1st Edition

European Union and Strategy An Emerging Actor

Edited By Kjell Engelbrekt, Jan Hallenberg Copyright 2008
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper. The book has a two-fold agenda, exploring current EU external policies that are, or seem to be, linked to strategic priorities, and also studying the concept of strategy in the... Read more

Introduction Jan Hallenberg  Part 1: Constraints and Capacities  1. Machiavelli and the Making of a European Security And Defence Strategy Kjell Engelbrekt  2. The EU Made Me Do It: Drivers of Multinational Security and Defence Policy Janne Haaland Matlary  3. The EU as a Military Strategic Actor Lars Wedin  4. Analyzing EU’s Shared Strategy Malena Britz and Arita Eriksson  Part 2: Strategic Entanglements  5. The Ambivalent Power: The United States and European Security and Defence Policy Gale A. Mattox  6. Europe’s Emergent but Weak Strategic Culture: The Case of the EU, Iran and Nuclear Weapons Diplomacy Sten Rynning  7. The EU’s Democratic Norm Project for Eurasia: Will the Beauty Tame the Beast? Bertil Nygren  Part 3: Actor on a Global Scale?  8. Why Three Straight Lines Rarely Form a Triangle: US, EU and Chinese Strategies in the 21st Century François Géré  9. A Neurotic Centaur: The Limitations of the EU as a Strategic Actor Adrian Hyde-Price 10. A Progressive European Union, A Problematic United States: An Exceptional Experiment Contends with American Exceptionalism Andrew L. Ross  11. The EU as a Strategic Actor, ‘Re-Actor’ or Passive Pole? Charlotte Wagnsson  Conclusion  12. Conclusion: A Strategic Actor under Permanent Construction? Kjell Engelbrekt and Jan Hallenberg 

Biography

Jan Hallenberg is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish National Defence College, and Adjunct Professor at Stockholm University.

Kjell Engelbrekt is Senior Lecturer of Political Science at the Swedish National Defence College.