European Defence Cooperation

Autores

  • Isabel Ferreira Nunes Holds a PhD in Political Science at the University of Twente and a post-doc at the University of Groningen, Department of International Relations and International Organization and has collaborated with the Clingendael Institute. She is Head of the Research Department at the National Defense Institute and national representative at the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defense College and Director of the National Defence Course. She was Deputy Director of the National Defence Institute between 2006 and 2008 and Head of Division of the Research Department between 1996 and 2006. Her fields of expertise are IR theories, small states and European foreign, security and defence policy.

Resumo

The article offers a view on the state of events and initiatives leading to recent developments in European defence cooperation from June 2016 – when the EU Global Strategy was presented – till June 2018 – when a call for the evaluation of progress of PESCO projects was endorsed by the Council. It argues that despite being presented as an inclusive and binding endeavour, European defence cooperation comprises political, technological and operational standards, which are not accessible to all Member States for reasons of national interest, technological and industrial gap and operationaloutput. However, the developments of the past two years seem to have been having an incremental effect on defence cooperation, regarding the identification and agreement on strategic priorities and the development of financial incentives and processes that may consolidate European defence cooperation, as claimed by the EUGS.



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Publicado

2024-08-22

Edição

N.º 150 (2018): European Defence

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