Within the discipline of international relations, and through the application of relevant scientific methods, such as content analysis, including inductive, deductive, and synthetic methods, this paper examines the concept of European strategic security autonomy, its substance, scope, and limitations. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the functional verification of European strategic autonomy, the security "maturation" of Europe, and ultimately the assumption of responsibility for its own security, rest upon the fulfilment of several fundamental prerequisites which, for the purpose of clearer conceptual understanding, may be broadly grouped into three categories: political or political and institutional, organizational and functional, and material or resource-based prerequisites. One of the conclusions that emerges from the analysis is that European strategic security autonomy remains in an early stage of development due to the non-fulfilment of these prerequisites. Moreover, under present circumstances, Europe embodied in the institutional, legal, and political structures of the European Union can hardly be identified as an autonomous actor capable and sufficiently capacitated to assume responsibility for its own security and that of its immediate neighborhood.
Boris Tučić (Wed,) studied this question.