The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies: Aims, Actors and Mechanisms of Integration

This book provides the first substantial treatment of the maritime foreign andsecurity policies of the European Union. Its findings add to the literaturebyacomparative, theoretically informed analysis of EU maritime foreign andsecurity policies across five cases: the EU's Maritime Security Strategy and action plan;the EU's two naval missions, Atalanta and Sophia;EU Arctic policies, and;EU policies towards the Maritime Labour Convention. Focusing on theaims, actors and mechanisms of integrationin these cases, the book speaks to thethree main debates in the literature on EU foreign policy, including whether ithas a particular normative dimension that makes it different from foreign policy as it is conventionally understood; the extent to which policy-making in the domainhas developed beyond intergovernmental cooperation and, interlinked; howEU foreign and security policyintegration and its characteristics can be explained. In doing this, the book alsoaddresses a fourthcontemporary scholarly debate linked to if and how the EU is affected by crisis. By focusing on maritime security policies the book also adds to the international relations literature more broadly.

This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, students and practitioners interested in EU foreign and security policy, European and global maritime security issues, EU integration, EU crisis andinternational relations.

Marianne Riddervold is an Associate Professor atInland Norway University of applied sciences, a Senior fellow at UC BerkeleyInstitute of European Studies and a Guest Researcher at ARENA - Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.