Daniel Fiott - Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union: The State, the Firm and Europe

This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice.

Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence industrial policy at EU level. Moving beyond a simple adumbration of economic preferences, it shows how the EUs institutional framework and corpus of law are used by governments to reaffirm their position as the ultimate arbiter and promoter of national economic preferences in the defence industrial sector. To this end, the work asks why and how EU member state governments, European defence firms, and EU institutions developed EU-level defence industrial policy between 2003 and 2009. The book also analyses significant policy developments, including the establishment of a European Defence Agency and two EU Directives on equipment transfers and defence procurement.

This book will be of much interest to students of EU policy, defence studies, security studies and International Relations in general.

Daniel Fiott is an analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Brussels, Belgium, and co-editor of The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar (2015).

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The State, the Firm and Europe

Daniel Fiott

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Names: Fiott, Daniel, author.

Title: Defence industrial cooperation in the European Union : the state, the firm and Europe / Daniel Fiott.

Other titles: Defense industrial cooperation in the European Union

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in European security and strategy | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018058883 (print) | LCCN 2019001767 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429659164 (Web PDF) | ISBN 9780429656729 (ePub) | ISBN 9780429654282 (Mobi) | ISBN 9780367109929 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429024207 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Defense industriesGovernment policyEuropean Union countries. | European cooperation. | European Union countriesMilitary policy. | European Union countriesEconomic policy.

Classification: LCC HD9743.E852 (ebook) | LCC HD9743.E852 F56 2019 (print) | DDC 338.4/73550094dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058883

ISBN: 978-0-367-10992-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-02420-7 (ebk)

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No book is simply about research and writing. I would like to thank a number of people for giving up their time to help me with this book. First, those that have assisted me intellectually need thanking, first beginning with Luis Simn followed by Sven Biscop, Amelia Hadfield, Alexander Mattelaer, Sebastian Oberthr, Burkard Schmitt and Florian Trauner for giving me sustained, frank and in-depth comments and criticisms on the main argument in this book. As I was based at the Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels, from October 2012, I should also like to thank my former colleagues who exchanged ideas with me, criticised me for some of my approaches and celebrated my achievements.

I would also like to thank Antonio Missiroli and the entire team at the European Union Institute for Security Studies. Antonio gave me the opportunity to apply my academic skills-set in a policy setting. Having been at the Institute since September 2016, I have been able to learn more about EU policy processes with respect to defence industrial cooperation and, in some small and modest way, I hope to have influenced the policy process too. I thank my colleagues at the Institute and several other EU colleagues who have supported me in one way or another. A number of other individuals should be thanked for supporting my work by inviting me to speak at conferences, to guest lecture and write policy and/or opinion pieces on defence-related issues.

Most importantly, the bulk of my gratitude goes to my wife Juliana. I dedicate this book to her as a small token of thanks for her forbearance, especially as this book was written while having just given birth to our twin boys.

Daniel Fiott

17 September 2018

Brussels