Making sense of the (post-)Brexit EU: security, stability and the future of EU’s collective security

Alexandru-Constantin Apetroe ()
Additional contact information
Alexandru-Constantin Apetroe: PhD candidate in Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies at BabeșBolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

CES Working Papers, 2018, vol. 10(3), issue 3, 251-270

Abstract: This paper will address the situation of the European Union following the 2016 Brexit referendum. Enveloping the debates surrounding the European Union’s collective security and the role of NATO in the post 9/11 world, Brexit opened the door for a serious discussion on the transatlantic partnership of the European Union with the United States, in particular after the 2016 Presidential Election. British reluctance on European integration and their “special relationship” with the United States have always been seen as an element which hindered Europe to reach its full potential as a global actor. Brexit, if carefully and pragmatically assessed, can signify an opportunity for the European Union to behave in a more cohesive manner on ensuring its collective security, either in the form of a European Common Defence Programme, or in the form of a reformed/reimagined NATO.

Keywords: Brexit; EU; PESCO; NATO; collective security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ceswp.uaic.ro/articles/CESWP2018_X3_APE.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jes:wpaper:y:2018:v:10:i:3:p:251-270

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in CES Working Papers from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alupului Ciprian ().