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What comes after a Strategy is published? The European Security Strategy was not, according to its own drafters, a Strategy: it outlined the goals but said little about the means to achieve them. In many respects, it can be described as a strategic concept, rather than as a strategy proper. As such, little deliberate action followed as the implementation of the ESS. While this was a choice that fully reflected the needs of the EU at the time, 13 years later, the concurrence of crises within and beyond the Union made a focus on implementation essential. This chapter discusses the main areas of implementation of the EUGS , explaining why, in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, security and defence has become one of the main areas of focus for the EU’s external action.
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Tocci, N. (2017). What Next After 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_5
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