European Security Cooperation: A Response to Unipolarity – or Anticipation of Multipolarity?

I already brought forward a neorealist approach to the emergence of the European Union which has been well received. Subsequently, I decided to write about European security cooperation, as well. We’d like to shed light on two competing neorealist views on the issue. This discussion shows that structural realism is far from unable to explain European […]

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The Beginnings of the EU: The Structural Realist Perspective

The European integration is commonly understood as being driven by either functional necessities, a sense of community, or economic gains. A modern reading of neorealism reveals a new interpretation of the European Union’s emergence and early development. It depicts that power developments in fact let European countries little choice than to integrate and that the […]

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