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European Security Architecture: Institutional Challenges and Implications for Bulgaria

This training course led by Dr. Anne Deighton at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy discusses the role of institutions in shaping European security, with a focus on NATO, EU, OSCE, and CoE. Key topics include the challenge of "ad hocery," the interplay between states and institutions, and the influence of non-state actors. The course explores how institutions can compete, overlap, and impact domestic policies in Bulgaria and beyond. It provides insights into the complexities of multilateral relations and the strategic importance of robust institutional frameworks.

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European Security Architecture: Institutional Challenges and Implications for Bulgaria

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  1. Security policy training courseSofia, Bulgaria

  2. Dr Anne Deighton Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Oxford University

  3. European security architecture: an overview • Do institutions matter? • What is the challenge of ‘ad hocery’

  4. Institutions, especially EU, NATO, OSCE, CoE. Essentially European in character, in a world of global and subregional institutions • States • Non-state actors • Ideas and values

  5. The institutional web or architecture • Institutions are conservative: slow, path-dependent, predictable, rule-bound (whether they are international or state-based) • When they work, they deliver institutional security…

  6. States and Institutions • States shape institutions, but are also shaped by institutions • How and why the size of the state matters: differences between eg NATO and the EU

  7. Non-governmental organisations • Brussels the lobbying centre of Europe • Peak group influence • Charities

  8. Ideas and values • Multi-lateralism • Assumptions • Value rules…joining the club

  9. Characteristics of European institutional architecture

  10. Institutions can compete and overlap…and are shaped by other institutions • Institutions can be hierarchical

  11. Institutions can be functionally autonomous • Institutions can die or be shut down (WEU)

  12. The challenge of ‘ad hocery’ • Within an institution: too many special exceptions to institutional rules

  13. The challenge of ‘ad hocery’ • ‘the mission determines the coalition’ • Defection by states if institution fails to be attractive. Alternative poles of attraction

  14. Significance for Bulgaria? • Institutions are shaping domestic policies • Condemned to succeed in a multilateral world

  15. Significance for Bulgaria • Prioritising institutions • Playing the institutional game. Brussels - multi-dimensional chess. Languages. • Playing the state-partner game

  16. Mutual control for mutual progress Institutional cooperation Supranational: functional/systemic Upgrading the common interest Integration: what for? • Hard headed politics with a fuzzy vision

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