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The European Defence Agency This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution. Despite its critical role in European strategic and military affairs as the key hub of European policy-m aking in the field of armaments, the Agency has hitherto received very little attention from the academic and research community around Europe. To fill this gap in the literature, the book covers a multitude of interrelated themes and topics. Not only does it provide a detailed analysis and assessment of the Agency’s record as the first institution dealing solely with EU armaments policy, but it also links these findings to international relations and European integration theory. Thematically, the contributions go beyond the mere description of achievements, gaps and risks, elaborating on novel themes such as space, offsets, pooling and sharing, and transatlantic armaments relations. The book combines an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European defence with theoretical and ontological pluralism, and seeks to unveil the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of armaments col- laboration and capability development under the aegis of the EDA. The multi- faceted orientation of the book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU institutions, defence studies, arms control and international relations in general. Nikolaos Karampekios is a research fellow at the Centre for Security Eco- nomics and Technology, University of St. Gallen, and holds a PhD in Technology Policy from the National Technical University of Athens. Iraklis Oikonomou is a political scientist and holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy Series Editors: Sven Biscop Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium and Richard Whitman University of Kent, UK The aim of this series is to bring together the key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds, and assess the state of play of the EU as an international security actor. The series explores the EU, and its member states, security policy and practices in a changing global and regional context. While the focus is on the politico- military dimen- sion, security is put in the context of the holistic approach advocated by the EU. Tactical Nuclear Weapons and Euro- Atlantic Security The future of NATO Edited by Paolo Foradori The EU and Military Operations A comparative analysis Katarina Engberg The EU and Effective Multilateralism Internal and external reform practices Edited by Edith Drieskens and Louise van Schaik EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Operations Power, purpose and domestic politics Benjamin Pohl EU Foreign Policy, Transitional Justice and Mediation Principle, policy and practice Laura Davis The European Defence Agency Arming Europe Edited by Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou The European Defence Agency Arming Europe Edited by Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 selection and editorial matter, Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou; individual chapters, the contributors The right of the editor to be identified as the author of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data The European Defence Agency : arming Europe / edited by Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou. pages cm. – (Routledge studies in European security and strategy) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. European Defence Agency. 2. European Union countries– Military policy. 3. European Union countries–Defenses. I. Karampekios, Nikolaos, editor of compilation. II. Oikonomou, Iraklis, editor of compilation. UA646.E92346 2015 355.8094–dc23 2014039808 ISBN: 978-1-138-79997-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-75574-8 (ebk) Typeset in Baskerville by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear To Eleni and Ilias To Andreas, Smaragdi, Diogenis and Dimitris This page intentionally left blank Contents List of tables x Notes on contributors xi Foreword xv HILMAR LINNENKAMP Acknowledgements xix List of abbreviations xx Introduction 1 NIKOLAOS KARAMPEKIOS AND IRAKLIS OIKONOMOU PART I Theorising the EDA 9 1 Institutionalist approaches to agency establishment 11 HELENA EKELUND 2 The EDA and the discursive construction of European defence and security 27 ANDRé BARRINHA 3 Brothers in arms? The European arms industry and the making of the EDA 43 IRAKLIS OIKONOMOU PART II The EDA in action 63 4 EU military capability development and the EDA: ideas, interests and institutions 65 ALISTAIR J.K. SHEPHERD viii Contents 5 The EDA and armaments collaboration 84 KATIA VLACHOS- DENGLER 6 The EDA and the field of research and technology 102 ANJA DAHLMANN, MARCEL DICKOW AND LéA TISSERANT 7 The EDA and EU defence procurement integration 118 ARIS GEORGOPOULOS PART III The EDA, the nation- state and beyond 137 8 France, the UK and the EDA 139 JOCELYN MAWDSLEY 9 Germany’s limited leadership in the EDA: international and domestic constraints on defence cooperation 155 TOM DYSON 10 Organisations at war: the EDA, NATO and the European Commission 171 MARC R. DEVORE PART IV Broadening the EU armaments policy agenda 189 11 The EDA and military capability development: making pooling and sharing work 191 LAURA CHAPPELL AND PETAR PETROV 12 The EDA and the development of a European Defence Technological and Industrial Base: between nationalisation and globalisation 207 MARIE- LOUISE CHAGNAUD, CHRISTIAN MöLLING AND TORBEN SCHüTz 13 The EDA and defence offsets: trailing after the Commission 225 PETER PLATzGUMMER Contents ix 14 The EDA’s inroads into space 241 FRANK SLIJPER Conclusion: future trajectories and a new research agenda 260 NIKOLAOS KARAMPEKIOS AND IRAKLIS OIKONOMOU Index 266
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