The Battle for Authority in European Defence Cooperation

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), reg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biermann, Felix
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introducing the Problem
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part II. Concepts and Theory
  • 2. Authority relations in regime complexes
  • 3. Struggling for authority in regime complexes
  • Part III. Explaining authority distributions in the European defense complex
  • 4. European defence cooperation and member state preferences
  • 5. Integrating the WEAO into the EDA: Toward a European armaments agency?
  • 6. The marginalization of the EDA: False premises, false promises?
  • 7. The fragmentation of European defense planning: PESCO’s deep sleep
  • 8. PESCO’s resilience: Jumpstarting the bandwagon
  • Part IV. Assessment
  • 9. Confronting contenders
  • 10. Quo vadis, CSDP?