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Chapter 2 addresses the politics underpinning a strategy: the “why” of strategy-making. Why does an international actor like the European Union produce a strategy? It begins by assessing the political motivations behind the 2003 European Security Strategy, which was deeply shaped by the scarring experience of the war in Iraq and the intra-European and transatlantic divisions that it sowed. It then addresses the political context of the EU in 2015–2016 when the EU Global Strategy was developed. In the case of the EUGS , political unity was one of the rationales for strategy-making, as it had been back in 2003. But alongside this, the EUGS also sought to provide a sense of policy direction and to join up institutions and players in the EU foreign policy machinery so as to increase the effectiveness of external action.
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Tocci, N. (2017). Why Have a Strategy?. In: Framing the EU Global Strategy. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55586-7_2
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