European Union Security Dynamics In the New National Interest [Hardcover]

This book shows how France and Britain are leaders in EU security and defense policy, and explains why both states need each other in this policy area. The lack of relevant military capacity in Europe today implies that the US favors a strong EU in this field.Introduction PART I: SECURITY POLICY IN EUROPE Post-National Security Policy in Europe EU Security and Defence Policy: Legitimacy and Capability EU Security Dynamics: The New National Interests PART II: EU SECURITY DYNAMICS: PURSUING NATIONAL INTERESTS Playing the Great Game: France, Britain, and Germany Playing the Two-Level Game: France, Britain, Germany PART III: INCURRING SECURITY POLICY DEPENDENCIES Coalitions of the Able: The Pooling of Military Capacity in the ESDP Coalitions of the Willing: The Pooling of Sovereignty in the ESDP

'Janne Matlary's book is an imaginative and penetrating study of the pivotal role of the French and British axis in EU security policy by one of Norway's most creative and thoughtful political analysts. This is a thoroughly thought provoking work.'

- Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK

'This book is lucid and well-argued, and reminds us of the recently neglected influence of member states' national interests in the development of ESDP [...] Matlary's analysis is genuinely interesting for students of European studies and it would be essential reading in undergraduate and postgraduate courses of European integration.'

- Journal of Global Analysis

'It's always a pleasure to welcome a book which profits from both academic analysis and professional practice. Janne Haaland Matlary, Professor of International Politics at the University of Oslo and former Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway, offers just this ideal synthesis [. . .] This book is a useful corrective to both lazy theorising about the socialisation of European elites and to an unthinking disregarlÓQ