European defence cooperation in EU law and IR theory /
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| Author / Creator: | Dyson, Tom. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
| Description: | xvii, 256 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New security challenges series New security challenges series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9271295 |
Table of 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 Lol
- Conclusion
- 4. Theoretical Contestation on European Defence Cooperation
- Constructivism and European defence cooperation
- Towards a European strategic culture?
- Governance and European defence cooperation
- The Europeaniszation 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
- The core premises of neorealism: Consensus and contestation within neorealist thought
- Europe in the post-Cold War era: Systemic unipolarity and regional balanced multipolarity
- European defence cooperation as reformed bandwagoning
- Understanding differentiation in defence: Variance in external vulnerability and the trade-off between abandonment and entrapment
- France: Vulnerability to German power and the legacy of empire
- The United Kingdom: Dependency on US power for global influence
- Germany: The vulnerabilities of semi-sovereignty and the European Mittellage
- 6. Conclusions: The Destination of European Defence Cooperation
- The lessons for European defence: Enduring uncertainty and the limits to the scope and depth of cooperation
- Avenues for future theoretical research: Deepening our understanding of systemic variables in defence cooperation
- Theorising the role of domestic-level variables in European defence cooperation
- Future research directions for legal and IR scholarship on European defence
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
