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Transaction Costs and Security Institutions

Unravelling the ESDP

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Moritz Weiss

    1. Centre for Security Economics and Technology, Institute of Political Science, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Transformations of the State (TRST)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Preferences, Security Institutions and Transaction Costs in World Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 3-18

    3. Theorising Preference Formation for Institution-Building in European Security

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 19-28

    4. Transaction Costs and Security Institutions

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 29-50

  3. Unravelling the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The Demand for a Security Institution: German, British and French Perceptions of the Environment in the 1990s

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 53-59

    3. Germany — From Defending the Alliance’s Territory to Crisis Management for the Union

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 60-78

    4. Great Britain — From Opposing the Union towards a Subordinated ESDP

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 79-96

    5. France — From Gradual WEU Integration to Full-Scale ESDP

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 97-113

    6. Germany — An Incrementally Decreasing Willingness to Bind the Country

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 114-134

    7. Great Britain — From No EU Security Policy to a Purely Intergovernmental ESDP

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 135-151

    8. France — A Consistently Intergovernmental Approach towards ESDP

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 152-169

  4. Transaction Costs and Security Institutions: ESDP Unravelled

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Alternative Explanations and Theoretical Scope of the Transaction Costs Framework

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 173-188

    3. Conclusion — Theory-Development in the European Security and Defence Policy

      • Moritz Weiss
      Pages 189-210

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 211-269
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About this book

Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to approach differing institutional preferences. It argues that the reduction and limitation of transaction costs was the primary determinant of security preferences.

Reviews

"This is an immensely ambitious book. Rejecting as inadequate and unconvincing realist, liberal-intergovernmentalist and constructivist approaches to ESDP, Weiss embraces political economy to argue that European states embarked on cooperation as a conscious exercise in reducing current and future transaction costs in the provision of collective security. Exhaustively researched and densely informed with social science theory, the book will be fiercely debated by scholars of both international relations and European integration."

- Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale, USA and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics ad personam and Emeritus Professor of European Studies at the University of Bath, UK

"One of the few theory-guided studies on EU defense cooperation and a major contribution to the literature essential reading for students of European and international defense cooperation."

- Markus Jachtenfuchs, Professor of European and Global Governance, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

"In this innovative study, Moritz Weiss applies the tools of transaction cost economics to the analysis of the changing security preferences of the most powerful European states in the decade following the end of the Cold War. The approach not only provides a compelling explanation for the overall emergence and design of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) but also the particular form of military cooperation that ensued."

- James Davis, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute for Political Science, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

"Combining theoretical rigor with empirical depth Transaction Costs and Security Institutions is a must for anyone interested in the complex history of the European Defence and Security Policy (ESDP)."

- Bernhard Zangl, Professor of Global Governance and Public Policy, Ludwig-Maximilans-University (LMU) Munich and Speaker of the Munich Center on Governance, Communication, Public Policy and Law (MCG), Germany

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Security Economics and Technology, Institute of Political Science, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

    Moritz Weiss

About the author

MORITZ WEISS Senior Fellow at the Centre for Security Economics and Technology (C SET) and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of St Gallen, Switzerland. His articles have appeared in journals including the Journal of International Relations and Development and Cooperation and Conflict.
 
 

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