The present study seeks to offer a coherent theoretical account of the ESDP’s emergence, institutional design and relationship with NATO through the application of a theory drawn from comparative politics, Historical Institutionalism. In so doing, the study seeks to situate the ESDP in both time and space; in time, by emphasizing the importance of previous institutional arrangements for understanding subsequent ones (e.g. through so-called “path dependency”); and in space by considering the role and impact of the ESDP's inter-relationship with other institutional structures, both within the EU’s single institutional framework (e.g. Coreper) and beyond it (e.g. NATO).
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The present study seeks to offer a coherent theoretical account of the ESDP’s emergence, institutional design and relationship with NATO through the application of a theory drawn from comparative politics, Historical Institutionalism. In so doing, the study seeks to situate the ESDP in both time and space; in time, by emphasizing the importance of previous institutional arrangements for understanding subsequent ones (e.g. through so-called “path dependency”); and in space by considering the ro...
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