Foreign And Security Policy In The European Union

Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union Edited by Kjell A. Eliassen SAGE Publications London· Thousand Oaks· New Delhi Editorial arrangement. Chapters I and 1 3 © Kiell A. Eliassen 1 998 Chapters 2 and 1 0 © G. Pinar Tank 1 998 Chapter 3 © Marit Sjovaag 1 998 Chapter 4 © Arnhild and David Spence 1998 Chapter 5 © Catriona Gourlay and Eric Remade 1 998 Chapter 6 © Yves Boyer 1 998 Chapter 7 © Reimund Seidelmann 1 998 Chapter 8 © Michael Clarke 1 998 Chapter 9 © Esther Barbe 1 998 Chapter 1 1 © Esben Oust Heiberg 1 998 Chapter 1 2 © Pierre de Vestel 1 998 First published 1 998 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced. stored in a retrieval system. transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means. electronic. mechanical. photocopying. recording or otherwise. without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications I nc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks. California 9 1 320 SAGE Publications I ndia Pvt Ltd 32. M-Block Market Greater Kailash - I New Delhi 1 1 0 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 76 1 9 5632 8 ISBN 0 76 1 9 5633 6 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog card number 98-060946 Typeset by Type Study. Scarborough. North Yorkshire Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd. Trowbridge. Wiltshire Contents Preface Notes on Contributors 1 I Introduction: The New European Foreign and Security Policy Agenda Kjell A. Eliassen European Union Foreign and Security Policy 2 The CFSP and the Nation-State G. Pinar Tank 3 The Single European Act Marit Sjf/Jvaag 4 The Common Foreign and Security Policy from Maastricht to Amsterdam Arnhild and David Spence 5 II 6 The 1996 IGC: The Actors and their Interaction Catriona Gourlay and Eric Remade National Security Strategies France and the European Project: Internal and External Issues Yves Boyer VB Vlll 1 9 9 22 43 59 94 94 7 The Security Policy of a United Germany Reimund Seidelmann 107 8 British Security Policy Michael Clarke 124 9 Spanish Security Policy and the Mediterranean Question Esther Barbe 147 III Security Issues of the European Union 161 10 Security Issues Emanating from the Mediterranean Basin G. Pinar Tank 161 vi 11 12 13 Contents Security Implications o f E U Expansion t o the North and East Esben Oust Heiberg 1 84 The Future of Armament Cooperation in NATO and the WEU Pierre de Vestel 197 European Foreign and Security Policy in the Future Kjell A. Eliassen 216 Bibliography 222 Index 239 Preface The aim of this volume is to try to explain why integration in the second pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union, is proving to be such a difficult task. The point of departure for the book is a question: why do we often find that the nation-state's self-interest in this field is much more important than the possibility of developing a regional solution? The question of why this is so difficult has been investi­ gated along three main avenues. The first part of the book examines how the reluctant growth of EU integration in the CFSP field has developed since the mid 1 980s. The second part identifies national security policies and interests that often obstruct the development of a com