 The EDA-European Commission Connection in EU Military R&D: Not Seeing the Forest for the TreesIraklis Oikonomou ()
Chapter Chapter 14 in The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy, 2018, pp 261-279 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The European Defence Agency (EDA) has been critical for the shaping of EU armaments policy and, consequently, for the agenda of military research and development (R&D) at the Brussels level. As the Commission initiative on defense research falls directly into the remit of the Agency, the literature has noted the existence of rivalry between the two institutions. This conclusion is also compatible with a reading of the two institutions that emphasizes their different institutional form – supranational versus intergovernmental. Utilizing a historical materialist approach, the chapter attempts – against this consensus over inter-institutional rivalry – to highlight the inner unity of purpose that unites dialectically the EDA and the Commission as far as defense research is concerned. It does so by documenting the record of EDA in the realm of R&D and by integrating this record and the Commission initiative into a single conceptual scheme, emphasizing the unifying role of the goal of supporting the competitive position of the European arms industry. Date: 2018 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:innchp:978-3-319-68807-7_14 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68807-7_14 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management from Springer |
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