Neither Winners nor Losers: A Reconsideration of EU/Member State Relations with Attention to Defense Policy
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Authors
Edwards, Ian K.
Issue Date
2013
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Thesis
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en_US
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This paper explores Europe's integration with attention to defense policy,
which has historically been the purview of Europe's member states. While Europe's
member states retain a monopoly over their national defense, the supranational
European Union (EU) is making inroads. The gaining importance of common
defense and security policies are evidenced most especially in the European
Security and Defense Policy (ESDP, 1999), the evolution of the Helsinki Headline
Goals (1999) and the expansion of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in
the wake of the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon (2008). I suggest that member
states have come to rely on these supranational defense policies and institutions to
such an extent that conventional considerations of state versus supranational power
and the consequent struggles over defense policy and sovereignty must be viewed
through a less dichotomous lens. In sum, the power of states to act defensively may
actually be strengthened by Europe's supranational policies.
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v, 78 p.
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