Передумови зародження та формування співробітництва держав-членів Європейського Союзу у сфері оборони
Background and formation of cooperation between European Union member states in the field of defense

Summary/Abstract: The historical way of development of integration processes in the defence sphere, startingwith the end of World War II up to nowadays, appeared to be rather complicated. The Europeandevelopment shows, that security and defence can be provided only by successful activity ofdifferent international blocks and organization.The main preconditions and tendencies, investigated in this article, are the basis for thefurther development of European security system. The investigation of European Unity membersevolution of cooperation in the defence sphere gives the opportunity not only to state the mainstages of such cooperation and its features on the contemporary level, but to make a forecast of itsfuture development, taking into consideration the challenges the European Union faced with duringthe last years.Among the most important preconditions for generating and formation of the Europeanstate-members cooperation in the defense sphere, the following must be underlined: the demand ofpeace and security, the aspiration for economic development and welfare and keeping of economicand political significance on the international arena. Proceeding from these preconditions andtendencies the European Union is widening nowadays and will widen further its own defencesystem.At the same time the new challenges and threats appear. The European society has toidentify them and create its effective law and institutional means to resist them. Because of the greatnumber of threats the achievements in the international security system effect become the main taskfor all peoples.

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