This book is a systematic effort to empirically approach the democratic deficit of CSDP, to understand its social construction and propose ways to remedy it.

Evangelos Fanoulis is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Security Studies (C4SS), Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic. He was previously Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester and Fellow at the University of Essex, UK.

Introduction Part I: The Democratic Quality of EU Security and Defence: Empirical Assessment 1. Framing and contextualising the democratic legitimacy of CSDP 2. A qualitative investigation of CSDP's legitimacy Part II: The Democratic Deficit of CSDP: Social Construction 3. Practices of Governance: Policy Design 4. Practices of Governance: Public Dissemination Part III: From CSDP's Democratic Deficit to a More Integrated EU Polity 5. Practices of freedom: Citizen participation in CSDP governance 6. Conclusion: Democratisation of CSDP and European Integration