An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP.

Autorentext
SVEN BISCOP Director of the Europe in the World Programme at Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels, Belgium, and Visiting Professor on European Security at Ghent University and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium RALUCA CSERNATONI PhD Candidate at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University, Hungary STEPHANIE C. HOFMANN Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland ADRIAN HYDE-PRICE Professor of International Politics at the University of Bath, UK FRIEDRICH KRATOCHWIL Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy FRÉDÉRIC MÉRAND Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal, Canada, Visiting Professor of European Studies at LUISS University in Rome, Italy, and Deputy Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies at Montreal, Canada PER M. NORHEIM-MARTINSEN Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) IRAKLIS OIKONOMOU Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Greece

Inhalt
Foreword; J.Solana Introduction: The Role of Theory in the Study of Common Security and Defence Policy; X.Kurowska Neorealism; A.Hyde-Price The Common Security and Defence Policy: Approaching Transgovernmentalism?; S.C.Hofmann CSDP: The Strategic Perspective; S.Biscop & P.M.Norheim-Martinsen The Social Constructivist Sensibility and CSDP Research; X.Kurowska & F.Kratochwil Sociological Institutionalism, Socialisation, and the Brussalisation of CSDP; F.Breuer Bricolage: A Sociological Approach to the Making of European Defence; F.Merand A Historical Materialist Approach to CSDP; I.Oikonomou Applying Foucault's Toolkit to CSDP; M.Merlingen The Praxis of Romania's Euro-Atlantic Security Field: A Bourdieu-Inspired Research Agenda; R.O.Csernatoni Conclusion: The Way Ahead for Research into CSDP; X.Kurowska & F.Breuer