Strateški kompas za bezbednost i odbranu Evropske unije - platforma za globalno delovanje u okviru zajedničke bezbednosne i odbrambene politike?

Abstract

Within a theoretical framework of international relations and using selected scientific methods, such as content analysis, inductive, deductive, and comparative methods, this paper analyzes the content and reach of the Strategic Compass for Security and Defense of the European Union as a broader strategic platform through which the European Union, under continuous and complex security circumstances, achieved one of the key and long-pro-claimed ambitions, namely the essential strategic autonomy of its policies concerning security and defense and, subsequently, its position as an autonomous, indispensable security actor at the global level. The analysis conducted leads to the conclusion that, regardless of the circumstances of its preparation and adoption, the Strategic Compass definitely does not have the capacity to enable the European Union to act in this way, which, basically, represents a highly bureaucratized list of goals and objectives with a number of shortcomings, which has almost no new strategic value and limits the European Union in the geopolitical sense, verifying it as a regional security actor of secondary importance in relation to NATO.