{"id":2472,"date":"2026-03-03T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:43:55","slug":"safe-is-not-so-safe-the-limits-of-uk-eu-defence-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/2026\/safe-is-not-so-safe-the-limits-of-uk-eu-defence-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFE is not so Safe: The Limits of UK\u2013EU Defence Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/SAFE-768x503.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        SAFE is not so Safe: The Limits of UK\u2013EU Defence Cooperation\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                    \n\n<p>Liam Nohr<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the Brexit vote in 2016 the defence relationship between the UK and the EU has since been relatively unfettered. This strength can largely be attributed to the increasing coordination through NATO institutions and the establishment of the Coalition of the Willing, creating functional cooperation without deepening policy integration between the UK and the EU. Yet this relationship has clear limits. As EU defence policy focuses inward on industry and procurement, the effects of Brexit now have immediate impacts on European capacity building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the full policy brief, click the download button below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/03\/SAFE-is-not-so-Safe-The-Limits-of-UK\u2013EU-Defence-Cooperation.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Brexit, the defence relationship between the UK and the EU has been relatively unaffected. Yet this relationship has clear limits. As EU defence policy focuses inward on industry and procurement, Brexit&#8217;s effects now have immediate impacts on European capacity building. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[146,84,103,1,37],"tags":[198,128,106,274,250,271,109,35,270,42,273,272],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-spending","category-european-security","category-european-union","category-news","category-policy-brief","tag-canada","tag-eu","tag-european-security","tag-finances","tag-funding","tag-industry","tag-nato","tag-policy-brief","tag-procurement","tag-russia","tag-safe","tag-uk"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}