1st Edition

Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union The State, the Firm and Europe

By Daniel Fiott Copyright 2019
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice. Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence industrial policy at EU level. Moving... Read more

Introduction  1. Surveying EU defence industrial policy framework  2. Theorising European defence industrial cooperation  3. Establishing the European Defence Agency  4. Adopting the defence transfers directive  5. Adopting the defence procurement directive  Conclusion

Biography

Daniel Fiott is an analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Brussels, Belgium, and co-editor of The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar (2015).