Transaction Costs and Security Institutions

Part I. Preferences, Security Institutions and Transaction Costs in World Politics

1. Introduction
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2. Theorising Preference Formation for Institution-Building in European Security
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3. Transaction Costs and Security Institutions
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Part II. Unravelling the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)

4. The Demand for a Security Institution: German, British and French Perceptions of the Environment in the 1990s
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5. Germany — From Defending the Alliance’s Territory to Crisis Management for the Union
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6. Great Britain — From Opposing the Union towards a Subordinated ESDP
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7. France — From Gradual WEU Integration to Full-Scale ESDP
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8. Germany — An Incrementally Decreasing Willingness to Bind the Country
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9. Great Britain — From No EU Security Policy to a Purely Intergovernmental ESDP
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10. France — A Consistently Intergovernmental Approach towards ESDP
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Part III. Transaction Costs and Security Institutions: ESDP Unravelled

11. Alternative Explanations and Theoretical Scope of the Transaction Costs Framework
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12. Conclusion — Theory-Development in the European Security and Defence Policy
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Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, International Relations, Political Economy, Military and Defence Studies, Conflict Studies, International Organization