Transformation of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy After 2014 Regarding Ukraine Crisis

Year 2022, Volume: 18 Issue: 41, 1 - 30, 25.04.2022

Ahmet Erciyas Abdullah Soydemir

https://doi.org/10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.1061410

Abstract

This research aims at analysing the nature and transformation of the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy since 2014. Having been founded in the post-Cold War peace environment, the Common Security and Defence Policy had an expeditionary characteristic compatible with the European Union’s soft/normative power. However, this peaceful security environment changed after the Ukraine Crisis in 2014. With new security parameters, the transformation of the Common Security and Defence Policy needs to be analysed in an academic context. In this regard, the research question of the article has been conceptualized as “To what extend has post-Ukraine Crisis security perception affected Common Security and Defence Policy transformation?”. There are two main findings of this research. First, the characteristics of the Common Security and Defence Policy have evolved from being expeditionary to being territorial/collective defence in nature. Second, the fragmentation in the European Union is deepening in terms of defence and security policies. This research suggests that the likely outcome is that the European Union will choose to conform to the United States’ NATO policies in order to deter the Russian Federation

Keywords

Common Security and Defence Policy, NATO, European Union, Defence and Security, Ukraine Crisis

Supporting Institution

Yoktur

Project Number

Yoktur

Thanks

Yoktur

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