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In Search of Shared Autonomy: The EU as a Restricted Foreign, Security and Defence Political Actor

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European Autonomy in Space

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International relations in the twenty-first century are characterised by the lack of a clearly defined systemic order. Contrary to the period of bipolarity, there is no easy-to-be-found description available, indicating whether a general model for global security can be defined. Consequently, analysing the role of the European Union (EU) as an international actor and specifically European foreign, security and defence policy has to be seen against that background. Furthermore, a multitude of actors, interests as well as institutional, legal and systemic specificities, need to be considered. Such sources of influence originate within the system of the EU as well as outside the EU.

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    Of course, if the EU is considered as a multilevel system of governance, then a third level, i.e. the subnational level, has to be taken into account too. However, with respect to the security political dimension discussed here, this third level will not be addressed (not disregarding that especially in the field of internal security, competencies of subnational units are often affected by decisions on the supranational level).

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    Krasner distinguishes four different meanings of sovereignty: international legal sovereignty, Westphalian sovereignty, domestic sovereignty and interdependence sovereignty [18].

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    With the Lisbon Treaty, the ESDP was renamed as the CSDP. Other initiatives to be mentioned include, e.g. the German-French Security and Defence Council, which declared in Toulouse in May 1999 that the integration of the Western European Union (WEU) into the EU was necessary, or the common British-Italian proposal of July 1999, in which experiences in the Balkans were taken into consideration in order to demand an improvement of European defence capabilities.

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    Figures for 2013. For more details, see “Financial framework 2007–2013.” European Commission—Financial Programming and Budget 2 Oct. 2013. http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/fin_fwk0713/fwk0713_en.cfm

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Algieri, F. (2015). In Search of Shared Autonomy: The EU as a Restricted Foreign, Security and Defence Political Actor. In: Al-Ekabi, C. (eds) European Autonomy in Space. Studies in Space Policy, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11110-0_5

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