The European Defence Agency - Arming Europe

This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution. Despite its critical role in European strategic and military affairs as the key hub of European policy-making in the field of armaments, the Agency has hitherto received very little attention by the academic and research community around Europe. To fill this gap in the literature, the book covers a multitude of inter-related themes and topics. Not only does it provide a detailed analysis and assessment of the Agency’s record as the first institution dealing solely with EU armaments policy, but it also links these findings to international relations and European integration theory. Thematically, the contributions go beyond the mere description of achievements, gaps and risks, elaborating on novel themes such as space, offsets, pooling and sharing, and transatlantic armaments relations. The book combines an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European defence with theoretical and ontological pluralism, and seeks to unveil the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of armaments collaboration and capability development under the aegis of the EDA. The multi-faceted orientation of the book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU institutions, defence studies, arms control and international relations in general.

Foreword, Hilmar Linnenkamp Introduction, Nikolaos Karampekios & Iraklis Oikonomou PART I: Theorising the European Defence Agency 1. Institutionalist Approaches to Agency Establishment, Helena Ekelund 2. The EDA and the discursive construction of European defence and security, André Barrinha 3. Brothers in Arms? The European Arms Industry and the Making of the EDA, Iraklis Oikonomou PART II: The European Defence Agency in Action 4. EU Military Capability Development and the European Defence Agency: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, Alistair J.K. Shepherd 5. The European Defence Agency and Armaments Collaboration, Katia Vlachos-Dengler 6. The European Defence Agency and the Field of Research and Technology, Anja Dahlmann, Marcel Dickow and Léa Tisserant 7. The EDA and the Integration of the European Defence Market, Aris Georgopoulos PART III: The European Defence Agency, the Nation-state and Beyond 8. France, the UK and the European Defence Agency, Jocelyn Mawdsley 9. Germany’s limited leadership in the EDA: international and domestic constraints on defence cooperation, Tom Dyson 10. Organizations at war: The EDA, NATO and the European Commission, Marc R. DeVore PART IV: Broadening of the EU Armaments Policy Agenda 11. The EDA and military capability development: making Pooling and Sharing Work, Laura Chappell and Petar Petrov 12. The EDA and the Development of a European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, Marie-Louise Chagnaud, Christian Mölling and Torben Schütz 13. The EDA and Defence Offsets: Tailing after the Commission, Peter Platzgummer 14. The European Defence Agency’s Inroads into Space, Frank Slijper Conclusion, Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou