EU-NATO Security Relations

This book examines the future of the EU-NATO security relationship through a comparative analysis of the foreign policies of three key actors.

Tthe United States, France, and Turkey, which constitute a 'Strategic Triangle', are the focus of this study. These three key countries' grand strategies, preferences, and interests are explored to map the evolving transatlantic security relationship between the EU and NATO. In this foreign policy analysis, the book examines both the external (anarchy, power, interdependence) and the internal (leaders, bureaucracies, societal groups, public opinion) factors determining the foreign policies of these three key countries. Evidently, any evaluation of the future of the CSDP(Common Security and Defence Policy )-NATO relationship requires an account of US foreign policy interests, since the US is the most powerful country in the world, maintaining the largest military in the Euro-Atlantic region. The US wants to maintain its leadership in transatlantic relations. French interests in this context compete with those of the US, as it wants to establish a continental European leadership. Turkey is a long-time member of NATO with the second largest military in the Alliance. As a non-EU NATO member country, Turkey is concerned about the decline of NATO's role vis-a-vis the CSDP in the European context. Furthermore, Turkey has been vetoing EU-NATO security cooperation since 2004.

The book is unique in offering a complete analysis of the future of CSDP-NATO relations, taking into account all the key players' grand strategies. Accordingly, it addresses the following questions:

* What are the foreign policy interests of the US, Turkey, and France regarding the future of the transatlantic security relationship?
* What future awaits EU-NATO security relations? Will NATO and the EU part ways?

The results of this study have wide-ranging and significant implications on the future of transatlantic and international security in the twenty-first century.

This book will be of interest to students of NATO, European Security, US Foreign Policy, war and conflict studies and IR/Security Studies in general.