The creation of the EU's autonomous security policy in 1999 ended ten years of political conflict. In this book, the policies of Britain and Germany are analyzed as those of 'constrained balancing': balancing US post-Cold War supremacy with the constraints of established security institutions.

PART I: FRAMEWORK Introduction Structure and Policy: A Framework for Analysis A Guide for Analysis PART II: ANALYSIS Britain and Germany at the End of the Cold War From the End of Bipolarity to the Petersberg Declaration (1990-92) From Petersberg to Amsterdam (1992-97) From Amsterdam to Cologne (1997-99) PART III: CONCLUSION Summarizing, Deconstructing, Reconsidering the Results Appendix

DIRK PETERS is a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany. He previously held positions at the Universities of Tübingen and Mainz and has published on the EU's foreign and security policy and on foreign policy analysis.