Explaining the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
Subtitle: theory in action
By: edited by Xymena Kurowska and Fabian Breuer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230277830
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; Common Security and Defence Policy; National security; Defenses; International cooperation; Military policy; International Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Description: "An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword; J.Solana; title: Introduction: The Role of Theory in the Study of Common Security and Defence Policy; X.Kurowska; title: Neorealism; A.Hyde-Price; title: The Common Security and Defence Policy: Approaching Transgovernmentalism?; S.C.Hofmann; title: CSDP: The Strategic Perspective; S.Biscop&P.M.Norheim-Martinsen; title: The Social Constructivist Sensibility and CSDP Research; X.Kurowska&F.Kratochwil; title: Sociological Institutionalism, Socialisation, and the Brussalisation of CSDP; F.Breuer; title: Bricolage: A Sociological Approach to the Making of European Defence; F.Merand; title: A Historical Materialist Approach to CSDP; I.Oikonomou; title: Applying Foucault's Toolkit to CSDP; M.Merlingen; title: The Praxis of Romania's Euro-Atlantic Security Field: A Bourdieu-Inspired Research Agenda; R.O.Csernatoni; title: Conclusion: The Way Ahead for Research into CSDP; X.Kurowska&F.Breuer.