Transaction costs and security institutions : unravelling the ESDP

XIV, 269 S.

Ill., graph. Darst.

23 cm

Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: PREFERENCES, SECURITY INSTITUTIONS AND TRANSACTION COSTS IN WORLD POLITICS -- Introduction -- Theorising Preference Formation for Institution-Building in European Security -- Transaction Costs and Security Institutions -- PART II: UNRAVELLING THE EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY (EDSP) -- The Demand for a Security Institution: German, British and French Perceptions of the Environment in the 1990s -- Germany -- From Defending the Alliance's Territory To Crisis Management for the Union -- Great Britain -- From Opposing the Union towards a Subordinated ESDP -- France -- From Gradual WEU Integration to Full-Scale ESDP -- Germany: An Incrementally Decreasing Willingness to Bind the Country -- Great Britain -- From No EU Security Policy To a Purely Intergovernmental ESDP -- France -- A Consistently Intergovernmental Approach towards ESDP -- PART III: TRANSACTION COSTS AND SECURITY INSTITUTIONS: ESDP UNRAVELLED -- Alternative Explanations and Theoretical Scope of the Transaction Costs Framework -- Conclusion -- Theory-Development in the European Security and Defence Policy.

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