Security and Defence Cooperation in the EU

Dr. Christian Deubner

doi:10.5771/9783845287805

Summary

Against the backdrop of past and present challenges, the author of this book probes the comparative utility of the EU Member States’ principal cooperation options in security and defence in terms of their scope, institutions and procedures, and the EU Member States’ choices in this respect over the past two decades. EU Member States have not demonstrated a preference for cooperation in that policy area so far and are not likely to do so in the near future either. There is no specific common purpose that would justify a significant effort to strengthen future EU cooperation on its Common Security and Defence Policy in 2017. NATO, ad hoc coalition forming and UN peacekeeping appear and will appear more useful and important for EU Member States in the medium term.

In recent years observers have been struck by how much internal security threats, radical Islamist terror attacks and the Member States’ discord over migration have influenced the reorientation of the EU Member States’ external security and defence policies. In that increasingly important nexus, the author proposes ideas for a more systematic approach to research.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-4529-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-8780-5
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 271
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 11
Results in a nutshell No access Pages 13 - 14
1. 1. 1.a International Challenges No access
  2. 1.b EU Systemic Challenges No access
2. 1. 2.a The scope of this analysis and the prominence of ‘hard’ security aspects No access
  2. 2.b Method and Questions No access
3. 3 Summary No access
1. 1. 1. 1.a The Standard View: Impossible to Integrate No access
    2. 1.b A Dynamic Perspective No access
    3. 1.c The Research Question No access
    4. 1.d Normative and Comparative Benchmarks of Policy Integration in the EU No access
  2. 2 The Decisive Role of EU Member States’ External Security and Defence Policies No access
2. 1. 1 Perspectives of Armed Conflict and Violence Worldwide No access
  2. 1. 1. 2.a.a EU CFSP Reactions No access
    2. 2.b The Iran Nuclear Challenge No access
  3. 3 Civil Wars and Crisis in the South and South-East of the EU No access
  4. 4 Radical Islamist Terror No access
3. 1. 1. 1.a Conceptualisation No access
    2. 1.b Decision-Making No access
    3. 1.c Political Control, Strategic Direction and Command No access
  2. 1. 2.a The Absence of Common Threat Perceptions and Common Responses No access
    2. 2.b The Absence of Permanent Groups of Closer Defence Policy Cooperation No access
    3. 2.c The Absence of an ”Operational Headquarters for CSDP Military Operations” No access
    4. 1. 2.d.a The Difficult Coordination between Community Policies and CSDP Missions in the ‘Comprehensive Approach’ No access
      2. 2.d.b The Lack of EU Funding No access
    5. 1. 2.e.a Battlegroups No access
      2. 2.e.b EDA No access
    6. 2.f The Four Security and Defence Policies of the EU-MS No access
  3. 1. 3.a Intermediate Conclusion: The Narrow Scope of CSDP No access
    2. 3.b An Increasing Geographical Orientation towards Africa and –potentially– the Arabian Peninsula No access
  4. 1. 1. 4.a.a UN Setting the Rules No access
      2. 4.a.b UN also Setting the Operational Stage No access
      3. 4.a.c Summing up : No access
    2. 3.b France in Africa No access
    3. 4.c African Union, AU No access
    4. 4.d NATO No access
4. 1. 1. 1.a The Evolving Role of the US No access
    2. 1.b The Cohabitation with NATO No access
    3. 1.c The Irruption of Internal Security Objectives into CSDP No access
    4. 1.d A Potential Perspective of Higher Intensity Missions for the CSDP? No access
  2. 1. 2.a Strengthening Institutional Coordination at Commission Level – the Comprehensive Approach No access
  3. 1. 1. 3.a.a UK No access
      2. 3.a.b France No access
      3. 3.a.c Multilateralist Germany No access
    2. 3.b Intermediate Summing-Up No access
5. 1. 1. 1.a How to Reform CFSP/CSDP No access
    2. 1.b Utility and Ever-Closer-Union No access
  2. 1. 2.a EU-Institutions No access
