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European security in NATO's shadow : party ideologies and institution building /
"NATO has been a successful forum for managing European security policy. Yet European governments have repeatedly tried to build a new security institution in NATO's shadow. In this innovative book, Stephanie C. Hofmann asks why governments attempted to create an additional institution des...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; European Security in NATO's Shadow; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; European security cooperation; The argument: political parties and institutional overlap; Alternative explanations; Claims and contributions; Plan of the book; 2 Political party ideologies and security cooperation; Political ideologies; Defining and mapping political ideologies; Political ideologies and security cooperation; Interpreters of values: political parties and party factions; Political parties, policies and policy change; Parties and ideologies.
- Parties and ideologiesFactions, ideological emphasis and policy redirection; Factions, ideological emphasis and policy redirection; The lack of strong representational linkages; Security ideology and vested interests; Security ideology and vested interests; Security ideology and the electorate; Security ideology and the electorate; 3 The success and failure of European security cooperation; The causal logic; Party ideologies and the national interest; Straightforward translation of ideology into policy; Straightforward translation of ideology into policy.
- Coalitions and ideological compromisesCoalitions and ideological compromises; Power-sharing and possible ideological compromises; Power-sharing and possible ideological compromises; Bureaucracy on a leash; Bureaucracy on a leash; International ideological configurations; Veto players, salience and trade-offs; The theoretical lens: domestic and ideational variables and Europe; Ideational variables and the domestic-international nexus; European security cooperation, institutions and junctures; Alternative explanations; Partisan values: the left-right dimension.
- Rational choice institutionalism: overcoming the barriers to Pareto efficiencyRealism: power aggregation and soft-balancing; Research method and operationalization of key variables; Degree of ideological congruence; Partisan values; Nature of the cooperation problem; Power; Institutional robustness; Research design and case selection; 4 The end of the Cold War and the Maastricht Treaty; Confronting uncertainty after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Political parties in Europe; The United Kingdom: Euroskeptics in power; The Conservative Party: European realists.
- The Conservative Party: European realistsThe Labour Party: peace and stability; The Labour Party: peace and stability; France: the Socialist reign; Socialists: Europe first; Socialists: Europe first; RPR: national sovereignty first; RPR: national sovereignty first; Germany: in favor of multilateralism; CDU/CSU: Europe first; CDU/CSU: Europe first; FDP: Europe and multilateralism; FDP: Europe and multilateralism; The CDU/CSU and FDP coalition government; SPD: multilateralism, above all; The CDU/CSU and FDP coalition government; SPD: multilateralism, above all; The Greens: peaceful cooperation.