The European Community and Yugoslavia's Non-Alignment Policy: from acceptance and collaboration to disillusionment and confrontation

Sandro Knezovic () and Marco ESTEVES Lopes
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Sandro Knezovic: Marco ESTEVES LOPES
Marco ESTEVES Lopes: EU Affairs Consultant and Project Manager at INOVA+, Porto

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2020, vol. 11(2), 334-352

Abstract: The article contextualises the concept of the European army within wider European security and defence discourse. The European Union (EU) is facing complex challenges, which requires a strategic approach to IR. This research examines the EU's strategic posture and capacities in the international arena by employing two leading concepts of IR theory - constructivism and realism. Since the EU operates in an interlinked world, the article takes into account a wider geostrategic environment and heterogeneity of concepts and interests of actors in various pockets of the globe, offering viable future perspectives for the phenomena in its focus. It suggests a functional development of a EU's strategic culture and a fine-tuned reconsideration of its exclusively constructivist approach to contemporary security challenges.

Keywords: European army; defence and security; strategy; Euro-Atlantic community; international relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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