Security and Defence Cooperation in the EU: A Matter of Utility and Choice

Cover -- Results in a nutshell -- Introductory Remarks and Summary -- 1 Contexts -- 1.a International Challenges -- 1.b EU Systemic Challenges -- 2 Objectives, Methods and Questions -- 2.a The scope of this analysis and the prominence of 'hard' security aspects -- 2.b Method and Questions -- 3 Summary -- Part 1: Which Cooperation for External Security, in the EU of 2017 ? -- Chapter 1: Operationalizing Objectives, Methods and Questions -- 1 Integration of 'Core Powers'? -- 1.a The Standard View: Impossible to Integrate -- 1.b A Dynamic Perspective -- 1.c The Research Question -- 1.d Normative and Comparative Benchmarks of Policy Integration in the EU -- 2 The Decisive Role of EU Member States' External Security and Defence Policies -- Chapter 2: Security Challenges and the Evolution of EU Policy until 2015 -- 1 Perspectives of Armed Conflict and Violence Worldwide -- 2 Russia and Iran -- 2.a Crimea and Ukraine -- 2.a.a EU CFSP Reactions -- 2.b The Iran Nuclear Challenge -- 3 Civil Wars and Crisis in the South and South-East of the EU -- 4 Radical Islamist Terror -- Chapter 3: CSDP-Enablers and their Shortcomings -- 1 Internal Enablers : CSDP Institutions and Procedures, and the EU-MS -- 1.a Conceptualisation -- 1.b Decision-Making -- 1.c Political Control, Strategic Direction and Command -- 2 Shortcomings of Internal Enablers -- 2.a The Absence of Common Threat Perceptions and Common Responses -- 2.b The Absence of Permanent Groups of Closer Defence Policy Cooperation -- 2.c The Absence of an "Operational Headquarters for CSDP Military Operations" -- 2.d The CSDP's Structural Incapacity of Rapid Executive Action in Intervention -- 2.d.a The Difficult Coordination between Community Policies and CSDP Missions in the 'Comprehensive Approach' -- 2.d.b The Lack of EU Funding -- 2.e The Fragmentation of the EU's Military Instrument