European Union Security and Defence: Policies, Operations and Transatlantic Challenges

Foreword About the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
Preface
Acknowledgments
Disclaimer
Contents
Contributors
Part I: The EU Internal-External Security Nexus
	Soft Power, European Security Strategy and Radicalism: Cultural, Religious and Dimensional Challenges
		1 Introduction
		2 Soft Power Elements as Normative Tools
		3 Soft Power and the Challenge of Multiculturalism
		4 Soft Power and Interreligious Dialogue
		5 Soft Power Within the EU´s Institutional Setting
		6 Soft Power and Islamic Radicalism
		7 The Spatial Dimension of Exercising Soft Power and Internal Soft Balancing
		8 Radicalism, Soft Power and EU Internal Security
		9 Internal Balancing
		References
	The Strategic Context of the European Security and Defence Policy
		1 Introduction
		2 The American Factor: The Pivot to Asia and the Trump Administration
		3 Brexit from European and Security Policy?
		4 The Evolving Strategic Context in the EU of Limited Resources
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Securitization: Theoretical Underpinnings and Implications
		1 Introduction
		2 Securitization and Security as a Speech Act
		3 Securitization and Security Beyond the Speech Act?
		4 (De)securitization and Implications for Politics
		5 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Small EU Member States and the European Security and Defence Integration
		1 Introduction
		2 Small States and the EU
		3 Small States and the ESDP
		4 Different Small Member States Have Different Approaches to the ESDP
		5 Developments in the Areas of Security and Defence and the New Challenges for Small States
		6 Conclusion
		References
Part II: EU Operations: From the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) to the European External Action Service (EEAS)
	EU Peace Operations in a Changing World: A Multilayer Evaluation
		1 Introduction
		2 Soft Power as the Foundation of EU Involvement in the World
		3 EU Peace Operations as an Expression of Multilateralism
		4 Hindrances to the EU Peace Operations
		5 Epilogue
		References
	European Participation in International Military Operations: National Decision-Making and the Role of EU Institutions
		1 Challenges to the EU
		2 Institutions and the Challenge to Defence
		3 The EU at a Crossroad
		References
	The European External Action Service: An Encompassing and Adaptive Agency at the Service of the EU Global Security Strategy?
		1 Introduction
		2 Theorizing Dynamic Hybridities of the EEAS
		3 Multifaceted Security Challenges Drive the Form of Policy Formation by the EEAS
		4 Cooperation Hybridity to Serve Interoperability: Joint-Up Coordination to Forming Comprehensive Responses
		5 Conclusion
		References
	The Evolving Role of FRONTEX in Implementing an EU Comprehensive Approach on Security
		1 Introduction
		2 The Operational Map
		3 Conclusion
		References
	The Role of the European Commission/DG ECHO in Crisis Response and Institutional Cooperation for an EU Comprehensive Approach
		1 Introduction
		2 Challenges to European Integration
		3 The European Institutions
		4 Focusing on Elements of the EU´s Comprehensive Approach
		References
Part III: EU, Russia and Transatlantic Challenges
	Russia´s Challenges to International Security and the Western Response: Moscow´s Objectives in the Middle East
		1 Introduction
		2 Russian Foreign Policy
		3 Conclusion: Means to an End
		References
	West v. Russia: A Role for Diplomacy
		1 Introduction
		2 The West´s Russian Dilemma
		3 Epilogue
		References
	Transatlantic Relations at a Time of Uncertainty: The Formation of Transatlantic Axis
		1 Introduction
		2 Two Strategic Partners with Divergent Views?
			2.1 On Power, Soft and Hard
			2.2 On International Order
			2.3 On Institutions
		3 Evaluating Current Trends in Transatlantic Relations
		References
	Augmenting European Security and Defence: A Multiple Challenge for the EU
		1 Introduction
		2 From CSDP to the Security and Defence Union?
		3 Building a Security Union
		4 Towards a Defence Union?
		5 Formulating an Advanced EU-NATO Cooperation to Serve the Security and Defence Union?
		6 Conclusion
		References
	NATO Security Challenges
		1 Introduction
		2 Multifaceted Challenges to the Atlantic Alliance
		3 Conclusion
		References