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CSDP: The Strategic Perspective

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Explaining the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy

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For a long time, strategic studies and European studies appeared to mutually ignore if not disdain each other. During the cold war, strategic studies concentrated on the exercise of hard power as an instrument of foreign policy. Their natural focus was the military strategy of the United States and the Soviet Union. It came equally naturally to ignore the European Economic Community (EEC), which except for the informal consultation mechanism of European Political Cooperation (EPC) did not venture into the realm of foreign policy, let alone security and defence policy. European studies themselves for the most part did not look at the EEC as an actor in the field of security and defence policy, turning instead to conceptualisations of the Community as a ‘civilian power’ or, more recently, a ‘normative power’ (Bull 1982, Duchêne 1972, Telo 2006, Whitman 1998, Manners 2002, 2006).

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  1. Central European University, Hungary

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  2. European University Institute, Italy

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Biscop, S., Norheim-Martinsen, M. (2012). CSDP: The Strategic Perspective. In: Kurowska, X., Breuer, F. (eds) Explaining the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355729_4

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