The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces write by Hugo Meijer. This book was released on 2018-06-20. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The armed forces of Europe have undergone a dramatic transformation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces provides the first comprehensive analysis of national security and defence policies, strategies, doctrines, capabilities, and military operations, as well as the alliances and partnerships of European armed forces in response to the security challenges Europe has faced since the end of the cold war. A truly cross-European comparison of the evolution of national defence policies and armed forces remains a notable blind spot in the existing literature. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces aims to fill this gap with fifty-one contributions on European defence and international security from around the world. The six parts focus on: country-based assessments of the evolution of the national defence policies of Europe's major, medium, and lesser powers since the end of the cold war; the alliances and security partnerships developed by European states to cooperate in the provision of national security; the security challenges faced by European states and their armed forces, ranging from interstate through intra-state and transnational; the national security strategies and doctrines developed in response to these challenges; the military capabilities, and the underlying defence and technological industrial base, brought to bear to support national strategies and doctrines; and, finally, the national or multilateral military operations by European armed forces. The contributions to The Handbook collectively demonstrate the fruitfulness of giving analytical precedence back to the comparative study of national defence policies and armed forces across Europe.
Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces
Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces write by Sven Biscop. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors continue to measure power mostly by assessing military capability. To preserve its status as an economic power, therefore, the EU has to become a power across the board, which requires a grand strategy, and the means and the will to proactively pursue one. The authors of this book aim to demonstrate that the EU can develop a purposive yet distinctive grand strategy that preserves the value-based nature of EU external action while also safeguarding its vital economic interests. The book analyses the existing military capability of the European Union and its bottom-up nature, which results in a national-based focus in the member-states, impeding deployment capability. A systematic realignment of national defence planning at the strategic level will enable each member-states to focus its defence effort on the right capabilities, make maximal use of pooling and specialization, and contribute to multinational projects in order to address Europe’s strategic capability shortfalls. A stronger Europe will therefore result, it is argued, a real global actor, which can then become an equal strategic partner to the United States, leading to a revitalized Transatlantic partnership in turn. This book will be of interest to students of military studies, European Union policy, strategic studies and International Relations generally.
European Defence Policy
European Defence Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Defence Policy write by Frederic Merand. This book was released on 2008-05-22. European Defence Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explains the creation of the European Union's Security and Defence Policy - to this day the most ambitious project of peacetime military integration. Mérand explores the complex relations between the state, the military, and citizenship in today's Europe.
The European Union and National Defence Policy
The European Union and National Defence Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The European Union and National Defence Policy write by Jolyon Howorth. This book was released on 1997. The European Union and National Defence Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributors to this study explore the impact that the European Union has had, and will have, on the National Defence policies of: France Germany Holland United Kingdom Italy With chapters on Procurement and Nuclear Policy, this book provides an in-depth analysis of defence policies and the European Union.
Towards a Common European Security and Defence Policy
Towards a Common European Security and Defence Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Common European Security and Defence Policy write by Preben Bonnén. This book was released on 2003. Towards a Common European Security and Defence Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The EU made a strong commitment to developing an effective EU led crisis management capacity. By 2003 the EU must be in a position to deploy within 60 days up to 50,000-60,000 troops capable of a full range of so-called Petersberg tasks including: humanitarian and rescue missions, peacekeeping, combat force tasks in crisis management and peacemaking missions." "According to the EU however the initiative should not be seen as a duplication of NATO. Neither should the establishment of a European Force be confused with the concept of a European army. Whether a European army, or a common defence for Europe is more capable of handling the future needs and challenges of the EU is not the subject of this book. Essentially it is about whether a military crisis management system is practical and realistic and how the planned initiatives within the agreed limits are to be transformed into operative policy."--BOOK JACKET.
