Explaining the emergence of ESDP: from amorphous networks to politico-epistemic communities?

In this paper I try to locate the geopolitical milieu in which ideas are generated and flourish. In order to achieve this I will provide a framework which locates ESDP actors who act as the ‘carriers’ of the EU strategic culture. The chapter on the theory of strategic culture demonstrates that each ‘political community’ has its own strategic culture. Based on this assumption I analyse three different models which are strongly related to the idea of ‘community-like’ driven groups of policy such as security communities, politico-epistemic communities and policy networks.