1st Edition

The EU, Strategy and Security Policy Regional and Strategic Challenges

Edited By Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Petar Petrov Copyright 2016
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions. Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has yet to acquire a clear sense of purpose. This book... Read more

1. Strategy in European Security and Defence policy - does it matter?, Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Petar Petrov

Section 1: Regional Challenges

2. CSDP strategy in the Balkans and the Eastern neighbourhoodIn Search for a Strategy?, Ana E Juncos

3. The EU in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Ronja Kempin, Ronja Scheler

4. The EU’s comprehensive approach to security in the MENA regionWhat Lessons for CSDP from Libya?, Wolfgang Mühlberger, Patrick Müller

5. The CSDP and Asia, Rhys Merrett

Section 2: Strategic Challenges

6. CSDP and the internal-external security nexus, Alistair J.K. Shepherd

7. The EU’s security actorness in cyber space: quo vadis?, André Barrinha and Helena Carrapiço

8. Maritime Security and the CSDPInterests, Operational Experience, and Strategies, Michael E. Smith

9. The EU –UN Partnership in Light of the Responsibility to Protect, Julia Schmidt

Section 3: Strategic Opportunities and Barriers

10. EU-NATO relationsTop-down strategic paralysis, bottom-up cooperation, Simon Duke, Sophie Vanhoonacker

11. The National Priorities of Germany, France and the UKEnabling or Constraining a Joined-Up EU Strategy?, Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Richard Whitman

12. Military Capabilities and Force Transformation, David J. Galbreath and Simon J. Smith

13. Conclusion, Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Petar Petrov

Biography

Laura Chappell is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Surrey, UK.

Jocelyn Mawdsley is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Petar Petrov is Assistant Professor in International relations and EU External Relations at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.