Trial lecture
Place: Gamle festsal, Urbygningen
Time: 10:15 - 11:00
Title: "Integration or pooling of sovereignty? Explaining European security and defence commitments"
Public Defense
Place: Gamle Festsal, Urbygningen
Time: 13:15 - 16:00
Adjudication committee
- Associate Professor Lisbeth Aggestam, University of Gothenburg
- Professor, Richard Whitman, University of Kent
- Professor Janne Haaland Matlary, University of Oslo
Chair of defence
Senior Lecturer Øivind Bratberg, University of Oslo
Supervisors
- Research Professor Helene Sjursen, University of Oslo
- Associate Professor Karin Dokken, University of Oslo
Press Release
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Abstract
There is a gap in the literature in international relations and European integration with respect to why states establish cooperative formats involving integrative commitments. In this thesis, I address this gap by providing a distinction between cooperative and integrative commitments and further specifying criteria that can be used to identify integration between states. I apply these criteria to analyses of three cases of interstate cooperation where European states have established cooperation involving integrative commitments. The specification of criteria for integration between states in the field of security and defence is a novel contribution to international relations and European integration literature. Furthermore, the thesis findings suggest we need to reconsider arguments in the literature regarding what kinds of commitments states make in the field of security and defence. Hence, the impossibility of security and defence integration between states in Europe is rebuked.
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