This course gives a wide-ranging introduction into European Defence, its development as a policy area on the level of the European Union, its actors, paradigms and instruments. Areas to be explored also include international and multilateral partners of European Defence as well as current problems and challenges. Defence policy is a sensitive and highly political field, one that is embedded in a context of geopolitical great-power competition and complex international relations. The course thus asks where European Defence should be heading so that an ambitious but underperforming international actor such as the EU can hope to wield influence more effectively in the New World Disorder.
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European Union: A Global Strategy for the European Union. Brussels 2016.
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Daniel Fiott: Defence Matters: Ten Years of European Defence and What Has Really Been Achieved? CSDS Policy Brief 32/2023.
Knud Erik Jørgensen et al. (eds.): The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy. Thousand Oaks 2015.
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Helen Wallace et al. (eds.): Policy-Making in the European Union. Oxford 2010.
Jolyon Howorth: European Defence and the Changing Politics of the European Union: Hanging Together or Hanging Separately?, in: JCMS 39(4) (2001), 765-789.
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