Post-Brexit EU/UK security cooperation: NATO, CSDP+, or ‘French connection’?

Martill, Benjamin; Sus, Monika

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“…A European Union without the United Kingdom will affect European security and stability as a whole because it would lose one of its most powerful member states and direct access to its capabilities and resources, including intelligence, manpower, military assets, diplomatic services and nuclear deterrent. With ongoing negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship, several options for their future security relations and the United Kingdom's commitment towards European security and defence policies have been formulated by Martill and Sus (2018) as well as the United Kingdom (2018) Government itself. First, the United Kingdom will remain committed to European security and defence and Brexit will not have a great impact.…”

Section: Brexit and Its Future Implications For The Eu-nato Relationshipmentioning

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Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?

Ewers-Peters

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Since its accession to the European Union, the United Kingdom has played an important role in the design and development of the European Union’s foreign, security and defence policy. While it is among the founding members of North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it is also one of the main contributors to European security and played an active part in developing the relationship between both organisations. With the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, questions concerning the implications of Brexit on European Union–North Atlantic Treaty Organization cooperation arise. As the transatlantic bridge between the two organisations, Britain also faces an uncertain position within the European security architecture. It therefore needs to redefine its relations with the European Union and its own position among other member states. Taking into account the development of national security interests and recent political events, this article develops three possible scenarios that may occur for the European Union–North Atlantic Treaty Organization relationship depending on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations.

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Section: Brexit and Its Future Implications For The Eu-nato Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?

Ewers-Peters

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Yet much of the scholarship on differentiation still suffers from three preconceptions. First, there is an institutional bias in many of our assumptions about differentiation (for example, Martill and Sus, ). According to this view there is a direct link between formal differentiation and specific outcomes, ranging from closer cooperation to disintegration (see Rosamond, ).…”

Section: A Practice Approach To Differentiated (Dis)integrationmentioning

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Differentiated (Dis)integration in Practice: The Diplomacy of Brexit and the Low Politics of High Politics

Svendsen¹,

Adler‐Nissen

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article advances a practice approach to differentiated (dis)integration in European security and defence in light of Brexit. We propose that understanding how differentiation in the area of security and defence is given meaning on the ground requires examining the everyday social practices of officials and military professionals. Therefore, we focus on the ‘low politics’ of security and defence cooperation in Europe. We do so by entering the diplomatic engine room in the EU's Political and Security Committee (PSC). We show how arguments that Brexit will either be the ultimate death blow to the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) or that it will be the catalyst for deeper military cooperation fail to take account of the social dynamics and the historical path of security and military cooperation in Europe. Future research on differentiation should pay particular attention to how such dynamics play out in the everyday social negotiation of meaning among practitioners.

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“…58 And yet from an institutional perspective Brexit also offered an opportunity to obtain movement on a number of projects which the UK would surely have vetoed as a member but which -since it was on the way out -it would no longer be in a position to stop. 59 Preventing EU-led challenges to NATO had been a long-standing concern of Britain's European policy, and the UK consistently vetoed initiatives it regarded as undermining the supremacy of the Atlantic alliance in matters of defence. Without the British veto in the background, a common view holds, the EU will be able to move towards a more autonomous posture in security and defence.…”

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Great expectations: The Brexit moment in EU security and defence and the return of the capabilities–expectations gap

Martill

Sus

2019

Europe and the World: A Law Review

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This article re-examines the capability–expectations gap in the European Union’s foreign policy in light of recent developments in this field. Our point of departure is the observation that the expectations being placed on the EU’s foreign and security capabilities in recent years have been steadily increasing, in response to a number of external and internal developments, including the Arab Spring, the Ukraine crisis and America’s ‘pivot’ to Asia, as well as the Brexit vote. We argue, however, that the institutional changes introduced as a result have not succeeded in fulfilling the lofty ambitions held of the Union either by itself or by other actors since they suffer from many of the same failings that have persistently bedevilled EU security initiatives. The result is a mismatch between the EU’s ambitions and its ability to deliver on these, which threatens to reopen the capabilities–expectations gap, which has been steadily declining since the late 1990s. Existing scholarly approaches have missed this problematic dynamic since they have focused more on the institutional changes (the supply side) rather than the increasing expectations (the demand side). While pronouncements regarding Europe’s ‘strategic autonomy’ and such like offer clear gains for European leaders in the short term, they may come back to haunt them in the years to come.

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Post-Brexit EU/UK security cooperation: NATO, CSDP+, or ‘French connection’?

Cited by 54 publications

References 51 publications

Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?

Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?

Differentiated (Dis)integration in Practice: The Diplomacy of Brexit and the Low Politics of High Politics

Great expectations: The Brexit moment in EU security and defence and the return of the capabilities–expectations gap

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