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THE EU STRATEGIC CULTURE: A SMALL STATE APPROACH
Unformatted Document Text:  Preliminary draft. Please do not cite without written permission from the author. Comments are welcome Paper presented at the 46 th Annual ISA Convention Honolulu, Hawaii March 1 st -5 th 2005 Panel Small States and the ESDP THE EU STRATEGIC CULTURE: A SMALL STATE APPROACH Asle Toje 1 Abstract The intense debate regarding the potential of the European Union's Common Security andDefence policy tells a tale of high hopes and severe obstacles. The militarising of theEuropean Union opens the question of what sort of strategic actor the EU will be. Thequestion of strategic culture was a focal point of the first-ever European Security Strategylaunched in late 2003. The problem is that the EU persistently fails to display the behaviourideas and expectations usually associated with great powers. This research paper disputes thenotion that the EU is necessarily unfit to develop a strategic culture or that the EU must bechanged in order to facilitate such a culture, assumptions commonly held on both sides of theAtlantic. Instead, it posits a counter-intuitive hypothesis: that a EU strategic culture hasalready emerged and that the tenets of the EU strategic culture are not those of a great power -they are those of a small state.

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Preliminary draft. Please do not cite without written permission from the author. Comments are welcome
Paper presented at the 46
th
Annual ISA Convention
Honolulu, Hawaii March 1
st
-5
th
2005
Panel Small States and the ESDP
THE EU STRATEGIC CULTURE: A SMALL STATE APPROACH
Asle Toje
1
Abstract
The intense debate regarding the potential of the European Union's Common Security and
Defence policy tells a tale of high hopes and severe obstacles. The militarising of the
European Union opens the question of what sort of strategic actor the EU will be. The
question of strategic culture was a focal point of the first-ever European Security Strategy
launched in late 2003. The problem is that the EU persistently fails to display the behaviour
ideas and expectations usually associated with great powers. This research paper disputes the
notion that the EU is necessarily unfit to develop a strategic culture or that the EU must be
changed in order to facilitate such a culture, assumptions commonly held on both sides of the
Atlantic. Instead, it posits a counter-intuitive hypothesis: that a EU strategic culture has
already emerged and that the tenets of the EU strategic culture are not those of a great power -
they are those of a small state.


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