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49 J. Common Mkt. Stud. 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/jcmks49 and id is 1 raw text is: JCMS 2011 Volume 49. Number 1. pp. 1-21 Security Co-operation beyond the Nation-State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy* CHRIS J. BICKERTON University of Amsterdam BASTIEN IRONDELLE University of Oxford/Sciences Po, Paris ANAND MENON University of Birmingham Introduction The security policies of the European Union have in recent years become a central concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. A senior EU official has commented wryly that, whilst only around 200 officials actually 'do' the EU's common security and defence policy (CSDP),' there appear to be many thousands of academics and students all over the world who engage in its study (Howorth, 2007, p. 4). Leading European officials regularly cite secu- rity policy as central to the role and purpose of contemporary European integration. In Javier Solana's words, in the past the EU was intended to secure peace in Europe; today, it is about being a peace-builder in the rest of the world (Solana, 2007). Several factors explain this burgeoning interest. First, whilst security and defence policies were long considered by students of the EU as the poor cousins of economic integration (0hrgaard, 1997), they are increasingly viewed as central to the process of European integration. Here can be seen * The editors would like to thank the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, the Oxford-Sciences Po programme (OXPO), the European Studies Centre at St Anthony's College, Oxford, and UACES for their financial support. Bastien Irondelle would like to thank the Deakin Fellowship of St Anthony's College for all its support. The editors would also like to thank all the special issue reviewers and the participants of the February 2010 workshop in Oxford on CSDP for their contribution to the project. ' The European security and defence policy (ESDP) was renamed the common security and defence policy (CSDP) in the Lisbon Treaty. This editorial will refer throughout to the CSDP in order to avoid confusion. C 2010 The Author(s) JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies C 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148, USA

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