Researching European Security Integration

This book offers inspiration to new and established researchers of European security integration, who are in search of innovative and interesting strategies to ask research questions and explore this fascinating topic from new angles. The topic of European security integration is well established, with countless books and academic journal articles (even whole journals!) devoted to studying the latest empirical developments and uncovering new theoretical dimensions in the European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). This book takes a step back from these fascinating discussions in order to ask more fundamental questions about some core assumptions underpinning research on European security integration. The book illustrates these methodological innovations with some 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 book offers ideas for the innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching European Studies.