1st Edition
International Relations Theory and European Security We Thought We Knew
Foreword, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp Introduction: On Theories, Paradigms, and CSDP, Lorenzo Cladi and Andrea Locatelli PART I: Do IR Theories Have a Say on CSDP? 1. Structural Realism: Balancing, Bandwagoning, or What?, Lorenzo Cladi and Andrea Locatelli 2. Neoclassical Realism: Clarifying the Nature of Systemic- and Domestic-Level Variables in CSDP, Tom Dyson 3. The Emergence and Evolution of CSDP: A Liberal Approach, Friederike Richter 4. Governmental interest, New Liberalism, and the CSDP, Benjamin Pohl, Niels van Willigen and Cynthia M.C. van Vonno 5. Beyond Material Factors? Identity, Culture and the Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, Carla Monteleone 6. How to Explain the Transnational Security Governance of the European Union?, Kamil Zwolski PART II: On the Limits of IR Theories to Understand CSDP 7. Of politics and policies. Thinking strategically about the EU, Olivier Schmitt 8. Realism and the CSDP-NATO Conundrum, Luiz Simón 9. France, America, and the Issue of Balancing (Soft or Otherwise): A Tale of Two Cycles, David Haglund 10. The EU’s Policy Towards Russia: National Interests and Path Dependency, Serena Giusti 11. The EU’s Foreign Policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Story of Underachievement?, Lorenzo Cladi 12. Conclusion, Lorenzo Cladi and Andrea Locatelli
Biography
Lorenzo Cladi is a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has a PhD in International Relations from Loughborough University, UK.
Andrea Locatelli is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence, Italy.
'Cladi and Locatelli’s contributors are rightfully drawn from various theoretical schools (realism, liberal institutionalism, constructivism), and readers will derive little consensus about how or why European-wide institutions can or might be effective in security matters. But, perhaps, contributing to that debate is the most valuable aspect of this Routledge collection...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.'--D. N. Nelson, Center for Arms Control & Nonproliferation, CHOICE
