The quest for a European strategic culture
| Titel: | The quest for a European strategic culture : changing norms on security and defence in the European Union / Christoph O. Meyer, Lecturer in European Studies, King's College, University of London |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Umfang: | xii, 211 Seiten : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9781403992802 ; 1403992800 |
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- List of Tables and Figures
- p. vii
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- List of Abbreviations
- p. xii
- 1
- A European Strategic Culture in the Making? Introducing a Constructivist Approach
- p. 1
- Introducing the puzzle: the normative foundations of a European security and defence policy
- p. 2
- A social science approach to studying norms
- p. 6
- Outlining key findings
- p. 10
- Conclusion: the path beyond
- p. 13
- 2
- How do Strategic Cultures Change? Three Mechanisms of Normative Change
- p. 15
- Strategic culture, norms and causality
- p. 15
- Unpacking strategic culture and norms
- p. 19
- Normative and cultural change: conditions, agents, processes
- p. 24
- Towards a European strategic culture? Conceptualising normative change and convergence in Europe
- p. 27
- Conclusion: on the path to Humanitarian Power Europe?
- p. 42
- 3
- The Impact of Changing Threat Perceptions on Strategic Thinking in Europe after 1989
- p. 43
- Threat perceptions and collective norms
- p. 43
- Formative experiences, threat perceptions and strategic norms before the end of the Cold War
- p. 48
- Cognitive and normative change after 9/11 and 11/9
- p. 59
- Conclusion: towards a consensus on defence co-operation, but not on pre-emption
- p. 75
- 4
- The Impact of Mediatised Crisis Learning on Collective Norms
- p. 78
- The impact of post-Cold War crises on press debates
- p. 78
- The qualitative analysis of media content
- p. 80
- Bosnia: ethnic cleansing and the late resolve to act
- p. 83
- Kosovo: 'never again' and the first cracks of Atlanticism
- p. 90
- Iraq: the Atlanticist cleavage and the domestic authorisation crisis
- p. 98
- Comparison across cases and countries
- p. 105
- Discussion: political affiliation and cross-country similarities
- p. 110
- 5
- Social Influence through Institutions: the Case of the Political and Security Committee
- p. 112
- The ESDP set-up and the role of the PSC
- p. 112
- The dynamics and variables of social influence
- p. 117
- Social influence in and through the PSC?
- p. 120
- Manufacturing consent on ESDP? The cases of the European Security Strategy, Artemis and Althea
- p. 132
- Conclusion: a multiplier of social influence and piecemeal norm convergence
- p. 135
- 6
- Do Europeans Think Alike About the Use of Force? Synthesising and Theorising the Findings
- p. 138
- Converging strategic norms? Revisiting the hypotheses
- p. 138
- A narrow and shallow European strategic culture? The compatibility of norms and identity conceptions
- p. 155
- The easing weight of history or unlearning lessons? Examining and categorising cross-national variation
- p. 164
- 7
- European Strategic Culture and the Prospects for European Defence
- p. 171
- What kind of European defence is possible? Exploring key choices for ESDP's evolution and operation
- p. 172
- Implications for European defence, diplomacy and decision-making
- p. 184
- Appendix: Survey of Parliamentarians and Experts
- p. 189
- I
- Personal characteristics and party affiliation
- p. 189
- II
- Norms and perceptions concerning national security and defence policy
- p. 190
- Bibliography
- p. 200
- Index
- p. 209
