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ESDP - att vara eller inte vara -Rationella förklaringar och ledarskapets betydelse för ESDP:s födelse i Köln 1999.

Andersson, Mikael (2007)
Department of Political Science
Abstract
At the EU summit in Cologne in 1999, a consensus was reached concerning the common foreign and security policy within the European Union. It was decided at the summit that the WEU (Western European Union) should be incorporated into the EU - whom would then be given military capability to act autonomously without the necessity of Nato involvement. This essay investigates the factors that made this agreement possible from a rational choice perspective, but also from the perspective of the power and influence on negotiations on behalf of various types of leadership present at the meeting. Many nations at the summit of Cologne where for the creation of a military force in the form of ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) within the... (More)
At the EU summit in Cologne in 1999, a consensus was reached concerning the common foreign and security policy within the European Union. It was decided at the summit that the WEU (Western European Union) should be incorporated into the EU - whom would then be given military capability to act autonomously without the necessity of Nato involvement. This essay investigates the factors that made this agreement possible from a rational choice perspective, but also from the perspective of the power and influence on negotiations on behalf of various types of leadership present at the meeting. Many nations at the summit of Cologne where for the creation of a military force in the form of ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) within the Union, and many where against such a decision. However a consensus was reached and that is what this essay shall try to explain. The results shows that power and influence where leading factors in the reaching of an agreed consensus at Cologne on the issues. The impact of various leaderships cannot be neglected either of course, and it is important to point out that without good leadership the negotiations would not have reached an amicable consensus. (Less)
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Andersson, Mikael
supervisor
organization
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type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
ESDP, Rational Choice, Leadership, Cologne summit, Negotiation, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
language
Swedish
id
1321390
date added to LUP
2007-09-05 00:00:00
date last changed
2007-09-05 00:00:00
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  abstract     = {{At the EU summit in Cologne in 1999, a consensus was reached concerning the common foreign and security policy within the European Union. It was decided at the summit that the WEU (Western European Union) should be incorporated into the EU - whom would then be given military capability to act autonomously without the necessity of Nato involvement. This essay investigates the factors that made this agreement possible from a rational choice perspective, but also from the perspective of the power and influence on negotiations on behalf of various types of leadership present at the meeting. Many nations at the summit of Cologne where for the creation of a military force in the form of ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) within the Union, and many where against such a decision. However a consensus was reached and that is what this essay shall try to explain. The results shows that power and influence where leading factors in the reaching of an agreed consensus at Cologne on the issues. The impact of various leaderships cannot be neglected either of course, and it is important to point out that without good leadership the negotiations would not have reached an amicable consensus.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Mikael}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{ESDP - att vara eller inte vara -Rationella förklaringar och ledarskapets betydelse för ESDP:s födelse i Köln 1999.}},
  year         = {{2007}},
}