Search for a Common European Foreign and Security Policy: Leaders, Cognitions, and Questions of Insitutional Viability Book

List of Figures     vii
List of Tables     ix
Preface     xi
List of Abbreviations     xv
The Argument
Political Leadership and Security Integration     3
The Argument in Brief     5
The Institutional Evolution of European Security     7
The Institutional Problematique     12
Relevance     14
Plan of the Book     15
A Cognitive Theory of Institutional Viability     17
Leaders and International Institutions     18
Institutions as Shared Mental Models     20
Forming Mental Models     23
Discerning Mental Models     25
Manifestations of Mental Models     27
The Cases
The Kosovo War     37
The Origins of the Kosovo Crisis     37
Internationalization of the Conflict     42
Mental Models in the Kosovo Crisis     45
France     48
Great Britain     54
Germany     61
Conclusion     67
The Afghanistan War     71
The Origins of the War     71
Internationalization of the Conflict     76
Mental Models After 9/11     79
France     81
Great Britain     87
Germany     94
Conclusion     99
The Iraq War     103
The Origins of the Iraq Crisis     103
Internationalization of the Crisis     108
Mental Models in the Iraq Crisis     112
France     114
Great Britain     120
Germany     129
Conclusion     136
The Implications
Conclusions and Implications: A European Common Foreign and Security Policy?     141
The Lessons of Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq     142
The Crisis with Iran     147
The Crisis with North Korea     150
Theorizing Europe's Common Foreign and Security Policy     153
Questions of World Order     155
Notes     161
Bibliography     189
Index     217