Explaining the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy Theory in Action

by Kurowska, Xymena; Breuer, Fabian

• ISBN13: 9780230277830
• ISBN10: 0230277837
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP.

Author Biography

XYMENA KUROWSKA Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She teaches International Security Theory, Statebuilding and European Politics. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Georgia and Ukraine, researching externally assisted reforms in transitional societies.

FABIAN BREUER works in the Presidency of the European University Institute. He previously worked as project manager of the European Union Democracy Observatory and the EU Profiler and was also a project associate with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, Germany, and worked for the press office of Javier Solana.

Table of Contents

Foreword; J.Solana
Introduction: The Role of Theory in the Study of Common Security and Defence Policy; X.Kurowska
Neorealism; A.Hyde-Price
The Common Security and Defence Policy: Approaching Transgovernmentalism?; S.C.Hofmann
CSDP: The Strategic Perspective; S.Biscop&P.M.Norheim-Martinsen
The Social Constructivist Sensibility and CSDP Research; X.Kurowska&F.Kratochwil
Sociological Institutionalism, Socialisation, and the Brussalisation of CSDP; F.Breuer
Bricolage: A Sociological Approach to the Making of European Defence; F.Merand
A Historical Materialist Approach to CSDP; I.Oikonomou
Applying Foucault's Toolkit to CSDP; M.Merlingen
The Praxis of Romania's Euro-Atlantic Security Field: A Bourdieu-Inspired Research Agenda; R.O.Csernatoni
Conclusion: The Way Ahead for Research into CSDP; X.Kurowska&F.Breuer