Security in the 21st Century

The West and the Global Power Shift

“…This picture gradually changed after the Cold War, and especially after the 1999 Kosovo crisis, with new EU commitments to security cooperation in the Amsterdam (1999) and especially Nice (2001) Treaties. What became known as the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) repeatedly became an object of contempt in Washington for its potential to undermine or at least work at cross-purposes to NATO (see Howorth 2007 ;Cottey 2013 ).…”