European Security In Nato S Shadow

Author : Stephanie C. Hofmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139620253

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European Security in NATO's Shadow by Stephanie C. Hofmann Pdf

NATO has been a successful forum for managing European security policy. Yet European governments have repeatedly tried to build a new security institution in NATO's shadow. In this innovative book, Stephanie C. Hofmann asks why governments attempted to create an additional institution despite no obvious functional necessity and why some attempts failed while others succeeded. European Security in NATO's Shadow considers security cooperation through the lens of party ideologies to shed new light on these questions. She observes that political parties are motivated to propose new institutions by their multidimensional ideologies. Moreover, the success of efforts to create such institutions depends on the degree of ideological congruence among parties in power. In particular, the relationship between the values of multilateralism, sovereignty and Europe informed the impetus and success rate of the attempts made during negotiations for the Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice treaties to create a European security institution.

Author : Robert E. Hunter
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833032287

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The European Security and Defense Policy by Robert E. Hunter Pdf

The emergence of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) in the last two-thirds of the 1990s and continuing into the new century, has been a complex process intertwining politics, economics, national cultures, and numerous institutions. This book provides an essential background for understanding how security issues as between NATO and the European Union are being posed for the early part of the 21st century, including the new circumstances following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. This study should be of interest to those interested in the evolution of U.S.-European relations, especially in, but not limited to, the security field; the development of institutional relationships; and key choices that lie ahead in regard to these critical arrangements.

Author : Stephanie C. Hofmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107029095

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European Security in NATO's Shadow by Stephanie C. Hofmann Pdf

This book asks why European countries tried to build a security institution outside of NATO, emphasising the influence of political party ideologies.

Author : Sven Biscop,Jan Joel Andersson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134162857

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The EU and the European Security Strategy by Sven Biscop,Jan Joel Andersson Pdf

The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only really be a ‘reactor’ to events and developments. In the ESS the EU now has a strategy, with which it has the potential of shifting boundaries and shaping the World. This volume explores this statement and examines the underlying concepts and implementation of the ESS as a judging tool of all the European Union’s external actions. Contributors, closely involved in the early debate leading up to the ESS, assess questions such as how the strategy has shaped EU policy, how it relates to existing policies but also how it has added value to these policies and whether the strategy’s objectives are sufficient to safeguard EU interests or whether they should be reviewed and added too. The outline of the strategy itself is followed; addressing its historical and conceptual context, the threat assessment, the multilateral and regional policies of the EU, its military capabilities and its strategic partnerships. This book offers a comprehensive vision of how the EU can achieve the ambitious objectives of the European Security Strategy and become an effective global actor as the strategy helps to forge a global Europe. The EU and the European Security Strategy will be of great interest to students and researchers of European politics and security studies.

Author : Richard Shirreff
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781681441375

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War with Russia by Richard Shirreff Pdf

The rapid rise in Russia's power over the course of the last ten years has been matched by a stunning lack of international diplomacy on the part of its president, Vladimir Putin. One consequence of this, when combined with Europe's rapidly shifting geopolitics, is that the West is on a possible path toward nuclear war. Former deputy commander of NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff speaks out about this very real peril in this call to arms, a novel that is a barely disguised version of the truth. In chilling prose, it warns allied powers and the world at large that we risk catastrophic nuclear conflict if we fail to contain Russia's increasingly hostile actions. In a detailed plotline that draws upon Shirreff's years of experience in tactical military strategy, Shirreff lays out the most probable course of action Russia will take to expand its influence, predicting that it will begin with an invasion of the Baltic states. And with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump recently declaring that he might not come to the aid of these NATO member nations were he to become president, the threat of an all-consuming global conflict is clearer than ever. This critical, chilling fictional look at our current geopolitical landscape, written by a top NATO commander, is both timely and necessary-a must-read for any fan of realistic military thrillers as well as all concerned citizens.

Author : James M. Goldgeier
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780876094679

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The Future of NATO by James M. Goldgeier Pdf

A head of title: Council on Foreign Relations, International Institutions and Global Governance Program.

Author : Sven Biscop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429763991

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European Strategy in the 21st Century by Sven Biscop Pdf

This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century. The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia, the declining power; China, the rising power; and the EU, the power that doesn’t know whether it wants to be a power. If the EU does not just want to undergo the policies of the other powers it will have to become one itself, but it should differ in its strategy. In this book, Sven Biscop seeks to demonstrate that the EU has the means to pursue a distinctive great power strategy, a middle way between dreamy idealism and unprincipled pragmatism, and can play a crucial stabilizing role in this increasingly unstable world. Written by a leading scholar, this book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, strategic studies and international relations.

Author : Dirk Leuffen,Berthold Rittberger,Frank Schimmelfennig
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030766771

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Integration and Differentiation in the European Union by Dirk Leuffen,Berthold Rittberger,Frank Schimmelfennig Pdf

Far from displaying a uniform pattern, European integration varies significantly across policy areas and individual countries. Why do some member states choose to opt out of specific EU policies? Why are some policies deeply integrated whereas others remain intergovernmental? In this updated second edition, the authors introduce the most important theoretical approaches to European integration and apply these to the trajectories of key EU policy areas. Arguing that no single theory offers a completely convincing explanation of integration and differentiation in the EU, this thought-provoking book provides a new synthesis of integration theory and an original way of thinking about what the EU is and how it works.

