The New Intergovernmentalism and Experiential Learning in the Common Security and Defence Policy

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Abstract

European Union foreign and security policy cooperation has expanded since 1992 through the use of pragmatic and informal working methods. This informal approach faced a series of major challenges after 2003, when the EU began to undertake foreign security assistance operations under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Within the space of just a few years, the Union found itself organizing a range of complex CSDP operations involving police forces, rule of law tasks, border monitoring, peace monitoring, and, in some cases, the projection of air, land, and naval forces into conflict zones. This chapter seeks to make sense of these developments and in so doing arrive at a more general theoretical argument regarding the relationship between experiential learning and the new intergovernmentalism.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe New Intergovernmentalism
Subtitle of host publicationStates and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era
EditorsChristopher J Bickerton, Dermot Hodson, Uwe Puetter
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Chapter5
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9780198703617
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jul 2015

Keywords

  • European Union
  • CSDP
  • Foreign policy
  • Security
  • Defence
  • Learning

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