European Security in NATO's Shadow: Party Ideologies and Institution Building

摘要

Most people in the United States ask why Europe does not do more to take responsibility for its own defence. Stephanie Hofmann asks why Europeans would bother. With NATO providing for most of Europe's security and also offering an institutional framework within which Europeans can be involved, it makes little sense to organise a competing security arrangement. Indeed, US security providers (like former NATO Ambassador Nicholas Burns) would likely see any efforts at creating an autonomous European security identity as counterproductive. Far from seeking independence, they would argue, Europeans should be looking to find ways to take up more of the existing burdens.