Common Security and Defence Policy as France’s Winning Strategy ? Evidence from Recent Experience
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| Název: | Common Security and Defence Policy as France’s Winning Strategy ? Evidence from Recent Experience |
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| Autoři: | Kuokštytė, Ringailė |
| Zdroj: | Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review. 18:23-44 |
| Informace o vydavateli: | General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, 2020. |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Témata: | 05 social sciences, 16. Peace & justice, 0506 political science |
| Popis: | France’s status as a conventional power makes Paris an inevitable actor in the context of Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Insofar France is considered as a staunch protagonist of the EU/European strategic autonomy and an opponent against the US/NATO dominance in Europe, the most recent CSDP progress may be expected to belong to the merits of French decision-makers. Based on a closer analytical look, however, CSDP is not reducible to a coherent outcome of French interests. At the EU level, the French influence turns out to be limited. A strong ideological attachment of this EU Member State to sovereign politics and a consequential lack of commitment to common issues of defence and security may be viewed as an impediment to the materialisation of a more significant clout of Paris on the communitarian scale. Yet relevant limits are predominantly a structural consequence, which is a pattern enhanced by the current dynamics in global politics. This makes one consider France’s status as a “system-influencing state” more cautiously. In a sense, the paper takes issue with the literature on the recent CSDP progress as an expression of political and policy convergence and re-focuses attention on manners in which inter-European dynamics can shed light on positions of individual members. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 2335-870X 1648-8024 |
| DOI: | 10.47459/lasr.2020.18.2 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://journals.lka.lt/journal/lasr/article/599/file/pdf https://journals.lka.lt/journal/lasr/article/599/info https://www.journals.lka.lt/journal/lasr/article/599/file/pdf |
| Rights: | CC BY NC ND |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....55954d4ab320f05fa3c98fbb67b5a64a |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | France’s status as a conventional power makes Paris an inevitable actor in the context of Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Insofar France is considered as a staunch protagonist of the EU/European strategic autonomy and an opponent against the US/NATO dominance in Europe, the most recent CSDP progress may be expected to belong to the merits of French decision-makers. Based on a closer analytical look, however, CSDP is not reducible to a coherent outcome of French interests. At the EU level, the French influence turns out to be limited. A strong ideological attachment of this EU Member State to sovereign politics and a consequential lack of commitment to common issues of defence and security may be viewed as an impediment to the materialisation of a more significant clout of Paris on the communitarian scale. Yet relevant limits are predominantly a structural consequence, which is a pattern enhanced by the current dynamics in global politics. This makes one consider France’s status as a “system-influencing state” more cautiously. In a sense, the paper takes issue with the literature on the recent CSDP progress as an expression of political and policy convergence and re-focuses attention on manners in which inter-European dynamics can shed light on positions of individual members. |
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| ISSN: | 2335870X 16488024 |
| DOI: | 10.47459/lasr.2020.18.2 |