Analysis of Ion Berindan’s article “Not another ‘grand strategy’: what prospects for the future European security strategy?”
Published by A. Gagaridis in Update · 29 November 2017
Tags: EU, Strategy, Security, Berindan, Article, Comment
Tags: EU, Strategy, Security, Berindan, Article, Comment
Welcome back on Strategikos!In recent years, the EU has been involved into several internationally-relevant issues: just to name the most important ones, one can mention the Ukranian crisis and the subsequent tensions with Russia, the civil wars in Syria and Libya, the terrorist attacks all over Europe, the immigration crisis, the negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (the free trade deal with the US, also known as the TTIP), the Brexit, the eurozone crisis and others. It is therefore clear that the EU is finding itself in an evolving and challenging international environment; that can have a profound effect on the Union's security.
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In this context, the debate over (and the need of) a grand strategy for the EU is intense. As such, this paper will be useful in understanding the current status of the foreign policy, security initiatives and global strategy of the EU. I summarize an article by Ion Berindan on this subject and I comment it to show that the EU can have a "grand strategy" even if it is not a "world power"; and that the real issue in this regard concerns the means, the methods and the objectives of the Union as an international actor: since the EU is able to employ various tools to pursue its goals, I argue that it is legitimate to talk of a "EU grand strategy". In doing so, I also examine the three main strategic documents issued by the EU: the 2003 European Security Strategy, the 2008 Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy, and the 2016 Global Strategy.
So, click on this link to read the paper!
I wrote it in late 2016 as part of a course titled "European common foreign, security and defence policy" that I attended during my Master's program at Université Catholique de Louvain
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