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Institutional Inertia and Change: Explaining the Czech and Portuguese Engagement in European Defence Market Integration

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  • Tomáš Weiss
  • Sandra Fernandes
  • Miroslava Pisklová

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The Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO) and the European Defence Fund (EDF) constitute another attempt to consolidate the European defence market. In this article, we explain the different engagements of Czechia and Portugal in the two initiatives until 2021 through the evolution and reform of the domestic institutions governing their defence industrial policies. We trace how the institutions were established, how they contributed to the national position on PESCO and EDF and how the two countries' defence industries became involved. The article shows how the different institutionalisation of the defence sector allowed Portugal and its companies to participate more than their Czech counterparts. We contribute to historical institutionalist scholarship by evidencing the critical role of ideas in promoting and preventing policy change. We also offer an insight into the practice of European defence co‐operation and identify processes that challenge further integration.

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  • Tomáš Weiss & Sandra Fernandes & Miroslava Pisklová, 2024. "Institutional Inertia and Change: Explaining the Czech and Portuguese Engagement in European Defence Market Integration," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(3), pages 784-800, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:62:y:2024:i:3:p:784-800
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13533
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