Volume 42 (2019), Edition 1

Germany has been at the heart of European integration since Chancellor Adenauer’s commitment to “Westbindung” in the early 1950s. In the 2010s it has become the European Union’s (EU) indispensable power. Indispensability has placed...

One of the main reasons for the Common Security and Defence Policy’s (CSDP) limited capacity to act are diverging beliefs within the European Union (EU) concerning the use of military force. Particularly, the contrast between the current German...

Cooperation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has recently produced a remarkable dynamism when looking at the newly established Military Planning and Conduct Capability, the European Defence Fund and the Permanent Structured...

EU agencies play an important role in shaping European policies. This is also reflected in the academic discourse, which in recent years has scrutinised a wide variety of aspects of EU agencies - in different ways. This article assesses the current,...