Securing Europe European Security in an American Epoch [Hardcover]

Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach. Watanabe argues that Europeanization as a process of change takes place not as a result of rationally calculating states, but as a result of the reworking of perceptual and normative frameworks.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction A Sociological Institutionalist Approach to Europeanization The European Security and Defence Policy Justice and Home Affairs post-September 11 The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Conclusion: Socio-Functional Europeanization NotesLISA WATANABE is Research Officer for the programme on Geopoliticial Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Secutrity Policy, Switzerland.