Securing Europe: European Security in an American Epoch

by L. Watanabe

Overview

Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach. Watanabe argues that Europeanization as a process of change takes place not as a result of rationally calculating states, but as a result of the reworking of perceptual and normative frameworks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230579897
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/20/2010
Series:	New Security Challenges
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

LISA WATANABE is Research Officer for the programme on Geopoliticial Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Secutrity Policy, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgements viii

List of Abbreviations ix

Part I Europeanization: Analytical Framework

1 Introduction 3

A Sociological institutionalist framework 10

2 A Sociological Institutionalist Approach to Europeanization 14

Introduction 14

Review of existing approaches 15

A sociological institutionalist approach 29

Europeanization 37

The co-determination of national and European institutional orders 42

Conclusion 49

Part II The Case Studies

3 The European Security and Defence Policy 53

Introduction 53

Reframing defence: The emergence of the ESDP 55

Europeanization of military security 59

Transatlantic security relations 77

Conclusion 87

4 Justice and Home Affairs Post-September 11 91

Introduction 91

Europeanization of 'Internal' security prior to 9/11 93

Europeanization of 'Internal' security post-9/11 108

Reshaping of domestic institutional orders 112

Transatlantic security relations 119

Conclusion 123

5 The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe 127

Introduction 127

From reactive crisis management to long-term conflict prevention 129

Europeanization of Germany's policy preferences 135

Transatlantic security relations 150

Conclusion 151

6 Conclusion: Socio-Functional Europeanization 154

Notes 167

Index 191