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Common Security and Defense Policy of the European Union (EU CSDP) has been the subject of numerous and diverse publications. However, they are largely descriptive rather than analytic, focusing on e.g. highlighting the origin of the above mentioned issue, its main stages, institutions or legal grounds. Too little attention is paid to, among others, such matters as: an attempt to systematize the constitutive elements of CSDP, depiction of the causes of problems occurring in this sector of integration, their classification or the presentation of consequences of such a state of things. These issues are considered in the present essay.