European Security Law

Author: Martin Trybus; Nigel White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199218622
Published In: March 2007
Format: Hardback , 400 pages
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Provides a groundbreaking, first comprehensive analysis of a growing and under-examined area of European Law
Examines the development of different aspects of EU security including peacekeeping and responses to terrorism, such as the current deployment of EU forces in the Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Places the discussion of European law and policy within the wider international legal and institutional context, focusing on the relationship with NATO
Provides a full legal analysis of the constitutional framework for EU security action, including coverage of the relationship between security law and the wider issues of EU external relations, and the potential impact of the changes `roposed by the Constitutional Treaty
Written by the leading European legal experts on security issues

There have been a number of EU military operations in the last few years, evidence of a growing European military confidence, which in turn is a reflection of a developing competence in security matters. The creation of the European Union and its Common Foreign and Security Policy by the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 heralded this development, though the idea of a common defence can be traced to the beginnings of European integration. This book provides an analysis of the EU's evolving legal framework and powers on such matters, but it also recognizes that such a framework sits, sometimes uneasily, within the wider body of EU and International Law. The EU's security and defence policy also overlaps with those of other organizations such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), but more especially the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). EU relations with NATO have, in particular, caused some concern and are still evolving as both organizations seek to play a wider security role in the post-Cold War, and now post-9/11, era.

With security now dominating political agendas at the domestic, regional, and international levels, it is no surprise that the EU's concern for security has grown apace, and, following the Union's respect for the rule of law, has been shaped legally as well as politically. This book evaluates the progress of the Union in this regard in its international context and in the wider context of European integration. The analysis is in the main a legal one, but is placed squarely within historical and political perspectives.

Readership: Academics, advanced students and policy-makers in the field of EU defence co-operation and international security

Introduction
1: Martin Trybus and Nigel D. White: An Introduction to European Security Law
Part 1: Origins and Future of European Security Integration
2: Martin Trybus: The Vision of the European Defence Community and a Common Defence for the European Union
3: Martin Trybus: On the Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU Constitutional Treaty
Part 2: Elements of European Security Policy
4: Frederik Naert: ESDP in Practice: Increasingly Varied and Ambitious EU Security and Defence Operations
5: Nicholas Tsagourias: EU Peacekeeping Operations: Legal and Theoretical Issues
6: Ademola Abbas: Extraterritorial Collective Security: The European Union and Operation Artemis
7: Mirko Sossai: The Anti-Terrorism Dimension of ESDP
8: Heike Krieger: Common European Defence: Competition or Compatibility with NATO?
9: Aris Georgopoulos: The European Armaments Policy: A Conditio Sine Qua Non of the European Security and Defence Policy?
Part 3: Consistency of the European Security Framework
10: Ramses A. Wessel: Differentiation in EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy: Between Coherence and Flexibility
11: Panos Koutrakos: Security and Defence Policy within the Context of EU External Relations: Issues of Coherence, Consistency, and Effectiveness
12: Fabien Terpan: EU-NATO Relations: Interoperability as a Strategic Consideration and a Legal Requirement
13: Marco Odello: The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and European Security Law
14: Nigel White: The EU as a Regional Security Actor within the International Legal Order
Conclusion
15: Nigel D. White and Martin Trybus: Conclusions on the Current State of European Security Law

Edited by Martin Trybus, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield, and Nigel White, Professor of International Law, University of Sheffield
Contributors:
Nigel White, Professor of International Law at the University of Sheffield
Martin Trybus, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield,
Frederik Naert, Legal Advisor at the Belgian Ministry of Defence
Nicholas Tsagourias, Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol
Ademola Abbas, Reader in Law at the University of Reading
Mirko Sossai, Research Fellow at the LUISS University in Rome
Heike Krieger, Professor of Public Law, Public International Law, European Law and Comparative Public Law at the Free University of Berlin
Aris Georgopoulos, Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham
Ramses A. Wessel, Professor of the Law of the European Union and other International Organizations at the University of Twente
Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Law at the University of Bristol
Fabien Terpan, Maître de conférences in public law at the University of Grenoble
Marco Odello, Lecturer in Law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth