Sociotechnical Imaginaries of EU Defence: The Past and the Future in the European Defence Fund

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