Sweeney, S and Winn, N orcid.org/0000-0001-8531-3038 (2017) CSDP and the Open Method of Coordination: Developing the EU’s Comprehensive Approach to Security. Journal of Regional Security, 12 (2). pp. 95-122. ISSN 2217-995X
Abstract
How can we best describe the operation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), and how can we improve policy-making in CSDP? The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is predicated on the conviction that there are clear limits to the extent that European Union (EU) foreign and security policy can be strengthened through the restricting tendencies of intergovernmental cooperation between EU member states. Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) – agreed by the European Council and 25 EU member states in 2017 – offers practical instruments towards delivering value-added capacity to the process of crisis management beyond intergovernmentalism. As a process, PESCO is analogous to the logic of OMC, including more appropriate levels of coordination at the national organisational level in order to effectively facilitate the EU’s comprehensive approach to conflict prevention and crisis management. The requirement for new and “open” types of EU foreign and security policy coordination is underlined by the immense differences between EU member states in external policy, both concerning national crisis management structures and the resulting inefficient segmentation of policy at the EU level.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA 4.0). |
Keywords: | European Union (EU); Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), intergovernmentalism, Open Method of Coordination (OMC), Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO); EU foreign, defence and security policy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2018 11:24 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:12 |
Published Version: | https://www.regionalsecurityjournal.com/index.php/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Belgrade |
Identification Number: | 10.11643/issn.2217-995X172SPS82 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126056 |