Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added value of practice approaches

Græger, Nina

doi:10.1080/09662839.2017.1355304

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“…As most high‐ranking member state disaster managers were present, as well as key EU practitioners from the Commission and Council, this unique empirical setting proved invaluable for examining an emerging practice and sense of community among disaster managers. While other studies have provided significant contributions to practice studies in European foreign policy and security (Adler‐Nissen, ; Bicchi, ; Bremberg, ; Bueger, ; Graeger, ; Lequesne, ; Mérand and Rayroux, ), one of their main weaknesses is that very few are based on participant observation (Kuus, , ). This method is strongly recommended due to its ability to reveal the actors' unreflective practices – the logic of practice – instead of their own rationalizations of their actions (often long afterwards), that the interview method has to content with.…”

Section: Approach and Methodsmentioning

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Explaining the European Union's Security Role in Practice

Ekengren

Hollis

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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European states may no longer expect inter-state violence, but they do expect complex threats emanating from storms, epidemics, terror attacks and earthquakes. The EU has answered these threats through the rapid and far-reaching institutionalization of European security cooperation. However, member states hesitate to use their common capacities. While both intergovernmental and constructivist approaches treat this pattern as evidence of weak integration and as unimportant to the European security community, we examine this cooperation through the lens of practice theory and reveal how the growth of EU capacities is fully compatible with a critical and cautious approach to activating these resources in the everyday work of national officials. Using unique empirical data retrieved through participant observation in the first multisectoral crisis management exercise held by the EU, the findings of this analysis sketch the contours of a new type of security community.

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Section: Approach and Methodsmentioning

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Explaining the European Union's Security Role in Practice

Ekengren

Hollis

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Yet, other scholars such as Graeger (, ) have zoomed out from high politics with the purpose of focusing on the practical and inarticulate social interactions, which embody the organisations under investigation. This approach has a lot of value as it allows us to appreciate how EU and NATO officials work together on a daily basis transcending fundamental disagreements.…”

Section: The Eu–nato Relationship: a Theoretical Puzzlementioning

confidence: 99%

Keep Calm and Carry On (Differently): NATO and CSDP after Brexit

Cladi

Locatelli

2019

Global Policy

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This article investigates the impact that Brexit could have on the relationship between NATO and the Common European Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The relationship between NATO and CSDP has historically not been straightforward and Brexit seems to have intervened as an aggravating factor. In fact, the EU has launched a series of military initiatives and it has now renewed its ambition to create separate military headquarters from NATO. The UK will join countries such as Norway and Turkey in being a member of NATO but not of the EU, affording greater importance to NATO to the detriment of cooperation with its European allies. This article provides an analytical framework to analyse the possible effects of Brexit upon the EU–NATO relationship. In so doing, it lays out three distinct levels of analysis. These are the state level, the inter‐organisational level and, finally, the personnel level. The levels of analysis allow us to generate empirical observations, which then lead us to suggest three scenarios for the development of the EU–NATO relationship beyond Brexit.

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“…Thus, overall, this special issue follows three main objectives: (1) synthesise the state of the art in the conceptual, theoretical and empirical literature on EU-NATO (Koops 2017, and this this introduction), (2) propose some new analytical approaches and potential avenues for further research (Duke and Gebhard 2017, Graeger 2017, Howorth 2017, Koops 2017 and ( 3) develop further empirical evidence on the nature, performance and prospects of this crucial inter-organisational relationship (Fiott 2017, Lavallée 2017, Mayer 2017. Given the many challenges the two organisations are facing both on their own and in relation to each other, discussions will likely continue beyond the foreseeable future.…”

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“…The first section of the special issue focuses on theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of EU-NATO (Duke and Gebhard 2017, Graeger 2017, Koops 2017, followed by a more empirical section on key issues occupying the two organisations in their relationship with each other (Fiott 2017, Lavallée 2017, Mayer 2017. In this introduction, we aim to contextualise and provide a historical, thematic and analytical backdrop to the individual contributions to this volume, and position our work in the existing literature.…”

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EU–NATO relations: running on the fumes of informed deconfliction

Smith

Gebhard

2017

European Security

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This article provides the framework for the contributions to this special issue. It first puts the theme into context and outlines the main issues that justify further analytical engagement with European Union (EU)-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) relations to the extent we propose here. We then provide some historical background to frame the discussion, and in doing so also outline the current state of interaction between the EU and NATO. We then briefly contextualise the changing strategic environment shaping the relationship, including recent proposals to implement their declared "strategic partnership". This introduction then presents an overview of the existing literature to set the stage for a renewed look at the research agenda that has emerged over the last two decades. We close with an outline of the individual contributions to this special issue, which are presented in two sections: one focusing on theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of EU of EU-NATO relations, and one on the interorganisational relationship in practice, followed by a concluding synopsis and outlook.

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Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added value of practice approaches

Cited by 19 publications

References 71 publications

Explaining the European Union's Security Role in Practice

Explaining the European Union's Security Role in Practice

Keep Calm and Carry On (Differently): NATO and CSDP after Brexit

EU–NATO relations: running on the fumes of informed deconfliction

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