Germany and a Europe of Defence: Global Responsibility Requires the End of Small-state Particularism

The question of whether Europe should develop its own defence capabilities has acquired a new urgency. Failing states and civil wars in Europe's neighbourhood cyber attacks Russia jihadists - these are only a few of the growing threats to peace and freedom. In the face of that both NATO Europe and EU Europe are hampered by a kind of small-state particularism. We Europeans urgently need more military integration as well as islands of functional cooperation. Individual examples of this have long been with us. They have gradually been amalgamating and forming a mainland. But at national leve l resistance remains stubborn even in Germany and France. In this book Hans-Peter Bartels sets out his vision of how the project of a European army may be realised.