Overview
- Has important implications for future research in regime complexity, European integration
- Provides novel insights into the conflicts between EU member states that have characterized EDA’s development
- Analyses the regularities of the pervasive trend towards ever more institutional complexity in global governance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing the Problem
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Concepts and Theory
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Explaining Authority Distributions in the European Defense Complex
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Assessment
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About this book
This book addresses one of the most profound transformations in international governance: the proliferation of regime complexity. Regime complexes can be found wherever state interests clash. Thus, even in one of the most constitutionalized of institutional environments, the European Union (EU), regime complexity features prominently – especially in European defence cooperation, where states have created competing institutions overlapping in their mandates to organize armaments cooperation or defence planning. The tense relationship between the institutions of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and those of NATO is well-known. Yet inter-institutional conflict is not limited to this dichotomy. It extends to institutions beyond these two frameworks, such as those of the former Western European Union and regional defence cooperation frameworks such as the Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO), or OCCAR – a minilateral armaments agency. All these institutions have partially overlapping membership structures and mandates and therefore rival authority claims in the field of European defence. This book uncovers the hidden regularities of the ongoing battle for institutional authority among EU member states.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Felix Biermann is Research Fellow at the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich, Germany. His areas of interest are European Integration, International Institutions, Cyber Security, and Security Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Battle for Authority in European Defence Cooperation
Authors: Felix Biermann
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30054-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30053-0Published: 15 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30056-1Due: 15 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30054-7Published: 14 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 321
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Military and Defence Studies, International Organization, International Relations, Governance and Government