Defense Integration In The European Union: Process And Reflection

Nowadays, the reasons why the EU has become the recognized pioneer andmodel of regional integration is not only because of its early start and its rapid pace ofevolution, but also because of the deep extent of its integration. And the topic of highpolitics like defense is just one of the important indicators on examining theevolutional degree of integration of EU. After the end of the Cold War, the EU whointents to play an autonomous and strong role in the international arena activelypromotes the concepts and practices of the integration of defense with help of theuseful opportunity of the change on the regional security situation and using theframework of the mechanism like "Common Foreign and Security Policy"(CFSP) toexpand the function of "common defense".So far, the rising EU defense integration has been achieved encouraging initialresults. It has not only initially formed the security and defense strategy which isinformative clear and operational, but also basically materialized the harmonizationand coordination on the aspect of the plan and command of united defense. Even sothe EU defense integration has encountered many challenges both inside and outside.It includes the sensitive characteristics of the topic defense itself, the disputes oftraditional defense of interests between the members, the rigid operating mechanism,the lack of material base and also the uncertainty of position of United States in policy,the weakening of macro-safety incentives and so on. Controversy and development ofschool integration just as we explore the true and whole appearance of this subject inthe paper provides a relatively comprehensive theory Perspective. In addition, theability to resolve the common issues reflected by the EU defense integration and theunbind of the ban on arms sales to China of EU will be an important reality factor inthe future test of China-EU strategic partnership relations.