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dc.contributor.authorMEIJER, Hugo
dc.contributor.authorWYSS, Marco
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-08T08:38:16Z
dc.date.available2018-10-08T08:38:16Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationCooperation and conflict, 2019, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 378-406en
dc.identifier.issn0010-8367
dc.identifier.issn1460-3691
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/59207
dc.descriptionFirst published online: August 6, 2018en
dc.description.abstractSince the end of the Cold War, the study of European defence has been dominated by a ‘Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)-centric’ approach, while largely neglecting the comparative analysis of national defence policies. This article makes a conceptual and empirical case for turning the dominant research prism of European defence studies upside down by returning the analytical precedence to the national level. This approach privileges the comparative analysis of national defence policies and armed forces, before focusing on the trans-/supra-national level. The case for this analytical turn is made in three steps. Firstly, it addresses the different historical stages in European defence integration and the transformation of national armed forces and thereby brings to light the recent renationalization of defence in Europe. Secondly, it questions the predominance of the CSDP in the scholarly literature on European defence. Finally, it seeks to demonstrate the fruitfulness of such a démarche by empirically substantiating common patterns and intra-European divergences in the evolution of national defence policies and armed forces since the end of the Cold War. After having shown the need and added benefit of turning the analytical lense of European defence studies on its head, the conclusion suggests future avenues of research on national defence policies and armed forces in Europe.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.ispartofCooperation and conflicten
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Global Governance Programme]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Europe in the World]en
dc.titleUpside down : reframing European defence studiesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0010836718790606
dc.identifier.volume54en
dc.identifier.startpage378
dc.identifier.endpage406
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dc.identifier.issue3en


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