More Union In European Defence

Author : Steven Blockmans,Giovanni Faleg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:933295149

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More Union in European Defence by Steven Blockmans,Giovanni Faleg Pdf

Years of uncoordinated cuts in defence spending have eroded the EU's role as a security actor in what is now a multipolar world. This CEPS Task Force report aims to provide member states and the EU institutions with the narrative to strengthen defence cooperation in the EU, in the face of numerous emergencies in the EU's strategic neighbourhood and ever-present security threats. The report is a record of the deliberations over several months between high-level experts in the field of European security and defence, who conclude that the Treaty of Lisbon demands and permits a great deal more in terms of our common security and defence activities. And that member states could achieve much more value for money than the €190 billion that they spend to keep up 28 national armies, comprising roughly 1.5 million service personnel. This report suggests policy actions to further the EU's strategic, institutional, capabilities, and resources cooperation in the field of defence. Ultimately, in the view of the Task Force experts, further integration should amount to a European Defence Union.

Author : Steven Blockmans,Giovanni Faleg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9461384491

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More Union in European Defence by Steven Blockmans,Giovanni Faleg Pdf

Years of uncoordinated cuts in defense spending and rapidly evolving global trends have eroded the EU's role as a security actor in a multipolar world. In the face of numerous emergencies in the EU's strategic neighborhood and ever-present security threats, this CEPS Task Force report aims to provide member states and those at the helm of the EU institutions with the narrative to strengthen defense cooperation in the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon demands and permits a great deal more in terms of our common security and defense activities. And member states could achieve much more value for the 190 billion that they spend to maintain 28 national armies made up of roughly 1.5 million service personnel. This task force report is a record of the deliberations over several months between high-level experts in the field of European security and defense. The report proposes an array of policy actions for further cooperation and integration as the natural steps to join the dots in the defense debate: strategic, institutional, capabilities, and resources. Ultimately, in the view of the task force members, defense integration should amount to a European Defence Union.

Author : Frederic Merand,Frédéric Mérand
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Daniel Fiott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429656729

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Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union by Daniel Fiott Pdf

This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice. Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence industrial policy at EU level. Moving beyond a simple adumbration of economic preferences, it shows how the EU’s institutional framework and corpus of law are used by governments to reaffirm their position as the ultimate arbiter and promoter of national economic preferences in the defence industrial sector. To this end, the work asks why and how EU member state governments, European defence firms, and EU institutions developed EU-level defence industrial policy between 2003 and 2009. The book also analyses significant policy developments, including the establishment of a European Defence Agency and two EU Directives on equipment transfers and defence procurement. This book will be of much interest to students of EU policy, defence studies, security studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Falc
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1720102511

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A European Defence Union by Falc Pdf

The security environment in and around Europe has become more complex and threats have multiplied. The European Union wants to ensure security for its citizens in an unstable world. This approach is also a response to the demand by the majority of the European citizens, who want more security, stability and a coordinated European response to current threats. This is why all these new threats have put the idea of a European Defence Union on the agenda once again.The need for a strong European Union has never been perceived as acutely as it is today. None of the European Union Member States have the necessary resources to create a secure environment. And more and more, the citizens and the governments of Europe, on their side, increasingly realise that European security, too, can only be guaranteed through a collective effort. Also European partners around the world see European Union as an indispensable power to build a more cooperative world order.Based on its Common Security and Defence Policy, the European Union has a history as security provider through establishing civilian and military missions. Since 2003, when the first missions were launched under European flag, the European Union missions and operations are launched on several continents.This book does not want to be a theoretical reflection on the need for a joint defence of Europeans. On the contrary, it is an overview of the reality that is already the European defence, although there is undoubtedly still a lot to be done. Finally, we should mention that the contents of this book are based mainly on official documents issued by the institutions of the European Union.

Author : Giovanni Faleg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319413068

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The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy by Giovanni Faleg Pdf

This book accounts for transformations in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)during fifteen years of operations (2001-2016), and argues that the EU evolved into a softer and more civilian security provider, rather than a military one. This learning process was driven by transnational communities of experts and practitioners, which acted as engines of change. Giovanni Faleg analyses two innovative concepts introduced in the EU security discourse since the late 1990s: security sector reform (SSR) and civilian crisis management (CCM). Both stem from a new understanding of security, involving the development of non-military approaches and a comprehensive approach to crisis management. However, the implementation of the two policy frameworks by the EU led to very different outcomes. The book explains this variation by exploring the pathways by which ideas turn into policies, and by comparing the transformational power of epistemic communities and communities of practice. “/p>

Author : Jolyon Howorth,Anand Menon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134710546

