European Union Security and Defence: Policies, Operations and Transatlantic Challenges

✍ Scribed by George Voskopoulos

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: Contributions to Political Science
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

​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.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword About the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
Preface
Acknowledgments
Disclaimer
Contents
Contributors
Part I: The EU Internal-External Security Nexus
Soft Power, European Security Strategy and Radicalism: Cultural, Religious and Dimensional Challenges
1 Introduction
2 Soft Power Elements as Normative Tools
3 Soft Power and the Challenge of Multiculturalism
4 Soft Power and Interreligious Dialogue
5 Soft Power Within the EU´s Institutional Setting
6 Soft Power and Islamic Radicalism
7 The Spatial Dimension of Exercising Soft Power and Internal Soft Balancing
8 Radicalism, Soft Power and EU Internal Security
9 Internal Balancing
References
The Strategic Context of the European Security and Defence Policy
1 Introduction
2 The American Factor: The Pivot to Asia and the Trump Administration
3 Brexit from European and Security Policy?
4 The Evolving Strategic Context in the EU of Limited Resources
5 Conclusion
References
Securitization: Theoretical Underpinnings and Implications
1 Introduction
2 Securitization and Security as a Speech Act
3 Securitization and Security Beyond the Speech Act?
4 (De)securitization and Implications for Politics
5 Concluding Remarks
References
Small EU Member States and the European Security and Defence Integration
1 Introduction
2 Small States and the EU
3 Small States and the ESDP
4 Different Small Member States Have Different Approaches to the ESDP
5 Developments in the Areas of Security and Defence and the New Challenges for Small States
6 Conclusion
References
Part II: EU Operations: From the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) to the European External Action Service (EEAS)
EU Peace Operations in a Changing World: A Multilayer Evaluation
1 Introduction
2 Soft Power as the Foundation of EU Involvement in the World
3 EU Peace Operations as an Expression of Multilateralism
4 Hindrances to the EU Peace Operations
5 Epilogue
References
European Participation in International Military Operations: National Decision-Making and the Role of EU Institutions
1 Challenges to the EU
2 Institutions and the Challenge to Defence
3 The EU at a Crossroad
References
The European External Action Service: An Encompassing and Adaptive Agency at the Service of the EU Global Security Strategy?
1 Introduction
2 Theorizing Dynamic Hybridities of the EEAS
3 Multifaceted Security Challenges Drive the Form of Policy Formation by the EEAS
4 Cooperation Hybridity to Serve Interoperability: Joint-Up Coordination to Forming Comprehensive Responses
5 Conclusion
References
The Evolving Role of FRONTEX in Implementing an EU Comprehensive Approach on Security
1 Introduction
2 The Operational Map
3 Conclusion
References
The Role of the European Commission/DG ECHO in Crisis Response and Institutional Cooperation for an EU Comprehensive Approach
1 Introduction
2 Challenges to European Integration
3 The European Institutions
4 Focusing on Elements of the EU´s Comprehensive Approach
References
Part III: EU, Russia and Transatlantic Challenges
Russia´s Challenges to International Security and the Western Response: Moscow´s Objectives in the Middle East
1 Introduction
2 Russian Foreign Policy
3 Conclusion: Means to an End
References
West v. Russia: A Role for Diplomacy
1 Introduction
2 The West´s Russian Dilemma
3 Epilogue
References
Transatlantic Relations at a Time of Uncertainty: The Formation of Transatlantic Axis
1 Introduction
2 Two Strategic Partners with Divergent Views?
2.1 On Power, Soft and Hard
2.2 On International Order
2.3 On Institutions
3 Evaluating Current Trends in Transatlantic Relations
References
Augmenting European Security and Defence: A Multiple Challenge for the EU
1 Introduction
2 From CSDP to the Security and Defence Union?
3 Building a Security Union
4 Towards a Defence Union?
5 Formulating an Advanced EU-NATO Cooperation to Serve the Security and Defence Union?
6 Conclusion
References
NATO Security Challenges
1 Introduction
2 Multifaceted Challenges to the Atlantic Alliance
3 Conclusion
References