ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at specifically at the role played by domestic preferences and relative bargaining power during the negotiations for the defence procurement directive. It provides the importance of structural factors, European Union (EU) institutions, ideational elements, national interests and bargaining power during the negotiations for the procurement directive. The chapter seeks to better understand how, if at all, EU institutions influenced the outcome of negotiations for the procurement directive. It describes the LI model to competing theoretical approaches, especially the judicial politics approach advanced by Blauberger and Weiss. The chapter also looks at how member states and firms approached the proposal for a defence procurement directive, and the second section then zooming in on how these preferences were advanced by governments during the bargaining phase. It deals with some general observations about the explanatory relevance of the case of the defence procurement directive. The chapter examines the various domestic preferences that emerged prior to the adoption of the defence procurement directive.
