Budućnost Zajedničke sigurnosne i obrambene politike EU (ZSOP)

Zajednička sigurnosno-obrambena politika Europske unije, ili kraće ZSOP (eng. Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP), nastala je 1999 (tada pod nazivom ESDP, eng. European Security and Defence Policy) kao pokušaj ostvarivanja određenog stupnja integracije između sigurnosnih i obrambenih sustava država članica. Sam ZSOP ključni je dio Zajedničke vanjske i sigurnosne politike (ZVSP) Unije kroz čiji okvir uspostavlja, regulira i utječe na sve politike koje Unija projicira u svoje susjedstvo, ali također izgrađuje, uvezuje i koordinira sigurnosne sustave njezinih članica. ZSOP se sastoji od brojnih institucija koje su, kao i sama politika, doživljavale sustavne izmjene od samog osnutka do njihovog današnjeg stanja. Njegova rastuća uloga u sigurnosti Europe pozicionira ga na istu pozornicu s „velikim igračima“ svjetske sigurnosti poput NATO-a, s kojim je ZSOP već uspostavio radne i suradničke odnose kroz razne sporazume, no dinamika njegove transformacije nalaže novo definiranje odnosa između ovih sigurnosnih aktera. Može li se ZSOP afirmirati kao nositelj europske sigurnosti i istovremeno ne narušavati savezničke odnose sa NATO-om pitanje je čiji odgovor utječe na razvoj europske sigurnosne arhitekture u 21. stoljeću.The Common Security and Defence Policy, or CSDP for short, is a policy of the European Union. It started in the 1999. As an effort to achieve a certain level of integration among the defence and security systems of the Union member states. The CSDP is in itself a part of a bigger policy named Common Foreign and Security Policy or CFSP, which regulates and affects all the policies outwardly projected by the Union, but also builds and coordinates the policies of its member states to a certain degree. The CSDP is composed of a number of institutions which, like the policies itself, have been subjugated to systemic changes and transformations in the time between their creation and their role today. The ever-increasing role of the CSDP regarding the security of Europe, is placing the CSDP on the same level as the world security subjects like NATO, with which the CSDP has already formed cooperative and friendly relations, the CSDP dynamic transformation calls for a revision of relation between these two security actors. Can the CSDP establish itself as the carrier of the European security and at the same time keep its good and cooperative relations with NATO, is a question whose answer will result in the further development of the European security framework of the 21st Century