EU Military Cooperation and National Defense

Author(s): Daniel Keohane
Journal Title: GMF Policy Brief
Issue: 4
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.

Since mid-2016, a plethora of new initiatives to bolster EU military cooperation have emerged. This article contends that while this is partly in response to the UK’s impending departure from the EU, it is also because of strategic necessity as Europeans increasingly understand that they should take more responsibility for their own security. It also argues that EU military cooperation should be understood more in the context of its utility for national defense policies across Europe, and less through its relationship with NATO or its role in European integration.

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