Download or read book Constrained Balancing: The EU's Security Policy written by D. Peters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of the EU's autonomous security policy in 1999 ended ten years of political conflict. In this book, the policies of Britain and Germany are analyzed as those of 'constrained balancing': balancing US post-Cold War supremacy with the constraints of established security institutions.