Constrained balancing: the EU's security policy

by Peters, Dirk

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Title Statements

Full title :Constrained balancing : the EU's security policy / Dirk Peters.

Summary

"In 1999, ten years of heated debate about the EU's role in defense policy came to an end, when the EU decided to establish an autonomous security and defense policy. Germany and Britain had been key players in the years leading to this decision. But they played markedly different roles - the former endorsing the idea from the beginning, the latter dragging its heels and only reluctantly becoming a supporter. Nonetheless both British and German policies can be understood as responses to impulses from the international system. The end of the Cold War prompted both states to pursue a policy of balancing US power. Yet international institutions constrained their balancing efforts differently. To demonstrate this, this book builds on the theories of neo-realism and historical institutionalism and develops the approach of structure-based foreign policy analysis: a new mode of analyzing security policies as responses to the international environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 264 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230242142, 0230242146
oclc:ocn588998949
LC Classification:JZ6009.E94
Dewey Decimal:355/.03354

Introduction -- Structure and policy : a framework for analysis -- A guide for analysis -- Britain and Germany at the end of the Cold War -- From the end of bipolarity to the Petersberg Declaration (1990-92) -- From Petersberg to Amsterdam (1992-97) -- From Amsterdam to Cologne (1997-99) -- Summarizing, deconstructing, reconsidering the results.

Subjects

89.72 international organizations Allemagne RF EU countries European Union European Union countries European Union countries -- Military po… European Union: foreign and security po… Foreign relations Germany History International peace and security Military policy National security National security -- European Union cou… Pays de l'Union européenne -- Politique… politique comparée Politique de défense Royaume-Uni Security policy Security, International