European Defence Decision Making

Author : Antonio Calcara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000039528

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European Defence Decision-Making by Antonio Calcara Pdf

This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes. The European defence market is characterised by a mixture of inter-state competition and European cooperation, and this work assesses why countries sometimes decide to cooperate with their partners, while in other instances they refrain from doing so. In order to shed light on this empirical puzzle, the book focuses on state-defence industry relations in the four major European arms producers: France, Germany, Italy and the UK. The main argument is that the public or private governance of industrial suppliers and market size are the two decisive variables that explain the simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition in European defence procurement. Specifically, it argues that in public governance ecosystems, arms industries are able to "capture" the state's decision-making processes to their own advantage. In private governance ecosystems, the state is relatively autonomous from defence industry's influence and able to pursue larger macro-economic and military benefits. Moreover, the strategy pursued by governments and defence firms is decisively shaped by market size because of its importance in determining the relative costs and benefits of collaborative arrangements. This book will be of much interest to students of EU policy, defence studies, European politics and International Relations.

Author : Nikolaos Karampekios,Iraklis Oikonomou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317628095

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The European Defence Agency by Nikolaos Karampekios,Iraklis Oikonomou Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution. Despite its critical role in European strategic and military affairs as the key hub of European policy-making in the field of armaments, the Agency has hitherto received very little attention by the academic and research community around Europe. To fill this gap in the literature, the book covers a multitude of inter-related themes and topics. Not only does it provide a detailed analysis and assessment of the Agency’s record as the first institution dealing solely with EU armaments policy, but it also links these findings to international relations and European integration theory. Thematically, the contributions go beyond the mere description of achievements, gaps and risks, elaborating on novel themes such as space, offsets, pooling and sharing, and transatlantic armaments relations. The book combines an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European defence with theoretical and ontological pluralism, and seeks to unveil the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of armaments collaboration and capability development under the aegis of the EDA. The multi-faceted orientation of the book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU institutions, defence studies, arms control and international relations in general.

Author : Jochen Rehrl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3902275359

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Handbook for Decision Makers by Jochen Rehrl Pdf

Author : Frederic Merand,Frédéric Mérand
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199533244

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European Defence Policy by Frederic Merand,Frédéric Mérand Pdf

This book explains the creation of the European Union's Security and Defence Policy - to this day the most ambitious project of peacetime military integration. Mérand explores the complex relations between the state, the military, and citizenship in today's Europe.

Author : George Voskopoulos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030488932

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European Union Security and Defence by George Voskopoulos Pdf

​This book explores the multilayer nexus among inter-related international and regional security parameters that critically define the EU’s rapidly changing security environment. In terms of intensity, complexity and urgency these changes constitute challenges that threaten the very core of European security – both internal and external. In a fluid and transitional international environment of diversified needs and polymorphic threats the space dimension acquires a novel unified meaning. The book closely examines the EU’s current strategic, organisational and defence capabilities regarding global, regional and domestic challenges such as terrorism, systemic instability, global order and a number of crucial hindrances to transatlantic cooperation. The chapters offer not only valuable theoretical insights, but also unique perspectives on operational and organisational elements of EU applied policies based on the testimonies of field experts. The combination of theory-based approaches and the demonstration of the EU’s operational capabilities and weaknesses as externalized through its global strategy choices provide an overall evaluation of adopted policies and their effects. This is crucial in a global transition period that will define the EU’s role and its potential to produce desired outcomes through synergies with its strategic allies.

Author : Sven Biscop,Jo Coelmont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136639197

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Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces by Sven Biscop,Jo Coelmont Pdf

This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors continue to measure power mostly by assessing military capability. To preserve its status as an economic power, therefore, the EU has to become a power across the board, which requires a grand strategy, and the means and the will to proactively pursue one. The authors of this book aim to demonstrate that the EU can develop a purposive yet distinctive grand strategy that preserves the value-based nature of EU external action while also safeguarding its vital economic interests. The book analyses the existing military capability of the European Union and its bottom-up nature, which results in a national-based focus in the member-states, impeding deployment capability. A systematic realignment of national defence planning at the strategic level will enable each member-states to focus its defence effort on the right capabilities, make maximal use of pooling and specialization, and contribute to multinational projects in order to address Europe’s strategic capability shortfalls. A stronger Europe will therefore result, it is argued, a real global actor, which can then become an equal strategic partner to the United States, leading to a revitalized Transatlantic partnership in turn. This book will be of interest to students of military studies, European Union policy, strategic studies and International Relations generally.

Author : Michael Merlingen,Rasa Ostrauskaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134083558

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European Security and Defence Policy by Michael Merlingen,Rasa Ostrauskaite Pdf

Security and defence is the area in which the EU has advanced most in recent years. A principal element of this process is the proliferating number of military and civilian crisis management missions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Clearly, Europe has come a long way since the disappointments and frustration in the 1990s, when, in light of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, analysts argued that the EU foreign and security policy was ‘neither common, nor foreign, nor dealing with security, nor (could) be called a policy.’ Since then the newly developed European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has become the necessary framework for the formulation and implementation of effective European security policy. This book is the first-ever in-depth inquiry of the ESDP in action. It analyzes the implementation of military and civilian missions in the Balkans, Southern Caucasus, Africa and Asia and asks what impact they have on the ground. The EUJUST Themis in Georgia, the Aceh Monitoring Mission in Indonesia as well as EUSEC-R.D. Congo and EUPOL Kinshasa are examined in The European Security and Defence Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, security, European studies, foreign policy, peacekeeping and transatlantic relations.

