Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in Post-Cold War Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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3. Context: The Case for Convergence

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   2. Europe’s Partial and Selective Emulation of the US-led Revolution in Military Affairs

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   3. Convergence and Divergence in the Institutional Forums of Defence Policy: Functional Complementarity; Spatial and Temporal Differentiation

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4. Theorising Defence Policy Convergence

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   2. Competing Theoretical Frameworks: Realist and Cultural Approaches

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5. Testing Cultural and Realist Approaches: Defence Policies Between International Structure and Executive Autonomy

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   2. France: Domestic Incentives and Timely Adaptation to Systemic Imperatives

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   3. Germany: Domestic Constraint and the Temporal Management of Reform

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   4. The United Kingdom — From Strategic Innovation to Stasis

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   5. Conclusions: The Empirical and Theoretical Implications

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6. Back Matter

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Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms.

• cold war
• defence policy
• Europe
• executive
• Germany
• Institution
• Policy
• realism
• reforms
• revolution
• european union politics
• us politics

• Department of Political, International, and Policy Studies, University of Surrey, UK

  Tom Dyson

• International Security Research Division, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany

  Tom Dyson

TOM DYSON is Lecturer in International Security at the University of Surrey's Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, UK. He is currently undertaking a two year sabbatical as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany. His published work focuses on British and German foreign, defence and security policies and European defence co-operation.

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