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The European Union and National Defence Policy by Jolyon Howorth,Anand Menon Pdf

Filling a surprising gap in existing studies, this book addresses many of the unanswered questions surrounding the role of european integration in shaping national defence policy. The impressive array of contributors consider the pressures on state policy emanating from the process of integration. The book is divided into three distinct parts: * an outline of the tortuous history of attempts to link defence with European integration * a study of the four larger member states - France, Germany, Italy and the UK as well as a chapter on The Netherlands; * an analysis of the effects of the nuclear weapons and arms procurement policies. This, the second book in The State and the European Union series, sheds light on an increasingly important and topical aspect of contemporary European security and will be essential reading for those studying European Politics, Public Policy and International Relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789038217857

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Death of an Institution: the end for Western European Union, a future for European defence? (Egmont Papers - 46) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jolyon Howorth
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123374238

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The Security and Defence Policy in the European Union by Jolyon Howorth Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis by a leading authority of the EU's recent emergence as a security and defence actor and the implications for transatlantic relations.

Author : Preben Bonnén
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee,Bernan
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0104013435

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Current Developments in European Defence Policy by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee,Bernan Pdf

For this report key topics in the evidence were the European Defence Agency (EDA) budget, European defence spending and value for money issues. Other questions focused on other aspects of the EDA, issues around the UK's non-participation in projects in the Joint Investment Programme on research into Innovative Concepts and Emerging Technologies and the Force Protection Joint Investment Programme as well as various other defence interests.

Author : George Voskopoulos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Frédéric Mérand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : OCLC:1132063368

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European Defence Policy by 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. Whether hailed as a vital step in the integration of Europe or berated as a wasteful threat to U.S. power, European citizens are increasingly interested in the common defence policy. Today, "European Defence" is more popular than the European Union itself, even in Great Britain." "Merand addresses the fundamental challenge posed by military integration to the way we think about the state in the 21st Century. Looking back over the past 50 years, he shows how statesmen, diplomats and soldiers have converged towards Brussels as a "natural" solution to their concerns but also as something worth fighting over." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Karl von Wogau
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9062159230

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The Path to European Defence by Karl von Wogau Pdf

After the Internal Market and the Introduction of the Euro, the European Union is making the decisive steps towards the next large project on the way to European unification, which is European Defence. The recent Iraqi crisis has shown that a common European foreign policy is more necessary than ever. In spite of this shortfall, there has been important progress: The European crisis intervention force, such as it was defined in Helsinki in 1999, has already been deployed successfully in two operations. Still, creating a European Defence is an ongoing process, where Europe has to continue to improve its capabilities. The direction that the European Union will have to take in the coming years is indicated by the European Convention, which has proposed to create a European Minister of Foreign Affairs and a European Armaments, Research and Military Capabilities Agency. Within the European Parliament, there is a large majority for the necessity of a European Defence. This is demonstrated by the contributions of representatives of the four major political groups in this book. It also corresponds with the preferences of public opinion. The draft of a European Security Strategy presented by Javier Solana in June 2003 is a good step towards a European Foreign and Security Policy, which will be able to guarantee the security of the European citizens and to defend the interests of the European Union in the world. High-ranking European personalities, such as Javier Solana, Guy Verhofstadt, Erkii Liikanen and Philippe Busquin have made valuable contributions to this book. The authors set out to identify where we stand on defence and what remains to be done to help Europe evolve in the changing global context of the 21st century.

Author : Hugo Meijer,Marco Wyss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192507747

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The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces by Hugo Meijer,Marco Wyss Pdf

The armed forces of Europe have undergone a dramatic transformation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces provides the first comprehensive analysis of national security and defence policies, strategies, doctrines, capabilities, and military operations, as well as the alliances and partnerships of European armed forces in response to the security challenges Europe has faced since the end of the cold war. A truly cross-European comparison of the evolution of national defence policies and armed forces remains a notable blind spot in the existing literature. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces aims to fill this gap with fifty-one contributions on European defence and international security from around the world. The six parts focus on: country-based assessments of the evolution of the national defence policies of Europe's major, medium, and lesser powers since the end of the cold war; the alliances and security partnerships developed by European states to cooperate in the provision of national security; the security challenges faced by European states and their armed forces, ranging from interstate through intra-state and transnational; the national security strategies and doctrines developed in response to these challenges; the military capabilities, and the underlying defence and technological industrial base, brought to bear to support national strategies and doctrines; and, finally, the national or multilateral military operations by European armed forces. The contributions to The Handbook collectively demonstrate the fruitfulness of giving analytical precedence back to the comparative study of national defence policies and armed forces across Europe.