This book shows how France and Britain are leaders in EU security and defence policy, and explains why both states need each other in this policy area. The lack of relevant military capacity in Europe today implies that the US favours a strong EU in this field.
Author(s): Janne Haaland Matlary
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 249
Contents......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Epigraph......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Security Policy in Europe......Page 28
1 Post-National Security Policy in Europe......Page 30
From nation-state to 'service-state' in Europe......Page 32
From existential, territorial threat to diffuse risk......Page 34
Implications for non-state actors in security policy......Page 38
The state may lose its monopoly on military force......Page 41
Driving forces of internationalisation......Page 44
Multilateral legitimacy......Page 46
The return of security interests: Doing good and fighting terrorism......Page 51
2 EU Security and Defence Policy: Legitimacy and Capability......Page 55
EU legitimacy for the use of force......Page 56
EU military capabilities......Page 61
European Capabilities Action Plan (ECAP)......Page 64
Headline goal 2010......Page 65
EDA......Page 66
Gendarmerie force......Page 68
Institutional capacity building......Page 69
Planning Cell instead of headquarter......Page 70
EU operations......Page 72
NATO's role......Page 73
Relations between NATO and the EU......Page 75
How are decisions made in the EU?......Page 76
3 EU Security Dynamics: The New National Interests......Page 83
The new national interests in security policy......Page 88
Realist models of the ESDP......Page 92
Constructivist and institutionalist approaches......Page 94
The EU: Soft power – therefore ethical power?......Page 99
Indirect power: The shaping of institutions......Page 101
Exercising power in the ESDP......Page 104
Part II: EU Security Dynamics: Pursuing National Interests......Page 110
4 Playing the Great Game: France, Britain, and Germany......Page 112
Grand strategy in Europe......Page 114
France......Page 116
The evolution of French strategic thinking......Page 119
Britain......Page 125
From unilateral to multilateral force deployments......Page 132
The main political dynamic: Directoire inside the EU......Page 135
The battlegroups......Page 140
The EDA and defence industry 'pooling'......Page 145
Conclusions......Page 149
Two-level games played......Page 153
Domestic political processes......Page 158
Italy......Page 161
Germany......Page 164
Britain......Page 174
France......Page 177
Weak state elites must play two-level games......Page 179
Strong state elites sometimes play two-level games......Page 180
Part III: Incurring Security Policy Dependencies?......Page 182
6 Coalitions of the Able: The Pooling of Military Capacity in the ESDP......Page 184
Military integration in Europe......Page 186
Integration in the battlegroups......Page 188
Integration through procurement and planning?......Page 189
Military capacities: Who depends on whom?......Page 191
The political process: Does it create integration?......Page 199
7 Coalitions of the Willing: The Pooling of Sovereignty in the ESDP......Page 203
EU as an arena or an actor?......Page 205
In bello decision-making matters increasingly......Page 207
Coercive diplomacy: Another area of core logic......Page 210
EU strategic culture: A contradiction in terms?......Page 217
Capability, legitimacy, but no political will......Page 219
Conclusion: A French model for the EU?......Page 221
Notes......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 233
C......Page 244
E......Page 245
H......Page 246
N......Page 247
R......Page 248
W......Page 249
