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The European Defense Sector and EU Integration
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By Jorge Silvia Paulo
This paper reviews the history of the European integration process, with a focus on the political, economic and legal aspects relevant to security. First, it examines the specific aspects of the defense sector to explain why governments prefer cooperation to integration. The subsequent section looks normatively to the future, offering speculation about three possible scenarios and their viability within the defense sector in five years time, considering the costs and benefits of integration for the EU. It concludes that the EU lacks power to influence world affairs due to a lack of capabilities and an absence of the will to obtain and make use of them.