A state-centric defence equipment market""""The Commission's EU defence equipment policy 'package'""; ""The interpretation of the exception system under Article 346 TFEU""; ""The Defence Procurement Directive 2009/81/EC""; ""Directive 2009/43 on intra-EU transfers of defence products""; ""EU capability procurement initiatives""; ""The EDA""; ""Collaborative procurement initiatives outside the EU framework""; ""OCCAR""; ""NATO capability procurement initiatives""; ""Defence procurement initiatives outside the EU and NATO frameworks""; ""The LoI""; ""Conclusion""
""4 Theoretical Contestation on European Defence Cooperation""""Constructivism and European defence cooperation""; ""Towards a European strategic culture?""; ""Governance and European defence cooperation""; ""The Europeanisation of national defence policies""; ""Liberal intergovernmentalism and European defence cooperation""; ""Two-level games theory and European defence cooperation""; ""Institutionalism and European defence cooperation""; ""Classical realism and European defence cooperation""; ""The neglect of material power in the study of European defence: Neorealism as a 'straw man'""
""5 Explaining European Defence Cooperation: Neorealism and the Contradictory Imperatives of the International System""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers a novel contribution to the study of post-Cold War European defence. Interdisciplinary in approach, it uses European law to assess the utility of existing theoretical accounts. By exploring the balance of threat theory, it provides new insights into the forces driving and hindering European defence cooperation.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Political science.
European Union.
International relations.
Politics and war.
World politics.
Political Science.
European Union Politics.
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .
International Relations.
Military and Defence Studies.
Political History.