EU-NATO Relations

Running on the Fumes of Informed Deconfliction

Simon J. Smith, Carmen Gebhard, Nina Graeger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781138318557
• eBook ISBN: 9780429845789
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

For almost fifteen years, both the EU and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have claimed to partake in a relationship that is purported to be a 'Strategic Partnership', albeit one that is troubled by lasting political blockages. The constraints that affect the formal relationship between the two organizations are well-covered terrain in the academic literature – including by most of the contributors to this volume; however, the popular argument that the EU and NATO simply do not cooperate in any substantive way warrants deeper investigation, both theoretically and thematically. Thus, EU-NATO relations might not at first seem like an under-researched area, but much of the existing literature on the issue re-engages oversimplified and formulaic statements about the nature, quality, and practice of interactions between the EU and NATO.

This volume aims to develop the EU-NATO research agenda by pursuing three key objectives: (1) reduce the lacuna of theoretically informed analyses of the relationship, (2) add empirically and analytically rigorous case studies to the relevant body of literature, and (3) point to possible developments and solutions in the 'Strategic Partnership'.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in European Security.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: EU–NATO relations: running on the fumes of informed deconfliction
• 1 Theorising inter-organisational relations: the “EU–NATO relationship” as a catalytic case study
• 2 Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added value of practice approaches
• 3 The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost: a Grounded Theory approach to the comparative study of decision-making in the NAC and PSC
• 4 The EU and NATO’s dilemmas with Russia and the prospects for deconfliction
• 5 The EU, NATO and the European defence market: do institutional responses to defence globalisation matter?
• 6 The Single European Sky: a window of opportunity for EU–NATO relations
• 7 The EU and NATO in Georgia: complementary and overlapping security strategies in a precarious environment
• 8 EU–NATO cooperation: the key to Europe’s security future
• Index