1. European Security And Defence Policy After Nice
- Author:
- Terry Terriff, Mark Webber, Stuart Croft, and Jolyon Howorth
- Publication Date:
- 04-2001
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Chatham House
- Abstract:
- The Nice Summit will best be remembered for the eponymous treaty, designed to make the necessary institutional reforms to allow the European Union to enlarge, but progress in the sphere of security and defence is no less significant. Following changes that began at St Malo in 1998, the EU member states demonstrated their willingness to share the security burden with the United States. However, this apparently positive move has been greeted with caution at best, hostility at worst in the US, where the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is sometimes portrayed as a threat to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). What has enabled the EU to produce a common policy on security and defence after decades of failure? What are the prospects for ESDP? What are the implications for the Atlantic Alliance?
- Topic:
- Security and NATO
- Political Geography:
- United States and Europe