Lamb, G (2023) Reluctant partnership? British and EU perspectives on the EU's common foreign and security policy [CFSP] 2010 - 2016 and their implications post-Brexit. Doctoral thesis, Liverpool John Moores University.

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Abstract

It is a commonly held assumption in the academic literature that the security and defence partnership between the UK and the EU, historically, was a bad one. Furthermore, at present, there exists no post-Brexit agreement between the UK and the EU on security and defence. It appears to be the current UK government’s view that a post-Brexit partnership with the EU is not needed and that the UK’s security and defence interests can be better served by forming alliances elsewhere. By analysing the relationship between the UK and the EU in security and defence in years leading up to Brexit, this thesis explores whether this commonly held assumption about the UK and EU’s partnership is true or whether in fact the partnership was much more valuable. In turn, this thesis will also explore whether a post-Brexit security and defence partnership is worth pursuing and, if so, what that partnership could look like. This thesis hopes to shed new light on the UK and EU’s past security and defence relationship to help better inform any future negotiations on any post-Brexit security and defence partnership.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	CSDP; EU; CFSP; security; defence; Brexit; David Cameron; Libya; Ukraine; Post-Brexit Partnership; Common Security and Defence Poilcy; Common Foreign and Security Policy
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Law
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	28 Apr 2023 11:44
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2023 11:44
DOI or ID number:	10.24377/LJMU.t.00019405
Supervisors:	Panara, C and Li, R
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19405

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