Bulletin n. 3/2010
January 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Ferreira-Pereira Laura, Groom A. J. R.
    ‘Mutual solidarity’ within the EU common foreign and security policy: What is the name of the game?
    in International Politics , Volume 47, Issue 6, November ,  2010 ,  596–616
    This article assesses the effective meaning, scope and implications of intra-Community solidarity in the security and defence area. It touches on the genealogy of the conception of solidarity and its various interpretations as well as both the tensions this entails and impediments this creates for development of a common security and defence policy. It concludes that political solidarity has been gradually taking root on the basis of a common shared modus vivendi, although not without embarrassing setbacks. Military solidarity is more than a mirage but not yet a firmly based reality given the existence in the European Union of distinct foreign and security policy identities shaped by traditionally defined national interests that still dominate intergovernmental cooperation in the area.
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