The Battle for Authority in European Defence Cooperation

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introducing the Problem -- 1 Introduction -- The Innovation: European Defense Cooperation as a Regime Complex -- Researching the CSDP-Filling the Gaps -- Broadening the Perspective, Sharpening the Focus -- The Theoretical Argument in Brief -- Types of Interinstitutional Relations -- Causal Pathways to Authority Distributions -- The Empirical Findings in Brief -- Integration: The WEAG/WEAO and the EDA -- Marginalization: The EDA and OCCAR -- Fragmentation: PESCO and Regional Defense Cooperation -- Resilience: PESCO Withstanding Competition -- Confronting Alternative Explanations -- Plan of the Book -- References -- Part II Concepts and Theory -- 2 Authority Relations in Regime Complexes -- The Emergence and Consequences of Regime Complexes -- What Is a Regime Complex? -- How Do Regime Complexes Emerge? -- What Are the Consequences of Regime Complexity? -- Reducing Complexity: A Typology of Authority Distributions -- A Typology of Interinstitutional Relationships -- Summary -- References -- 3 Struggling for Authority in Regime Complexes -- Sources of Dissatisfaction -- Contestation and Power -- Condition I-Go-It-Alone Power -- Condition II-Membership Preference -- Explaining Authority Distributions -- Summary -- References -- Part III Explaining Authority Distributions in the European Defense Complex -- 4 European Defense Cooperation and Member State Preferences -- Research Design and Case Selection -- Member State Preferences on European Defense Cooperation -- References -- 5 Integrating the WEAO into the EDA: Toward a European Armaments Agency? -- Stagnation in Armaments Cooperation -- Dissatisfaction: The Principle of "juste retour" -- Reform Attempts Blocked-OCCAR and the LoI.