1st Edition

The EU and the European Security Strategy Forging a Global Europe

Edited By Sven Biscop, Jan Joel Andersson Copyright 2008
216 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only really be a ‘reactor’ to events and developments. In the ESS the EU now has a strategy, with which it has the potential of shifting boundaries and shaping the World. This volume explores this statement and examines the underlying... Read more

Introduction, Sven Biscop and Jan Joel Andersson 1. The European Security Strategy in Context: A Comprehensive Trend, Sven Biscop 2. The European Security Strategy and Threats: Is Europe Secure?, Jean-Yves Haine 3. The European Security Strategy’s Global Objective: Effective Multilateralism, Richard Gowan 4. The European Security Strategy’s Regional Objective: Neighbourhood Policy, Roland Dannreuther 5. The European Security Strategy and Military Capacity: The First Significant Steps, Jolyon Howorth 6. The European Security Strategy and the Partners, Roberto Menotti and Maria Francesca Vencato 7. The European Security Strategy and the Continuing Search for Coherence, Jan Joel Andersson 8. The European Security Strategy and the United States: The Past as Prologue, Catherine Kelleher Conclusion, Jan Joel Andersson and Sven Biscop

Biography

Sven Biscop is a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels and professor of European security at Ghent University, Belgium.

Jan Joel Andersson is programme director and a research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, he also teaches international relations at Stockholm University, Sweden.