ISBN : 2747595269
BEYOND THE CIVILIAN POWER EU DEBATE
"The idea of Europe as a purely civil power is behind us. The great debate of the 1980s over Europe as a civil power or a military power defmitely seems to be a thing of the past" (Gnesotto, 2004, 1). Well, not quite. Not only did the debate continue into the 1990s, but lumbers on today, in spite of the recent developments in European security and defence policy - including, notably, the intention to set up battle groups. Numerous papers and articles written in the last few years insist that we can (and should) still characterise the European...