EU-Nato cooperation reloaded
The impact of European strategic autonomy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12699990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters (0000-0001-7467-0136, Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 864-883 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Defence Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-2436 • E-ISSN: 1743-9698 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14702436.2025.2562975 |
| OpenAlex | W4414438685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
Renewed debates on European strategic autonomy and closer EU-NATO cooperation fall into a time of great power rivalry, a changing threat landscape, and growing complexity that require coordinated responses. External shocks such as Russia’s increasing aggression and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 as well as internal dynamics, including Brexit and Trump’s “America First” policy, have triggered both the EU’s quest for strategic autonomy with the introduction of its comprehensive defence package and closer EU-NATO cooperation. Yet, while these parallel developments have for long been seen as contradictory, partly because the emergence of strategic autonomy within the EU has initially been perceived with suspicion from both NATO and the US, this article argues that European strategic autonomy has in fact served as an enabler for enhanced security cooperation in Europe as it allows for a more equal partnership based on shared responsibilities
Annexation · Autonomy · Enabling · General partnership · Power (physics · Strategic partnership · European Union Policy and Governance · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy
Process-Tracing Methods
Institutionalism
Positioning member states in EU-Nato security cooperation
Hedging their bets? The case for a European pillar in Nato
Transatlantic cooperation in flux
Shaping institutional overlap
Responding to the global disorder
Strategic autonomy and EU-Nato cooperation
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Ukraine war and the emergence of the European commission as a geopolitical actor
European Strategic Autonomy
Illusions of Autonomy
EU Strategic Autonomy after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Double Trouble
Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors
Change and Continuity in the European Neighbourhood Policy
Putting path dependence in its place
As Open as Possible, as Autonomous as Necessary
Elastic Relations
Historical Institutionalism in International Relations
Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics
The Study of Critical Junctures
Understanding Process Tracing
The US perspective on Nato under Trump
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |