NATO and EU in Military Crisis Management: Complementarity or Rivalry?

Vukasović, Dejana M. and Stančić, Višnja (2017) NATO and EU in Military Crisis Management: Complementarity or Rivalry? In: Crisis Management Days. University of Applied Sciences, Velika Gorica, pp. 144-153. ISBN 978-953-7716-77-6

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Abstract

In this article the authors explore the relationship between EU and NATO as two key actors of the European security architecture. What is the nature of this relationship and what are the implications of this relationship for the security environment? Is this relationship characterized by complementarity or rivalry? In order to answer those questions the authors will rely on the concept of institutional isomorphism as a helpful analytical tool that can illuminate the dynamics of the relation between NATO and the Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU (CSDP). In this paper the focus will be first on the basics of sociological institutionalism, which is based on similarity and homogenization of organizational fields that are part of the same organizational space and then the authors will explain the CSDP-NATO relationship by using the concept of isomorphism. The authors conclude that, at first, there was organizational similarity between CSDP and NATO, but with time this relation led to the competition and overlapping between two organizations. Therefore the evolution of the CSDP-NATO relation from cooperation to rivalry has consequences for the security environment and efficiency of the military crisis management.

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