NATO has been a successful forum for managing European security policy. Yet European governments have repeatedly tried to build a new security institution in NA

The thawing of the Cold War has brought new concerns over the nature of European security to the fore and uncovered major differences in the approaches of indiv

Examining the interplay between geopolitics, the strategic priorities of Europe's most powerful nations, Britain, Germany and France, and the evolution of NATO

This book asks why European countries tried to build a security institution outside of NATO, emphasising the influence of political party ideologies.

This book analyses whether the EU’s drift towards European strategic autonomy presents a challenge or a window of opportunity for its small member states to a