Language:
English
In:
European defence policy: beyond the nation state, 2008, p.xvi-xvi
Description:
This book explains the creation of the European Union's Security and Defense Policy—to this day the most ambitious project of peacetime military integration. Whether hailed as a vital step in the integration of Europe or berated as a wasteful threat to US power, European citizens are increasingly interested in the common defense policy. Today, “European Defense” is more popular than the European Union itself, even in Great Britain. This book addresses the fundamental challenge posed by military integration to the way we think about the state in the 21st century. Looking back over the past fifty years, it shows how statesmen, diplomats, and soldiers have converged towards Brussels as a “natural” solution to their concerns but also as something worth fighting over. The actors most closely associated to the formation of nation-states are now shaping a transgovernmental security and defense arena. As a result, defense policy is being denationalized. Exploring the complex relations between the state, the military, and citizenship in today's Europe, the book argues that European Defense is a symptom, but not a cause, of the transformation of the state. This book is an original contribution to the theory of European integration. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book develops a political sociology of international relations which seeks to bridge institutionalism and constructivism. This careful study of practices, social representations, and power structures sheds new light on security and defense cooperation, but also on European cooperation more generally.
Subject(s):
Common Foreign and Security Policy ; Comparative Politics ; Defence policy ; Defenses ; Europe ; European Union ; International Relations ; Military policy ; National security ; Regional security
ISBN:
9780199533244
ISBN:
0199533245
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533244.001.0001
Source:
Oxford Scholarship Online
Source:
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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