In this article we investigate how a particular vision of the future of EU defence has embedded itself into different arenas of EU politics over decades, and is currently gaining material expression in the European Defence Fund (EDF). Through an historiographic approach, we traced the development of a particular narrative on security, innovation, research, and economic growth based on fears of technology gaps and dependence on the US, and a belief in the potential of military R&D to produce civilian benefits. We provide an alternative reading of the emergence of the EDF by drawing on literature within Science and Technology Studies, in particular the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries, to highlight wider socio-political dimensions of defence technologies and expand debates on EU defence.

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欧盟国防的社会技术想象：欧洲国防基金的过去和未来

在本文中，我们调查了几十年来欧盟国防未来的特定愿景如何融入欧盟政治的不同领域，目前正在欧洲国防基金 (EDF) 中获得实质性表达。通过历史学方法，我们基于对技术差距和对美国的依赖的担忧，以及对军事研发产生民用利益的潜力的信念，追踪了关于安全、创新、研究和经济增长的特定叙述的发展。我们通过借鉴科学和技术研究领域的文献，特别是社会技术想象的概念，提供了对 EDF 出现的另一种解读，以突出国防技术的更广泛的社会政治维度，并扩大关于欧盟国防的辩论。