Collaborative security regimes post-Brexit – estimating the potential for convergence based on the overlap in national strategic documents. A comparative study of EU27 + 1 and the US

Baciu, Cornelia

doi:10.1080/01495933.2020.1826845

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“…A consolidated vision of strategic autonomy requires answers to these (and other) questions, and foremost defining the identity that the EU wants to project in the world. The Strategic Compass adopted in 2020 and the assessment of the potential for convergence (Baciu 2020) might constitute an important step towards a clearer operationalisation of future cooperation. From a regime complexity perspective, strategic autonomy could theoretically take the form of institutional overlap or merger between CSDP and NATO (Hofmann 2009;Howorth 2017) or an Europeanisation of NATO (Rynning 2019), and while elaborating on these endeavours might beseech the length of another article, we now turn to discuss the implications relating to the proposed concept of co-relational power.…”

Section: Eu Adaptationmentioning

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Progressive Grand Strategy, Co-Relational Power and Geopolitical Dilemmas. NATO and the EU in A Competitive Multipolar System

Baciu

Kunertova

2022

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Drawing on a Foucauldian philosophy of thought, this article proposes the concept of co-relational power, substantively understood as non-zero sum (positive) power – i. e. the power of one actor is not detrimental to the power of another actor, but it is instead a sum of cooperative interactions between actors. We argue that, in a context of competitive multipolarity, international collaborative security organisations, such as NATO and the EU, seek to adapt and to develop progressive and evolutionary grand strategies that can remain stable over time. Our analysis shows that both NATO and the EU are faced with geopolitical dilemmas while they seek to adapt to the new international order and constellation of threats. The main contribution of this article is that it produces new knowledge about the conceptual underpinnings and practical implications of a concept of non-zero sum (positive) concept of co-relational power, that can help understand how collaborative security organisations can become stabilising and re-enforcing pillars in the international rules-based order (‘building blocks of order’) without entering the spiral of great power competition but instead pursuing strategies that are progressive for a stable international development.

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Progressive Grand Strategy, Co-Relational Power and Geopolitical Dilemmas. NATO and the EU in A Competitive Multipolar System

Baciu

Kunertova

2022

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Barking up the tree wrongly? How national security strategies frame climate and other environmental change as security issues

Vogler

2023

Political Geography

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Beyond the emergency problematique: how do security IOs respond to crises—a case study of NATO response to COVID-19

Baciu

2021

J Transatl Stud

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This article explores the discourses and strategies of security international organisations (IOs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, applying NATO as a case study. To build the argument, the article analyses speeches and public interventions by the SG and DSG coded in NVivo. First, the results of the empirical analysis suggest that during the crisis NATO discourse focussed on its ability to perform core functions, on constructing identity, generating “positive” legitimacy, or on increasing the relevance of military capital. Second, the findings show that the main elements of the organisation’s COVID-19 crisis management strategy were: proactiveness, continuous review and planning ahead, stepping-up activities and efficiency, lessons learned, adaptability, solidarity and civil-military cooperation. Third, a logic of IO exceptionalism and ‘emergency problematique ’, underpinned by mission creep, could not be conclusively confirmed based on the analysed sample. The article adds a theoretical distinction to the literature on global governance in times of emergency. It demonstrates that security IOs might not always seek explicit authority leaps through lowering checks and balances (horizonal) or reducing the legal protection of subjects (vertical), due to risks of sanctioning.Keywords

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Collaborative security regimes post-Brexit – estimating the potential for convergence based on the overlap in national strategic documents. A comparative study of EU27 + 1 and the US

Cited by 7 publications

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Progressive Grand Strategy, Co-Relational Power and Geopolitical Dilemmas. NATO and the EU in A Competitive Multipolar System

Progressive Grand Strategy, Co-Relational Power and Geopolitical Dilemmas. NATO and the EU in A Competitive Multipolar System

Barking up the tree wrongly? How national security strategies frame climate and other environmental change as security issues

Beyond the emergency problematique: how do security IOs respond to crises—a case study of NATO response to COVID-19

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