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This paper aims at analyzing the emergence of European militaries capabilities--understood as a tool incorporated in a wider security continuum -- as the expansion of European bureaucratic struggles towards new arenas. Drawing on sociological work in EU studies and in International Relations, it presents an account of the EU-UN cooperation as a central locus enabling the construction of CSDP. The argument is articulated through a dual-dynamic of internationalization and autonomization, and on the role-played by the former High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana, and his staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The West, and especially Europe, often understands globalization as a new process that will eventually challenge the domination of traditional politics. This paper will attempt to question the idea of a gradual disappearance of war in human affairs, using Raymond Aron s thoughts on the subject. In the first part we will see how the concepts of "procès" (process) and "drame" (drama) provide a method to analyze historical developments. Then, in a second part, we will apply such concepts to three general causes of conflict (namely passions, economic interests and principles) to show that pacifistic hopes must be refrained. Even the pacification in Europe does not mean an end of war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to evaluate the contributions of the theoretical researches of the "new political economy" and the "international political economy" in the field of European integration. The former starts from the principle of individual rationality assuming as exogenous the identities and the preferences of agents; the latter analyses the institutional and collective dynamics, in particular the interstate conflicts and compromises or the constructivist power of institutions over the identities and preferences of the agents. The article shows why and how the two political economics must be taken together, in particular to analyze three topics: the institutional products; the organization of powers; the fiscal and social competition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]