The development of a Brussels-based EU strategic culture : a case study of the European Security and Defence Policy
The study of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has been dominated
by various mainstream theories drawn from International Relations and European
Studies. These have largely neglected the role of ideas, beliefs, values and practices
regarding the use of police and military instruments, in other words, the strategic
culture which shapes the security and defence policies of the European Union (EU).
This strategic culture of the EU has become manifest in the way ESDP officials think
about the deployment of military and police resources as well as in the way they plan
ESDP missions.
After introducing the concept in general terms, the thesis claims that the notion of
strategic culture can be applied to the EU. Various innovative models of
categorisationa re provided throughout the thesis in order to describe the state of
development of EU strategic culture. An analysis of the development of the strategic
culture of the EU is provided since the end of the Cold War up to the year 2007.
Important developments such as the institutionalisation of ESDP and the
establishment of influential policy networks are considered in detail. The study also
takes into account the discourse of ESDP and questions the ideas that stem from it
through interviews and questionnaires with ESDP officials. A cases tudy of the police
and military missions of the EU in Bosnia Herzegovina is included in order to show
how ideas regarding the use of force impact on the implementation of EU missions. In
conclusion, the thesis claims that the EU has its own strategic culture which is
characterised by a number of behavioural/structural elements as well as by certain ideas, values, beliefs and practices.
A Common Foreign Policy for Europe?: Competing Visions of the CFSP
The first book to explore the EU's record as a global actor since the creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1993 within the context of the Treaty of Amsterdam and recent decisions relating to NATO and EU enlargement. The chapters focus on: * the interface between EU foreign and trade policies * the EU's relationship with European defence organizations * its behaviour within the OSCE and UN * the institutional consequences of the CFSP * case studies of EU policies towards Central and Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries. The editors draw the findings together to assess whether the EU has been successful as a global actor and consider the question: can the EU become a more credible, reliable and unitary global actor?
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