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Record Nr.

UNINA9910751388803321

Autore

Biermann Felix

Titolo

The Battle for Authority in European Defence Cooperation / / by Felix Biermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031300547

9783031300530

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, , 2662-5881

Disciplina

355.03304

355

Soggetti

Europe - Politics and government

Politics and war

International organization

International relations

Political science

European Politics

Military and Defence Studies

International Organization

International Relations

Governance and Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Introducing the Problem -- 1. Introduction -- Part II. Concepts and Theory -- 2. Authority relations in regime complexes -- 3. Struggling for authority in regime complexes -- Part III. Explaining authority distributions in the European defense complex -- 4. European defence cooperation and member state preferences -- 5. Integrating the WEAO into the EDA: Toward a European armaments agency? -- 6. The marginalization of the EDA: False premises, false promises? -- 7. The fragmentation of European defense planning: PESCO’s deep sleep -- 8. PESCO’s resilience: Jumpstarting the bandwagon -- Part IV. Assessment -- 9. Confronting contenders -- 10. Quo vadis, CSDP?.



Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses one of the most profound transformations in international governance: the proliferation of regime complexity. Regime complexes can be found wherever state interests clash. Thus, even in one of the most constitutionalized of institutional environments, the European Union (EU), regime complexity features prominently – especially in European defence cooperation, where states have created competing institutions overlapping in their mandates to organize armaments cooperation or defence planning. The tense relationship between the institutions of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and those of NATO is well-known. Yet inter-institutional conflict is not limited to this dichotomy. It extends to institutions beyond these two frameworks, such as those of the former Western European Union and regional defence cooperation frameworks such as the Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO), or OCCAR – a minilateralarmaments agency. All these institutions have partially overlapping membership structures and mandates and therefore rival authority claims in the field of European defence. This book uncovers the hidden regularities of the ongoing battle for institutional authority among EU member states. Felix Biermann is Research Fellow at the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich, Germany. His areas of interest are European Integration, International Institutions, Cyber Security, and Security Studies.