The Routledge handbook of European security

This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor. While the focus is on the politico-military dimension, security will be put in the context of the holistic approach advocated by the EU.

Each chapter critically examines EU objectives, instruments and means, in order to assess their effectiveness, and identify their weaknesses, and offer some recommendations for the EU as a security actor on the international stage. This Handbook accounts for the gradual emergence of the EU as an autonomous actor in this field since the end of the Cold War, its objectives being to safeguard European security by improving global security.

A key aspect of this development has been the emergence of a defence component through the EU’s European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), re-baptised the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) by the Lisbon Treaty. Whilst this remains a contested development, the international role for the EU as a security actor is here to stay, and is covered in this volume in detail; providing an assessment for all students of European Security, the EU, European Politics, security studies and IR in general.

The volume is organised in five parts:

+ Part sets the scene: after a historical overview of the development of European security institutions and an assessment of today’s multipolar order, it analyzes the holistic "grand strategy" underlying EU policies and assesses whether a European strategic culture has emerged.

+ Part 2 looks at the institutions that make and implement policy in the different dimensions covered by the "grand strategy", charts the instruments and means at their disposal, and assesses to which extent "sub-strategies" in each area are linked up with the overall objectives put forward in the ESS.

+ Part 3 then assesses the effectiveness of the actual policies and actions undertaken, putting the politico-military dimension in the context of the holistic approach.

+ Part 4 analyses the role of partnerships with other actors in these policies.

+ Part 5 offers a theoretical perspective on all of these developments.

Contents:

Introduction: A Secure Europe in a Better World - European Security through the EU

Part I: The EU as an International Security Actor
1. The Emergence of European Security Institutions (1945-2010), Jolyon Howorth
2. Theoretical Perspective (I): A 'Realist/Traditional' Perspective, Adrian Hyde-Price
3. Theoretical Perspective (2): A "Liberal/Constructivist/Critical" Perspective, Knud Erik Jorgensen
4. The Age of Interpolarity, Giovanni Grevi
5. The European Security Strategy, Sven Biscop
6. European Strategic Culture, Christoph O. Meyer

Part II: Institutions, Instruments and Means
7. CFSP and Diplomacy, Geoffrey Edwards
8. Military ESDP, Daniel Keohane
9. Civilian ESDP, Catriona Gourlay
10. Industry and Technology, Jan Joel Andersson
11. Democracy and Human Rights, Richard Youngs
12. Security and Development, Jan Orbie

Part III: Policies
13. The Balkans, Michael Merlingen
14. Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia, Hiski Haukkala
15. Southern Neighbourhood (including the Middle East), Costanza Musu
16. Iran and the Gulf, Walter Posch
17. Sub-Sahara Africa, Richard Whitman
18. Asia (including Central Asia), Eva Gross
19. New Geopolitical Horizons: Maritime, the Arctic, James Rogers
20. Terrorism, Wyn Rees and Javier Argomaniz
21. Non-proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament, Gerrard Quille 22. Energy, Sami Andoura

Part IV: Partners
23. NATO and the US, Leo Michel
24. The UN, Richard Gowan 25. The OSCE, Oleksandr Pavlyuk 26. The African Union, Malte Brosig
27. Strategic Partners: The BRICs and others, Thomas Renard