The European Community and the Security Dilemma, 1979–92 (St Antony's Series)

This book shows how the relationship between security and integration in Western Europe depends upon an enduring implicit bargain between the US and its European allies. Despite internal and external pressures to develop a European security and defence identity distinct from NATO in the 1980s and 1990s, EC member states have consistently rejected supranational integration in the areas of security and defence. Despite considerable European dissatisfaction with American leadership of NATO, Europe has continued to accept that leadership even after the end of the Cold War and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-14 Past as Prologue: the Historical Relationship between Integration and Security....Pages 15-38 The Theoretical Relationship between Integration and Security....Pages 39-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-68 The Changing External Dimension: US-European Divergences....Pages 69-97 Fragmented ‘Subsystems’: the West European Response to Crisis....Pages 98-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-136 Internal Dynamism and the Consequences of the Single European Act....Pages 137-156 Changing External Dimension: the EC Takes the Lead....Pages 157-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-186 Testing Times for Security Aspirations: ‘the EC Must Take the Lead’....Pages 187-220 Maastricht and the Grand Compromise....Pages 221-245 Conclusion: The EC and Security — Continuity Within a Changing Relationship....Pages 246-257 Back Matter....Pages 258-339