    2. 2.b One National Government No access
    3. 2.c One Crucial Issue: NATO No access
  3. 1. 3.a The Making and the Limits of the EU Global Strategy No access
    2. 1. Assessment: No access
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        3.b.a.c The Place Accorded to CSDP-NATO No access
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      2. 3.b.b.a Permanent Structured Cooperation, PESCO No access
        3.b.b.b European Defence Agency EDA No access
        3.b.b.c.a Intergovernmental Coordination-Cooperation Approach. No access
        3.b.b.c.b Intergovernmental plus Community: The EU Commission’s ‘European Defence Action Plan’ No access
        3.b.b.c.c The Battlegroups No access
        Assessment: No access
6. 1. 1. 1.a The Point of Departure : The Result of Fourteen Years of EU-MS’ Choices in SDP Cooperation No access
    2. 1. Proposal: No access
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      2. 1.b.b.a The Differences between EU-MS’ Views on Security Challenges and the Appropriate Responses No access
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        Proposals: No access
        1.b.b.e Threats to EU Border System and Defence No access
        1.b.b.f Brexit No access
  2. 2 The Structural Aspects as Principal Impediment to the EU Global Strategy No access
  3. 3 Assessing EU integration of MS’ External Security Policy No access
1. 1. 1 The Link between Internal and External Aspects of Security Policies No access
  2. 2 Points of Departure No access
  3. 3 The Global Context No access
  4. 4 Operational Linking and Integration Deepening No access
  5. 5 How the Analysis Will Proceed No access
2. 1. 1 Enablers – the Tools of EU Policy No access
  2. 1. 2.a Two Geographical Fronts No access
    2. 2.b East and Southeast: No access
    3. 2.c South: No access
    4. 2.d Borders No access
    5. 2.e Africa: No access
    6. 2.f Serious Organised Crime No access
    7. 2.g Terrorism No access
  3. 1. 3.a UN Level No access
    2. 3.b Internal Security and Global Operational Cooperation No access
    3. 3.c International Police Organisation No access
  4. 4 Individual States and Law Enforcement Authorities, Inward and Outward Operational Linking No access
  5. 5 How to Differentiate between Internal (FSJ) and External (CSDP) Security Policies? No access
3. 1. 1. 1. 1.a.a Borders No access
      2. 1.a.b Counterterrorism No access
      3. 1.a.c Organised Crime – mainly in Drugs Trafficking No access
      4. 1.a.d.a The Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community No access
  2. 1. 2.a Military Flanking of FSJ-centred Missions No access
    2. 2.b FSJ-Flanking of Military-centred Missions No access
  3. 1. 1. 3.a.a EU Internal Coordination Weaknesses No access
      2. 3.a.b EU and Member States No access
      3. 3.a.c Border Management and Mobility Partnerships No access
      4. 3.a.d Funding No access
4. 1. 1. 1. 1.a.a The Commission No access
      2. 1.a.b The Council and the Parliament No access
      3. 1.a.c Concluding Assessment No access
    2. 1.b Operational Linking and Leveraged Policies No access
  2. 1. 2.a Counterterrorism: Post-CharlieHebdo Accents Set by Foreign Ministers No access
    2. 1. 2.b.a Operational Linking of EU and EU-MS’ Internal Security Policy: Migrations and Security Challenges in the Central Mediterranean No access
      2. 2.b.b EUFORNAVMed and Libyan Coast Guards No access
      3. 2.b.c.a Italy No access
        2.b.c.b Spain No access
        2.b.c.c The UK No access
  3. 1. 3.a Closing the Balkans-Route, Suspending the Schengen-Dublin-System No access
  4. 1. 4.a The EU-Turkey Compromise of 2016 No access
    2. 4.b The Dimensions of the Challenge No access
    3. 4.c The EU’s Options No access
  5. 5 The ‚Global Strategy‘-Report of the High Representative/Vice President of the Commission No access
5. 1. 1 The Development of Operational Linking No access
  2. 2 The Rapprochement of Internal and External Security Policy No access
  3. 3 How Do EU-MS Differentiate between the two Security Policies and their Application? No access
  4. 1. Part 2: Main points to retain on the operational linking – integration deepening issue. No access
Bibliography No access Pages 260 - 271