Researching European Security Integration

This book provides new and established researchers with innovative methodologies and research strategies to explore European security integration from a different perspective, challenging traditional theoretical interpretations. It takes a step back from well-established theoretical approaches to the European Union’s (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) to ask more fundamental questions about the core assumptions underpinning research on European security integration. It supports methodological innovations with an analysis of the most significant empirical problems of European security governance, including the war in Ukraine or the role of Russia in European security. In the last chapter, the author offers ideas for new pedagogical approaches to teaching European Studies.

Kamil Zwolski is Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Southampton and Jean Monnet Chair of European Security Governance. He is also a National Teaching Fellow (2022) and Senior Fellow of Advance HE. Dr Zwolski is a leading European expert on the theory and practice of European security, including European security governance, Europe-Russia relations and the role of the EU/NATO in European security. Dr Zwolski’s previous book, European Security in Integration Theory (2018), examines federalism and functionalism - two fundamentals, yet largely forgotten, theories of international integration, in the context of the war in Ukraine and contemporary European security order.