The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy

Foreword.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Section I: Theorizing European Non-Civilian R&D.- Chapter 2 Expanding EU Research Policy as a Mirror Image of the Deepening of the EU and the Evolution of its Governance.- Chapter 3 The Origins of the European Defense Research Program.- Chapter 4 Strong EU vs. Determinant National Preferences.- Section II: The Economics of Arms Production and R&D Collaboration.- Chapter 5 The Economics of European Defense Industrial Policy.- Chapter 6 The Economic Imperative of Europeanizing Defense Innovation.- Chapter 7 The Arms Economy.- Section III: The Emergence of European Non-Civilian R&D.- Chapter 8 Europe's Defense Armaments Collaborative "Model".- Chapter 9 European Armaments Collaboration.- Chapter 10 The European Commission and Defense in the 1990s.- Chapter 11 The Making of the Preparatory Action for Security Research and Beyond.- Chapter 12 The Emergence of the European Defense Research Program.- Section IV: Actors in EU Non-Civilian R&D.- Chapter 13 The Role of the European Commission: Defense Industry Relationship in the Emergence of EDRP .- Chapter 14 Collaborative Networks in the European Security Research Program.- Chapter 15 The European Parliament's Agenda on Space.- Chapter 16 The EDA, the Commission, and EU Military Research.- Section V: Other Themes.- Chapter 17 NATO and Transatlantic Relations in Defense R&D.- Chapter 18 Legal Aspects of EU Defense Policy.- Chapter 19 The Evolving Role of the EU in Space-Related Security and Military Research.- Chapter 20 Militarizing Border Security in EU Research Programs.- Chapter 21 The Security Dimension in Non-Security FP7 Themes.- Chapter 22 Conclusions.

Nikolaos Karampekios obtained his PhD in EU technology policy jointly from the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens. Currently, he is conducting postdoctoral research on the innovation potential of the Swiss security industry at the Centre for Security Economics and Technology (C SET), University of St. Gallen, funded by a Swiss confederation scholarship. His research interests include security research and industrial policy, innovation policy, and the relationship between defence and security. His work has appeared in (indicatively) Géopolitiques et Géostratégies Régionales, Military Power Review, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift, and Foreign Affairs (Greek edition). In 2015, he co-edited a book on the European Defence Agency (Roultedge Press). Since 2014, he is employed as a researcher-analyst at the Greek National Documentation Center engaged in (co)-authoring the bi-annualreport of the national research, technology and innovation level, performing bibliometric analyses as well as other R&D-metrics (business demographics, tax incentives, etc.).

Iraklis Oikonomou holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth and has conducted post-doctoral research at Ghent University and Sussex University, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. His main research interests are European integration theory, the political economy of EU armaments policy, and EU space policy militarisation. His work has appeared in, among others, Wissenschaft & Frieden, Space Policy, Rethinking Marxism, Monthly Review, Studia Diplomatica, Agora without Frontiers, The Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs, and Intelligence and National Security. He is co-editor (with N. Karampekios) of the volume Arming Europe? The European Defence Agency (Routledge, 2015) and (with H. Golemis) of the volume Poulantzas Today (Nissos, 2012; in Greek). He has