Author : Alyson J. K. Bailes,Gunilla Herolf,Bengt Sundelius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0199290849

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The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy by Alyson J. K. Bailes,Gunilla Herolf,Bengt Sundelius Pdf

In 1999 the EU decided to develop its own military capacities for crisis management. This book brings together a group of experts to examine the consequences of this decision on Nordic policy establishments, as well as to shed new light on the defence and security issues that matter for Europe as a whole.

Author : S. Gänzle,A. Sens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230801349

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The Changing Politics of European Security by S. Gänzle,A. Sens Pdf

The Changing Politics of European Security explores the key security challenges confronting Europe, from relations with the US and Russia to the use of military force and the struggle against terrorism. In the future, the authors conclude, European states will act alone, independent of America, on security matters.

Author : Kees van der Pijl
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527564824

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The Militarization of the European Union by Kees van der Pijl Pdf

From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pursuit of their particular interests. Since 2008, the European Commission has actively joined the quest for “strategic autonomy” within NATO. The elections of Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron in 2016-17 further widened the Atlantic rift, while the COVID-19 crisis with its colossal economic costs has, in turn, exacerbated the already worsening geopolitical tensions with states like Russia and China. With chapters on the politics and economics of European defence, on France, Germany, and Russia, the EU’s energy provision, the militarization of migration control, and the restructuring of the transatlantic bond, this volume offers an up-to-date, critical assessment of the militarization of European integration, written by established scholars in the fields of international relations and security studies.

Author : Sarwar A. Kashmeri
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597977784

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NATO 2.0 by Sarwar A. Kashmeri Pdf

On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO's German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.S. Air Force fighter to destroy two fuel trucks hijacked by theTaliban. Within hours, he was being investigated by German prosecutors for the murder of innocent civilians--collateral damage. Under German law its forces can only be deployed for peacekeeping; America might be at war in Afghanistan, but Germany is not. Germany is not the only country that sets strict conditions on its NATO troops. Half of the allied forces in Afghanistan operate under restricted battlefield conditions. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy with an Allied army that followed his every command; in Afghanistan military commanders must consult a checklist to figure out which allied soldiers can be sent into battle. NATO today is a shadow of what it used to be--the world's most formidable military alliance. Its original reason for existence, the Soviet Union, disintegrated years ago, and its dreams of being a world cop are withering in the mountains of Afghanistan. But eliminating NATO is not the answer, argues Sarwar Kashmeri. It is, for Americans and Europeans, still the safety net of last resort. Kashmeri believes NATO's future usefulness depends on its ability to partner with CSDP, Europe's increasingly successful security and defense establishment. It is time for NATO 2.0, a new version of NATO, to fit the realities of the twenty-first century.

Author : Sten Rynning
Publisher : DIIS - Copenhagen
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Defence policy
ISBN : 9788776054328

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NATO's New Strategic Concept. A Comprehensive Assessment by Sten Rynning Pdf

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732587

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Beyond NATO by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The countries in question collectively make a broken-up arc, from Europe's far north to its south: Finland and Sweden; Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus; Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan; and finally Cyprus plus Serbia, as well as possibly several other Balkan states. Discussion on the new framework should begin within NATO, followed by deliberation with the neutral countries themselves, and then formal negotiations with Russia. The new security architecture would require that Russia, like NATO, commit to help uphold the security of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and other states in the region. Russia would have to withdraw its troops from those countries in a verifiable manner; after that, corresponding sanctions on Russia would be lifted. The neutral countries would retain their rights to participate in multilateral security operations on a scale comparable to what has been the case in the past, including even those operations that might be led by NATO. They could think of and describe themselves as Western states (or anything else, for that matter). If the European Union and they so wished in the future, they could join the EU. They would have complete sovereignty and self-determination in every sense of the word. But NATO would decide not to invite them into the alliance as members. Ideally, these nations would endorse and promote this concept themselves as a more practical way to ensure their security than the current situation or any other plausible alternative.

Author : Rafael Biermann,Joachim A. Koops
Publisher : Springer
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137360397

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Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics by Rafael Biermann,Joachim A. Koops Pdf

This unique handbook brings together a team of leading scholars and practitioners in order to map, synthesize and assess key perspectives on cooperation and rivalry between regional and global organizations in world politics. For the first time, a variety of inter-disciplinary theoretical and conceptual perspectives are combined in order to assess the nature, processes and outcomes of inter-organizational partnerships and rivalries across major policy areas, such as peace and security, human rights and democratisation as well as finance, development and climate change . This text provides scholars, students and policy-makers of International Relations with an exhaustive reference book for understanding the theoretical and empirical dimensions of an increasingly important topic in International Relations (IR), Global Governance and related disciplines.