Das Governance-System der GSVP

A “second wave” of theoretically informed research on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) indicates that those administrative EU-bodies, that were created to support decision-making and implementation in the intergovernmental field of CSDP, perpetually exceed their formal tasks and manage to profoundly shape the policy field. This book looks into whether such phenomena can also be observed with regard to the – so far widely unexplored - agencies EU Satellite Centre (EUSC) and European Defence Agency (EDA), using qualitative methods to trace potential processes of socialization and autonomisation. Thus, this book contributes to uncovering of the factual functioning of the CSDP governance-system as well as to the advancement of the theoretically informed debate on CSDP.