The European Union and National Defence Policy (State and the European Union)

✍ Scribed by Jolyon Howorth

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
DEFENCE, INTEGRATION AND THE STATE......Page 12
CONSTRAINTS ON THE AUTONOMY OF THE STATE......Page 15
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK......Page 18
REFERENCES......Page 19
1 National defence and European security integration......Page 22
NOTES......Page 31
REFERENCES......Page 32
2 France......Page 34
THE 1980S AND THE EMERGENCE OF ‘EUROPEANISATION’......Page 35
The new definition of ‘security’......Page 39
Nuclear doctrine......Page 40
Strategic doctrine......Page 43
The institutional framework......Page 44
Europeanisation and procurement......Page 48
The role of prevention......Page 50
The defence industry and europeanisation......Page 51
NOTES......Page 53
REFERENCES......Page 56
GERMANY AND EUROPEAN DEFENCE......Page 60
Domestic pressures......Page 64
International pressures......Page 66
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND DEFENCE AUTONOMY......Page 69
CONCLUSIONS......Page 72
NOTES......Page 73
REFERENCES......Page 74
4 Italy......Page 76
TRENDS IN ITALIAN DEFENCE POLICY SINCE 1945......Page 78
THE CONDITION OF THE ARMED FORCES......Page 82
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENCE POLICY: THE CHANGING EUROPEAN CONTEXT......Page 85
THE DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENT AND DECISION MAKING......Page 89
CONCLUSION......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 94
INTRODUCTION......Page 96
THE EVOLUTION OF POST-WAR DEFENCE POLICY......Page 98
THE DUTCH DEFENCE POSTURE AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR......Page 103
THE FUTURE OF DUTCH DEFENCE POLICY......Page 108
CONCLUSION......Page 110
NOTES......Page 111
REFERENCES......Page 112
6 The United Kingdom......Page 114
NOTES......Page 127
REFERENCES......Page 128
INTRODUCTION......Page 130
ARTICLE 223 AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION......Page 131
PRESSURES FOR OPEN COMPETITION......Page 133
COLLABORATION—AN ALTERNATIVE......Page 134
POST-COLD WAR PRESSURES......Page 137
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS......Page 140
A MODEST WAY FORWARD......Page 145
REFERENCES......Page 147
INTRODUCTION......Page 150
THE DEBATE OVER, AND PRESSURE FOR, EUROPEANISATION......Page 151
The prevalence of Atlanticism......Page 152
Challenges of sovereignty and status......Page 153
Institutional limitations......Page 154
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN NUCLEAR IDENTITY: POSSIBILITIES......Page 155
CONCLUSION......Page 160
REFERENCES......Page 161
THE EUROPEAN UNION, DEFENCE POLICY AND STATE AUTONOMY......Page 164
NATO AND EUROPEAN DEFENCE CO-OPERATION......Page 169
CONCLUSION......Page 177
REFERENCES......Page 179
Index......Page 182