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Great Britain and the Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU: A neofunctionalist and liberal intergovernmentalist approach
Pfeifer, Tomáš ; Karlas, Jan (advisor) ; Grünvaldová, Tereza (referee)
Velká Británie a společná bezpečnostní a obranná politika EU: Neofunkcionalistický a liberálně mezivládní přístup Abstract Tomáš Pfeifer In December 1998, a significant conference of British and French government officials assembled in the town of St. Malo in France. Their diplomatic efforts resulted in a joint declaration which is commonly regarded as the beginning of the current phase of European cooperation in the field of security and defence policy. In a few months' time, the fundamental architecture of the future European security and defence policy was plotted out, and shortly afterwards, Javier Solana was presented as its new head. It was an remarkable detour from the decades-long period of Cold War stagnation during which European cooperation was carried out mostly by the Western European Union and other more or less formal institutions. This work analyses the problem of joint European security from the viewpoint of the United Kingdom, which is not only one of the ESDP inititators, but also a dominant European military player with a rich and complex foreign policy history and, consequently, a finely structured system of needs and preferences. The British have been traditionally seen as a stumbling block of the EU, as an awkward partner in European integration; what are, then, the reasons that moved...
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