Description: "The war in Ukraine has brought about a paradigm shift in EU security and defense policy. It has gone from being a taboo in the European integration process to occupying a central place in the EU agenda. Such revitalization had been occurring progressively since the 2016 Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy; however, the war context transforms the dimension of the process. Paradoxically, it forces us to equip ourselves with security and defense capabilities never foreseen before, but makes us more dependent and less autonomous in our decision-making capacity. This book will critically analyze the challenge it poses, as well as the new instruments that the EU is equipping itself with in this area. War forces the EU to reinvent itself as a geopolitical and security actor, instead of acting only as a normative and technocratic actor"--
