JOLYON HOWORTH is Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath, UK. He has published extensively in the field of European security and defence policy and French history and politics - twelve books and over eighty journal articles and chapters in books. Recent books include European Integration and Defence: The Ultimate Challenge? (Paris, WEU-Institute for Security Studies, 2000); The European Union and National Defence Policy, (co-edited, Routledge, 1997). Articles have appeared in leading international relations and history journals. JOHN T.S. KEELER is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for West European Studies/European Union Center at the University of Washington (Seattle). His previous books include The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic (Oxford), Reformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique (Presses Universitaires de France), Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (St. Martin's) and Agricultural Policy (Edward Elgar). He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and the Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Agricole by the French Ministry of Agriculture.

• Introduction NATO, the EU and the Quest for European Autonomy; J.Howorth & J.T.S.Keeler PART I: NATO AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ESDI/ESDP Developing a NATO-EU Politico-Military Agreement; A.Moens The CJTF Framework and the Limits of European Autonomy; T.Terriff The Effects of Kosovo and the Danger of Decoupling; F.Bozo PART II: THE EURO-AMERICAN CAPABILITIES GAP The US-European Capabilities Gap and the EU's Defense Dimension; D.Yost NATO, ESDP and Constructive Duplication; K.Schake PART III: NATO ENLARGEMENT AND THE DISCRIMINATION ISSUE Non-EU NATO Members and the Issue of Discrimination; S.Tofte NATO Enlargement and European Defense Autonomy; M.Webber Dilemmas of NATO Enlargement; J.Lindley-French TWO CONTRARY CONCLUSIONS Why ESDP is Misguided and Dangerous for the Alliance; A.Menon Why ESDP is Necessary and Beneficial for Alliance; J.Howorth

'The volume succeeds in highlighting the competing ambitions, the contrasting visions and the transatlantic tensions related to the quest by Europe for autonomy in the sphere of security and defence...The verdict on the European security and defence policy as well as that on the future of NATO is still ongoing. The book does justice to this ongoing debate. - International Affairs ' [Defending Europe] examines the European Union's current attempts to establish a defence system within the overall security architecture of the Atlantic world...The essays in Defending Europe, provide an expert and dispassionate treatment of the complex issues involved.' - The Economist