This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution.

Foreword, Hilmar Linnenkamp Introduction, Nikolaos Karampekios & Iraklis Oikonomou PART I: Theorising the European Defence Agency 1. Institutionalist Approaches to Agency Establishment, Helena Ekelund 2. The EDA and the discursive construction of European defence and security, André Barrinha 3. Brothers in Arms? The European Arms Industry and the Making of the EDA, Iraklis Oikonomou PART II: The European Defence Agency in Action 4. EU Military Capability Development and the European Defence Agency: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, Alistair J.K. Shepherd 5. The European Defence Agency and Armaments Collaboration, Katia Vlachos-Dengler 6. The European Defence Agency and the Field of Research and Technology, Anja Dahlmann, Marcel Dickow and Léa Tisserant 7. The EDA and the Integration of the European Defence Market, Aris Georgopoulos PART III: The European Defence Agency, the Nation-state and Beyond 8. France, the UK and the European Defence Agency, Jocelyn Mawdsley 9. Germany's limited leadership in the EDA: international and domestic constraints on defence cooperation, Tom Dyson 10. Organizations at war: The EDA, NATO and the European Commission, Marc R. DeVore PART IV: Broadening of the EU Armaments Policy Agenda 11. The EDA and military capability development: making Pooling and Sharing Work, Laura Chappell and Petar Petrov 12. The EDA and the Development of a European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, Marie-Louise Chagnaud, Christian Mölling and Torben Schütz 13. The EDA and Defence Offsets: Tailing after the Commission, Peter Platzgummer 14. The European Defence Agency's Inroads into Space, Frank Slijper Conclusion, Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou

Nikolaos Karampekios is a research fellow at the Centre for Security Economics and Technology - University of St. Gallen and holds a PhD in Technology Policy from the National Technical University of Athens.

Iraklis Oikonomou is a political scientist and holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth.