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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779437903321

Autore

Hofmann Stephanie C. <1977->

Titolo

European security in NATO's shadow : party ideologies and institution building / / Stephanie C. Hofmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-52173-4

1-139-61095-3

1-107-23722-X

1-139-61281-6

1-139-62583-7

1-139-60918-1

1-139-24592-9

1-139-61653-6

1-283-87062-2

1-139-62211-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL011000

Disciplina

355/.03304

Soggetti

National security - Europe

Europe Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Political party ideology and security cooperation; 3. The success and failure of European security cooperation; 4. The end of the Cold War and the Maastricht Treaty - the Common Foreign and Security Policy; 5. Renegotiating Maastricht at Amsterdam - the failure to go beyond CFSP; 6. Saint Malo, Cologne, and Nice - the creation of the robust ESDP; 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.