Poltorakov, A. Yu. Strategy of the Outdoor Security of Ireland: Political and Economical Contexts

Abstract: Irish neutrality practically does not have the famous ‘international guarantees’. However, this country has always spent less than other European neutrals on its military (about 1.3% of GDP at the present). This is due to a quite ‘safe’ geopolitical location of the ‘green island’, far from the main ‘frontal lines’. This is why we can agree with the researches who suppose that Ireland position was strategically and thoroughly considered. First, independence was the mean of self-protection, later it became the mean of development. Respectively, one of the factors of prejudice of Irish population towards European political and economical integration was the perspectives of non-participation of Ireland in military aspect of the external policy and security policy of the EC

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