The European Union and strategy: an emerging actor/ edited by Kjell Engelbrekt and Jan Hallenberg.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-236) and index.

Introduction Jan Hallenberg Part 1: Constraints and Capacities 1. Machiavelli and the Making of a European Security And Defence Strategy Kjell Engelbrekt 2. The EU Made Me Do It: Drivers of Multinational Security and Defence Policy Janne Haaland Matlary 3. The EU as a Military Strategic Actor Lars Wedin 4. Analyzing EU's Shared Strategy Malena Britz and Arita Eriksson Part 2: Strategic Entanglements 5. The Ambivalent Power: The United States and European Security and Defence Policy Gale A. Mattox 6. Europe's Emergent but Weak Strategic Culture: The Case of the EU, Iran and Nuclear Weapons Diplomacy Sten Rynning 7. The EU's Democratic Norm Project for Eurasia: Will the Beauty Tame the Beast? Bertil Nygren Part 3: Actor on a Global Scale? 8. Why Three Straight Lines Rarely Form a Triangle: US, EU and Chinese Strategies in the 21st Century Francois Gere 9. A Neurotic Centaur: The Limitations of the EU as a Strategic Actor Adrian Hyde-Price 10. A Progressive European Union, A Problematic United States: An Exceptional Experiment Contends with American Exceptionalism Andrew L. Ross 11. The EU as a Strategic Actor, 'Re-Actor' or Passive Pole? Charlotte Wagnsson Conclusion 12. Conclusion: A Strategic Actor under Permanent Construction? Kjell Engelbrekt and Jan Hallenberg