The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies : Aims, Actors and Mechanisms of Integration

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This book provides the first substantial treatment of the maritime foreign and security policies of the European Union. Its findings add to the literature by a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of EU maritime foreign and security policies across five cases: the EU’s Maritime Security Strategy and action plan; the EU’s two naval missions, Atalanta and Sophia; EU Arctic policies, and; EU policies towards the Maritime Labour Convention. Focusing on the aims, actors and mechanisms of integration in these cases, the book speaks to the three main debates in the literature on EU foreign policy, including whether it has a particular normative dimension that makes it different from foreign policy as it is conventionally understood; the extent to which policy-making in the domain has developed beyond intergovernmental cooperation and, interlinked; how EU foreign and security policy integration and its characteristics can be explained. In doing this, the book also addresses a fourth contemporary scholarly debate linked to if and how the EU is affected by crisis. By focusing on maritime security policies the book also adds to the international relations literature more broadly. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, students and practitioners interested in EU foreign and security policy, European and global maritime security issues, EU integration, EU crisis and international relations. Marianne Riddervold is an Associate Professor at Inland Norway University of applied sciences, a Senior fellow at UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies and a Guest Researcher at ARENA - Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: A Maritime Foreign and Security Power in the Making? (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 1-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-36 EU Maritime Foreign Policies Between Norms and Economic Interests: Piracy and Maritime Labour Standards (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 37-56 The EU’s Naval Mission Sophia: A Humanitarian Operation to Help Refugees in Distress at Sea? (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 57-76 A Maritime Global Commons Power in the Making? On the Characteristics of EU Policies Towards the High Seas: The Arctic and the Maritime Security Strategy (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 77-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-102 An Actor with Agency: The Influence of the Commission on EU Maritime Foreign and Security Policies (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 103-123 Beyond the Pillar Divide: The Administrative Functioning of EU Maritime Foreign and Security Policies (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 125-136 Front Matter ....Pages 137-141 EU Maritime Foreign and Security Policy Integration: Explaining the EU Maritime Security Strategy (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 143-164 Driven by Geopolitical Events: The Impact of the Ukraine Crisis on EU Maritime Foreign and Security Policies (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 165-176 Expertise and Circumvention: How the Commission Influences the EU’s Maritime Foreign and Security Policies (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 177-194 Why Not Fight Piracy Through NATO? Explaining the EU’s First Naval Mission: EU NAVFOR Atalanta (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 195-217 Conclusion. EU Maritime Foreign and Security Policies: Aims, Actors, and Mechanisms of Integration (Marianne Riddervold)....Pages 219-232 Back Matter ....Pages 233-240