Abstract
There is a gap in the literature in international relations and European integration with respect to why states establish cooperative formats involving integrative commitments. In this thesis, I address this gap by providing a distinction between cooperative and integrative commitments and further specifying criteria that can be used to identify integration between states. I apply these criteria to analyses of three cases of interstate cooperation where European states have established cooperation involving integrative commitments. The specification of criteria for integration between states in the field of security and defence is a novel contribution to international relations and European integration literature. Furthermore, the thesis findings suggest we need to reconsider arguments in the literature regarding what kinds of commitments states make in the field of security and defence. Hence, the impossibility of security and defence integration between states in Europe is rebuked.
List of papers
Paper I. Tine Elisabeth Brøgger (2023) Beyond the “lowest common denominator”? Mutually binding commitments in European security and defence cooperation: the case of the Nordic states, European Security, 32:1, 42-61, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2022.2052724. The article is included in the thesis. Also available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2022.2052724 |
Paper II. A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence cooperation. Article currently under review in Journal of European Integration. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Paper III. Reconsidering sovereignty in security and defence cooperation: The case of European ‘great powers’. Article currently under review in Contemporary Security Policy. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |