By Pernille Rieker
This new booklet tackles key questions: 1) How is the european functioning as a safety actor? 2) How and to what volume is the ecu affecting nationwide safeguard identities?
Focusing at the 4 biggest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive research analyzes how and to what quantity the ecu impacts nationwide defense identities. It exhibits how the ecu has constructed right into a detailed type of protection actor that, as a result of its point of political integration, has an incredible impact on nationwide safeguard methods and identities.
This new research applies a clean mixture of integration concept, safeguard reports and stories of Europeanization. the most argument during this ebook is that, instead of adapting to the altering stipulations created through the top of the chilly battle, the Nordic states replaced their protection ways in keeping with the eu integration approach. It exhibits how assorted levels within the put up chilly warfare eu integration approach have prompted the nationwide safety ways of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. whereas all 4 safety techniques appear to have been Europeanized, the rate and the nature of those adjustments appear to fluctuate because of a mixture of differing ties to the european and differing protection coverage traditions.
This new booklet may be of significant curiosity to all scholars of ecu Defence, nationwide defense and of safety reviews generally.
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Towards a tightly coupled security community Increasing mutual security between European states The initial or ‘nascent’ phase in the development of a security community is characterized by considerations by heads of states and governments in a specific region concerning how they might co-ordinate their relations in order to increase their mutual security (Adler and Barnett 1998: 50). This first phase corresponds well with the situation in Western Europe during the first years after the Second World War.
However, since no study can be designed without some question being asked explicitly or implicitly, theory is present in all qualitative research. Theories are only used to structure the study in order to provide a starting point, and are often vaguely formulated. Still, they may take a firm shape in cases that normally are pieced together inductively (Ragin and Becker 1992). Towards the end of Chapter 3 a five-phase model for how the Europeanization process is expected to happen is presented. Even though this model will not structure the presentation in the following case studies which is based on a categorization revealed ‘inductively’ through the analysis of the collected empirical material and structured according to three main dimensions in the EU’s security identity (the establishment of a political union, the development towards an ESDP and the development towards a comprehensive security identity), the five-phase model is discussed towards the end of each case study set out here.
In discussing comparative case studies, Alexander George notes that taking account of the unique aspects of individual cases forces the investigator to develop more comprehensive theory – the uniqueness of the explanation is recognized but it is described in more general terms, as a particular value of a general variable that is part of a theoretical framework (George 1979: 47). This means that the difference between a-theoretical and more theoretical grounded studies may be less clear in comparative case studies, since a systematic comparison often leads to a focus on some central variables and the connection between them.
