ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on European security policy to question which institution, the European Union (EU) or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), can provide the best security environment for Europe. The Dependency School of Core and Periphery has traditionally questioned the relations between the developed and the developing world. The core of European security equates to the formulation of defence policy by the domestic institutions and organizations of states of the EU. Such domestic actions at the core have direct impact on the adoption of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the launching of the Common European Security and Defence Policy that combined equate to the periphery of a single European security or its implementation of defence policy as security policy. The development of the institutions to ensure a genuine foreign and security policy for a hybrid body like the EU is always going to be a slow and incremental process.
