The EU, strategy and security policy : regional and strategic challenges / edited by Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley and Petar Petrov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategy in european security and defence policy : does it matter? / Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Petar Petrov -- CSDP strategy in the Balkans and the Eastern neighbourhood : in search for a strategy? / Ana E Juncos -- The EU in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa / Ronja Kempin, Ronja Scheler -- The EU's comprehensive approach to security in the MENA region : what lessons for CSDP from libya? / Wolfgang Mühlberger, Patrick Müller -- The CSDP and Asia / Rhys Merrett -- CSDP and the internal-external security nexus / Alistair J.K. Shepherd -- The EU's security actorness in cyber space : quo vadis? / André Barrinha and Helena Carrapiço -- Maritime security and the CSDP : interests, operational experience, and strategies / Michael E. Smith -- The EU-UN partnership in light of the responsibility to protect / Julia Schmidt -- EU-NATO relations: top-down strategic paralysis, bottom-up cooperation / Simon Duke, Sophie Vanhoonacker -- The national priorities of Germany, France and the UK : enabling or constraining a joined-up EU strategy? / Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Richard Whitman -- Military capabilities and force transformation / David J. Galbreath and Simon J. Smith -- Uncovering EU strategy in its security policy: an(in) coherent actor? / Laura Chappell, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Petar Petrov.

This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU's efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions. Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has yet to acquire a clear sense of purpose. This book investigates those areas where the EU has established actorness in the security and defence field and asks whether they might constitute the elements of an emergent more coherent EU strategy on security. Taking a critical view, the contributors map the EU's strategic vision(s) across particular key regions where the EU has been active as a security actor, the strategic challenges that it has pinpointed alongside the opportunities and barriers posed by a multiplicity of actors, interests and priorities identified by both member states and EU actors. By doing this we demonstrate where gaps in strategic thinking lie, where the EU has been unable to achieve its aims, and offer recommendations concerning the EU's future strategic direction. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, strategic studies and IR in general.-- Provided by Publisher.