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Title

European Union's common security and defense policy : why is it so difficult?

English Abstract

The Common Security and defense Policy (CSDP) of European Union has formally established for more than 20 years but just achieved a little progress during these two decades. 21 years later after 1992, the stage of the European Union's role in the security and defense area is still stop in a primary level. It can be easily seen that the European Union lacking the ability to intervene international conflicts. Without a powerful military force, European Union just has a little voice in security issues. For example the EU's weak response to the Yugoslav war and the failure of CSDP in Iraq War. Why such a phenomena are constantly presented? Why an effective common defense system was hardly to build in such a highly integrated area? And why the CSDP developed a lot in late 1980s but bog down after the end of Cold War? Personally, these questions are interesting and worth studying, so this thesis will be centered on them. Below I will list some hypothesizes to explain the reasons and try to prove those hypothesizes with the case study.

Issue date

2013.

Author

Chen, Yu Ming

Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences (former name: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Department
Department of Government and Public Administration
Degree

M.A.

Subject

European Union countries -- Military policy

European Union countries -- Defenses

Supervisor

Song Weiqing

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Location
1/F Zone C
Library URL
991007229339706306