Security Co-operation beyond the Nation-State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
Security Co-operation beyond the Nation-State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
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超越民族国家的安全合作:欧盟的共同安全与防务政策
DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02126.x
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2010
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BICKERTON C
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BICKERTON C
The security policies of the European Union have in recent years become a central concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. A senior EU official has commented wryly that, whilst only around 200 officials actually ‘do’the EU’s common security and defence policy (CSDP), 1 there appear to be many thousands of academics and students all over the world who engage in its study (Howorth, 2007, p. 4). Leading European officials regularly cite security policy as central to the role and purpose of contemporary European integration. In Javier Solana’s words, in the past the EU was intended to secure peace in Europe; today, it is about being a peace-builder in the rest of the world (Solana, 2007).Several factors explain this burgeoning interest. First, whilst security and defence policies were long considered by students of the EU as the poor cousins of economic integration (Øhrgaard, 1997), they are increasingly viewed as central to the process of European integration. Here can be seen