Transaction Costs and Security Institutions: Unravelling the ESDP

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-18
Theorising Preference Formation for Institution-Building in European Security....Pages 19-28
Transaction Costs and Security Institutions....Pages 29-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
The Demand for a Security Institution: German, British and French Perceptions of the Environment in the 1990s....Pages 53-59
Germany — From Defending the Alliance’s Territory to Crisis Management for the Union....Pages 60-78
Great Britain — From Opposing the Union towards a Subordinated ESDP....Pages 79-96
France — From Gradual WEU Integration to Full-Scale ESDP....Pages 97-113
Germany — An Incrementally Decreasing Willingness to Bind the Country....Pages 114-134
Great Britain — From No EU Security Policy to a Purely Intergovernmental ESDP....Pages 135-151
France — A Consistently Intergovernmental Approach towards ESDP....Pages 152-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Alternative Explanations and Theoretical Scope of the Transaction Costs Framework....Pages 173-188
Conclusion — Theory-Development in the European Security and Defence Policy....Pages 189-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-269