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"""Defending Europe"" seeks to clarify the competing ambitions, the contrasting visions and the trans Atlantic tensions related to the recent quest by Europe for autonomy in the sphere of security and defense. Scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the development of ESDI within NATO, the revival of the WEU and the launch of the EU's Common European Security and Defense Policy. Among the issues discussed are the Euro American capabilities gap, concerns regarding decoupling, discrimination, and duplication, and the complications posed by NATO/EU enlargement. Two contrary conclusions debate whether ESDP is more likely to strengthen or undermine the Atlantic Alliance."

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Author:   J. Howorth ,  J. Keeler
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781403961143

ISBN 10:   140396114
Pages:   247
Publication Date:   08 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'The volume succeeds in highlighting the competing ambitions, the contrasting visions and the transatlantic tensions related to the quest by Europe for autonomy in the sphere of security and defence...The verdict on the European security and defence policy as well as that on the future of NATO is still ongoing. The book does justice to this ongoing debate. - International Affairs ' [Defending Europe] examines the European Union's current attempts to establish a defence system within the overall security architecture of the Atlantic world...The essays in Defending Europe, provide an expert and dispassionate treatment of the complex issues involved.' - The Economist

'The volume succeeds in highlighting the competing ambitions, the contrasting visions and the transatlantic tensions related to the quest by Europe for autonomy in the sphere of security and defence...The verdict on the European security and defence policy as well as that on the future of NATO is still ongoing. The book does justice to this ongoing debate. - International Affairs ' [Defending Europe] examines the European Union's current attempts to establish a defence system within the overall security architecture of the Atlantic world...The essays in Defending Europe, provide an expert and dispassionate treatment of the complex issues involved.' - The Economist

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JOLYON HOWORTH is Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath, UK. He has published extensively in the field of European security and defence policy and French history and politics - twelve books and over eighty journal articles and chapters in books. Recent books include European Integration and Defence: The Ultimate Challenge? (Paris, WEU-Institute for Security Studies, 2000); The European Union and National Defence Policy, (co-edited, Routledge, 1997). Articles have appeared in leading international relations and history journals. JOHN T.S. KEELER is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for West European Studies/European Union Center at the University of Washington (Seattle). His previous books include The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic (Oxford), Reformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique (Presses Universitaires de France), Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (St. Martin's) and Agricultural Policy (Edward Elgar). He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and the Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Agricole by the French Ministry of Agriculture.

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