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The Third Option The Emancipation of European Defense, 1989 - 2000
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Charles G. Cogan
Foreword by Lawrence S. Kaplan
Book Code: C6948
ISBN: 0-275-96948-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96948-6
200 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2001
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The Third Option does a fine job covering the important events of the 1990s.
    —www.apsanet.org     June 2003
  • Charles G. Cogan has provided a comprehensive analysis of the efforts to create a European defense entity capable of acting independently of the United States.
    —Parameters     Winter 2003-03
  • The best account so far of the European Union's push for an autonomous defense capability.
    —Foreign Affairs     March/April 2002
  • Endorsement From Samuel P. Huntington
    Albert J. Weatherhead III
    University Professor
    Harvard University:     The Third Option is a meticulous, comprehensive, clearly and elegantly written account and analysis of the efforts, led by France, in the 1990s to create a European defense entity capable of acting independently of the United States. Dr. Cogan cogently highlights the problems of NATO and the European Union becoming two separate and potentially competing defense organizations in Europe. His study is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand European defense issues and transatlantic security relations.
  • Endorsement From Barry R. Posen
    Professor of Political Science
    Security Studies Program, MIT:     The Third Option chronicles the last decade's complex transatlantic and intra-european military diplomacy, as the United States and Europe wrestled over the future strategic division of labor between NATO and the European Union. Cogan's past scholarship on French-American relations suffuses the work with a subtle understanding of the historical roots of current issues. The book suggests that there are inevitable contradictions between an improvement in the EU's military capacity and the continuation of a NATO dominated politically and militarily by the United States. For those who wish to manage, or simply to understand, the inevitable transatlantic tensions of the coming years, this book will prove an essential resource.
Description: It was logical to expect that the European Economic and Monetary Union would lead ineluctably to an autonomous European defense; the very size of the European Union seems to demand it. The EU eventually will reach the point where its economic and demographic weight will far exceed that of the United States. Can it not be expected too that the EU will seek to make this weight felt internationally? Cogan tracks the halting creation of an independent European military structure, a third way between national armies and ATO, since the Iron Curtain's fall. With the Cold War's end and subsequent western engagements in Central and Eastern Europe, it is no longer a question of whether NATO and the EU compare; they now must relate. They have to coordinate their planning and force postures so as to avoid duplication of resources and efforts. Although NATO's integrated command structure theoretically was an anomaly with the end of the Cold War, it nevertheless turned out to be the case in Bosnia, and later Kosovo, that nothing was possible until the Americans intervened. The virtue of integrated command -- American participation and know-how -- was once again seen as crucially important, despite the increasingly anachronistic deficit of sovereignty for Western Europe in defense matters. In the long run, Europe's economic power must be balanced by its military and diplomatic might.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Change in the Nature of NATO (November 1989 - July 1990)
  • From the Gulf War to the New Strategic Concept (July 1990 - December 1991)
  • From the Bosnian War to France's Move Towards NATO (1992 - December 1995)
  • From the AFSOUTH Imbroglio to the Madrid Summit (1996 - July 1997)
  • The Turn Towards Autonomy (St. Malo to Kosovo to Cologne)
  • The European Union Becomes a Defense Organization (July 1999 - December 2000)
  • Epilogue
  • Annex
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001032910
LCC Class: UA646
Dewey Class: 355
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