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The paradox of EU defence policy

The paradox of EU defence policy

Autor(en): Daniel Keohane
Journaltitel: European Geostrategy
Band: 8
Ausgabe: 9
Publikationsjahr: 2016

There is a paradox at the heart of EU defence policy. On the one hand the strategic demand for a more active and effective EU defence policy has been growing in recent years, mainly due to the increasing number of complex security crises in Europe’s neighbourhood. On the other, political interest in member-state capitals in EU defence policy has been declining. If this strange dichotomy continues, it will demonstrate the increasing irrelevance of EU defence policy for international security, and will hamper the ambition of the EU global strategy to have a full-spectrum set of foreign policy instruments and more comprehensive foreign policies.