The Security and Defence Policy in the European Union

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis by a leading authority of the EU’s recent emergence as a security and defence actor and the implications for transatlantic relations.

This major new text by a leading authority on European security provides a full assessment of the historical, political and systemic reasons behind the rise of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The author argues that the key issues involved – the challenges of defining a more balanced partnership between the two sides of the Atlantic and of transforming the EU from a civilian power into a new type of crisis management actor – are the most significant since the creation of NATO and the EU at the end of World War 2.

JOLYON HOWORTH is Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at Bath University.

“{A] significant and valuable contribution… well organized and accessible… [Howorth] provides a clear, detailed and comprehensive analysis of one of the most important policy developments in the history of the EU.” — Alistair J. K. Shepherd, Journal of Common Market Studies