SECURITY AND DEFENSE IN THE EU GLOBAL STRATEGY
SECURITY AND DEFENSE IN THE EU GLOBAL STRATEGY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the Security and Defense Policy of the European Union (EU) and to identify its present and future challenges in the context of the tense international climate.Using an explorative policy analysis of the main stages of the EU Security and Defense Policy and the main findings discovered in the relevant literature overview, this paper is structured as follows: it presents first a brief history of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), then it investigates the role of the Lisbon Treaty in consolidating EU’s crisis management apparatus and comments the EU Global Strategy as an integrated approach to conflicts and crises; in the end, the paper concludes by averting the future challenges of the European security and defense and by stressing the need of a thorough reform of the EU security and defense policy, including a European Defense Union, the creation of a European army, a better pooling of EU member states military resources and a stronger EU-NATO cooperation.

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