Defence industrial and technological base

Jocelyn Mawdsley

Chapter 25 in Handbook of European Union Governance, 2025, pp 357-369 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While the governance of the European Defence Industrial and Technological Base (EDITB) forms a sizable part of EU security governance, it is often underplayed in the academic literature. This chapter argues the EU's EDITB governance has developed through industrial, single market, and innovation policy initiatives rather than security policy. It traces this evolution and argues that this produced a particular form of governance that privileges firms more than might otherwise be the case. A parallel intergovernmental cooperation track had developed through NATO and the Western European Union (WEU), the latter eventually taking shape within the EU's European Defence Agency (EDA). The Commission's supranational entrepreneurialism, coupled with state preferences, has minimized the role of the intergovernmental EDA in governing the EDITB. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the established mode of governance is being challenged by the concept of strategic autonomy, especially in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine.

Keywords: Defence firms; Industrial policy; Research policy; Strategic autonomy; Technology; Military capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925172
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