The European Defence Agency Arming Europe
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 269.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
20.04.2015
Herausgeber
Karampekios Nikolaos + weitereVerlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
294
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16.1/2 cm
Gewicht
566 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-138-79997-4
This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution. Armaments collaboration and policy integration have always seemed too technical and economic in nature to researchers working in the field of European security and defence. Thus, the production of arms is usually seen as a footnote in the grand text of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The European Defence Agency (EDA) has been itself a victim of this hesitation. Despite its critical role in European strategic and military affairs as the key hub of European policy-making in the field of armaments, the Agency has hitherto received very little attention by the academic and research community around Europe. To fill this gap in the literarure, this book covers a multitude of inter-related themes and topics. These include: novel theoretical approaches to agency formation and armaments collaboration; the political role of industrial actors; capability development in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) framework; technological and research foundations of EU security policy; the past and present of European armaments collaboration; the formation of a European defence equipment market; member-state reactions to EU defence and armaments policies; the transatlantic dimension of European military-industrial cooperation; the development of EU strategic considerations; the agenda of permanent structured cooperation and pooling & sharing; the protection of a European defence, technological and industrial base; the practice of offsets; and the military use of space. In sum, the book combines an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European defence with theoretical and ontological pluralism, and moves beyond the mere citation of numbers and technical requirements to unveil the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of armaments collaboration and capability development under the aegis of the EDA. At the heart of such a move lies the conception of security and defence as social products rather than as pre-existing givens, both touching upon the Union's institutional structures; hegemonic transnational interests; inter-state contradictions; industrial, technological and research capabilities; and the strategic, discursive and ideological reproduction of reality. The multi-faceted orientation of the book will be of much interest to students of European Security, EU institutions, defence studies, arms control and IR in general.
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