Framing the EU Global Strategy

The EU's foreign, security and defence policy has been a desolate space in the last few years in terms of innovation and development, as well as being bereft of purpose, vision and unity. The two recent and bright exceptions are the EU Global Strategy (EUGS), published in June 2017, and more recently the activation of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the field of defence in December 2017. Framing the EU Global Strategy is a revealing, elegant and pleasant account of why, how and when the EUGS was conceived, drafted and accepted by the EU and its member states, written by the EUGS's main author Nathalie Tocci. Tocci was invited by Federica Mogherini, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to compile the EUGS. Despite possibly being considered a ‘foreign element’ in EU institutional terms and perhaps not being trusted by resident Eurocrats, Tocci succeeded—under Mogherini's aegis—in drafting a policy paper accepted by the EU and all its members in toto. More importantly, though, Tocci set an agenda which should guide the EU's foreign and security policy for many years to come

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