Author : Nikolaos Karampekios,Iraklis Oikonomou,Elias G. Carayannis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319688077

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The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy by Nikolaos Karampekios,Iraklis Oikonomou,Elias G. Carayannis Pdf

This book explores European security and defense R&D policy, unveiling the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of the European Commission’s military research initiative. Starting from a well-defined empirical epicentre—the rise of non-civilian R&D priorities in the European Union—this book covers interrelated themes and topics such as approaches to arms production and R&D collaboration relationships between European R&D-related institutions technology and research foundations of European security policy past and present European armament collaborations transatlantic R&D collaboration the militarization of border security. Divided into 5 sections, the enclosed chapters explore the EU technology and innovation policy in regards to security, industrial competitiveness and military capabilities. The terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001 provided a window of opportunity for the introduction of security as a distinct European R&D priority. In fact, since 2002, the Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR) has funded 45 million euros to 39 research consortia to conduct security R&D. While the idea of pooling defense research efforts and programmes in Europe is not new, the establishment of institutions like the European Defense Agency (EDA) are a major step into institutionalizing European agencies involvement in supporting defense technology research. It is against this backdrop of policy developments that this book is positioned, in addition to addressing some of the political, economic, industrial and philosophical questions that arise. Featuring contributions from a variety of academic fields and industries, this book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, students and policy makers in the fields of security policy, international relations, innovation, European studies and military studies.

Author : Preben Bonnén
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3825867110

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Towards a Common European Security and Defence Policy by Preben Bonnén Pdf

"The EU made a strong commitment to developing an effective EU led crisis management capacity. By 2003 the EU must be in a position to deploy within 60 days up to 50,000-60,000 troops capable of a full range of so-called Petersberg tasks including: humanitarian and rescue missions, peacekeeping, combat force tasks in crisis management and peacemaking missions." "According to the EU however the initiative should not be seen as a duplication of NATO. Neither should the establishment of a European Force be confused with the concept of a European army. Whether a European army, or a common defence for Europe is more capable of handling the future needs and challenges of the EU is not the subject of this book. Essentially it is about whether a military crisis management system is practical and realistic and how the planned initiatives within the agreed limits are to be transformed into operative policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bruno Angelet
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Security, International
ISBN : 9789038212807

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European defence in the wake of the Lisbon treaty (Egmont Paper 21) by Bruno Angelet Pdf

Author : Petros Violakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351587075

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Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy by Petros Violakis Pdf

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the transformation of national security and defence, and attempts to account for the development of Europeanisation and related mechanisms. These mechanisms, which have been described as framing mechanisms and negative integration, incorporate all the major relevant factors identified here (i.e. a common Strategic Culture, new security identity, domestic political decision-making, industrial base and defence-spending decline) that contributed to the realisation of the CSDP. The relevance of these factors for CSDP Europeanisation is examined through an historical and empirical analysis, and the relationship between the CSDP and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is also explored. This approach facilitates analysis of the debate concerning the emergence of the CSDP and throws light on the political shift that led European Union (EU) leaders to support the CSDP. Another aspect of this study is the empirical examination of the dynamics and limitations of the European defence sector. The changes which took place in this sector facilitated the emergence of the CSDP and are therefore analysed in the light of globalisation issues, economies of scale, economic crises, military autonomy, new security strategy and Research and Development (R&D) impact. This book will be of interest to students of European security, EU politics, defence studies and International Relations.

Author : George Michael Dillon
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019835001

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Defence Policy Making by George Michael Dillon Pdf

Designed to give an introduction to the way defence policy is made. Provides the basic mechanisms at work in the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and West Germany and explains the defence decision making of these countries in its own historical and cultural setting.

Author : Jochen Rehrl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9295201086

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Handbook for Decision Makers by Jochen Rehrl Pdf

This Handbook is aimed at supporting leadership training for personnel involved in the decision-making/shaping process and in theatre. This training material focuses on CFSP/CSDP aspects of training, recruitment, the principles of EU engagement and geographical as well as horizontal issues. In the latter chapter, we have also included articles on subjects which are prima facie not so CFSP/CSDP-related, but which, on reflection, make the relevance of topics such as anti-corruption, sanctions and international criminal justice visible.

Author : H. Dijkstra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137357878

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Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense by H. Dijkstra Pdf

EU foreign policy has long been considered the exclusive domain of member states. This book challenges such state-centered wisdom by analyzing the influence of Brussels-based EU officials in the area of security and defence. Using case studies and unique insights from over a hundred interviews this book shows how everyday policy is made in practice

Author : Brendan Donnelly,Stephen Haseler,Jeannette Ladzik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0955497507

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A European Foreign Policy ? by Brendan Donnelly,Stephen Haseler,Jeannette Ladzik Pdf

This is a study of the European Union's external decision-making processes and the present debate which surrounds them. It considers in turn three main elements of these processes, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the External Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)and the Common Commercial Policy (CCP).