Description:
This book analyses whether the EU's drift towards European strategic autonomy presents a challenge or a window of opportunity for its small member states to advance their security interests.
Review Quotes:
'In a world that is too often preoccupied with great power politics, this book is a much-needed and timely contribution for understanding the other side of international relations, small states. It should be required reading for anyone wishing to examine contemporary European politics and security.'
Marc Ozawa, NATO Defense College, Rome
'By bringing together for the first time scholars from small states to write about European small states' perceptions of, and engagements with, European strategic autonomy, this book addresses an important gap in the academic literature on European defence. It is a crucial introduction for those interested in the subject.'
Lukas Milevski, Institute of History, Leiden University, the Netherlands
'This monograph, in arguing that the concept of European strategic autonomy is both a challenge to and an opportunity for the national security interests of the small states of the EU, presents vital lessons for all small states facing the vicissitudes of Great Power assertiveness and aggression.'
Bernard Loo Fook Weng, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore