ESDP - att vara eller inte vara -Rationella förklaringar och ledarskapets betydelse för ESDP:s födelse i Köln 1999.

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At the EU summit in Cologne in 1999, a consensus was reached concerning the common foreign and security policy within the European Union. It was decided at the summit that the WEU (Western European Union) should be incorporated into the EU - whom would then be given military capability to act autonomously without the necessity of Nato involvement. This essay investigates the factors that made this agreement possible from a rational choice perspective, but also from the perspective of the power and influence on negotiations on behalf of various types of leadership present at the meeting. Many nations at the summit of Cologne where for the creation of a military force in the form of ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) within the Union, and many where against such a decision. However a consensus was reached and that is what this essay shall try to explain. The results shows that power and influence where leading factors in the reaching of an agreed consensus at Cologne on the issues. The impact of various leaderships cannot be neglected either of course, and it...