An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP.

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Copyright
Contents
Preface
Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: The Role of Theory in Research on Common Security and Defence Policy
2. Neorealism: A Structural Approach to CSDP
3. CSDP: Approaching Transgovernmentalism?
4. CSDP: The Strategic Perspective
5. The Social Constructivist Sensibility and CSDP Research
6. Sociological Institutionalism, Socialisation and the Brusselisation of CSDP
7. Bricolage: A Sociological Approach to the Making of CSDP
8. A Historical Materialist Approach to CSDP
9. Applying Foucault’s Toolkit to CSDP
10. The Praxis of Romania’s Euro-Atlantic Security Field: A Bourdieu-Inspired Research Agenda
11. Conclusion: The Way Ahead for Research into CSDP
Index

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Print ISBN

9780230277830

Subtopic

European Politics

eBook ISBN

9780230355729

Index

Politics & International Relations

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