Battle for Authority in European Defence Cooperation

Felix Biermann is Research Fellow at the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich, Germany. His areas of interest are European Integration, International Institutions, Cyber Security, and Security Studies.

• Part I. Introducing the Problem.- 1. Introduction.- Part II. Concepts and Theory.- 2. Authority relations in regime complexes.- 3. Struggling for authority in regime complexes.- Part III. Explaining authority distributions in the European defense complex.- 4. European defence cooperation and member state preferences.- 5. Integrating the WEAO into the EDA: Toward a European armaments agency?.- 6. The marginalization of the EDA: False premises, false promises?.- 7. The fragmentation of European defense planning: PESCO’s deep sleep.- 8. PESCO’s resilience: Jumpstarting the bandwagon.- Part IV. Assessment.- 9. Confronting contenders.- 10. Quo vadis, CSDP?.