| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| If America wants strong European allies, let them find their own path |
| Paul Zajac
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| 发表日期 | 2017-12-19
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | European defense is on the move. Over the summer, the European Commission announced a modest European defense fund to support both defense research and development as well as initial steps in capability developments. At the same time, a small chain of command has been set up in Brussels to run E.U. military training missions in fragile states. Last week, the European Union Council inaugurated a new type of defense cooperation among European countries, dubbed the Permanent Structured Cooperation. It aims at fostering cooperation on concrete capability projects and is supported by increased coordination on defense planning among E.U. member states. Taken separately, each of these steps is modest, but they all point in the right direction — toward more “strategic autonomy,” a goal defined in the last E.U. Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy.
These steps have been received with mixed feelings in Washington. While some have expressed skepticism, others have raised objections that these moves could drain resources away from NATO. In other words, E.U. defense cooperation is seen by Americans as either insignificant or problematic. Both attitudes do not help define a meaningful U.S. response to these efforts, and both stand at odds with the stated American interest that European allies should bear their fair share of the burden of their security.
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| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Europe and Eurasia
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| 标签 | America
; European Union (EU)
; NATO
; trans-atlantic
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/if-america-wants-strong-european-allies-let-them-find-their-own-path/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/263369
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