Europe deploys towards a civil-military strategy for CSDP
Why does Europe develop the military and civilian capabilities that it does? Why does it undertake the military and civilian operations that it does? And why in other cases does […]
Why does Europe develop the military and civilian capabilities that it does? Why does it undertake the military and civilian operations that it does? And why in other cases does […]
The number and lethality of conflicts has been declining significantly since the end of the Cold War, but five new armed conflicts still break out each year. While costly peace-making, […]
General Perruche identifies which elements would be required to craft a strategy for the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy, and why in the EU this exercise is particularly difficult. […]
On 23 May, the Ministers of Defence of the EU27 will assess the first outcome of the “Ghent Framework” for pooling & sharing of military capabilities. While some defence establishments […]
In September 2010, the European Council discussed for the first time the European Union’s (EU) strategic partnerships, a foreign policy concept that was until then unknown to most people – […]
Commentaries
This short blog entry reviews the EU’s development and implementation of its so-called ‘strategic partnerships’. It summarizes the main findings of Egmont Paper 45.
EU lunch meeting with Mr Jim Cloos, Deputy Director-General for General and Institutional Policy at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers. The EU’s strategic agenda for the coming […]
Programme: Session 1: Short-term Turbulence? The election of a new UK government represents that latest stage in the unfolding Brexit process. Even with negotiations on a Withdrawal Agreement and Political […]
A group of professionals to the Intensive Programme of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs coming from the European Neighborhood Policy Countries, Central Asia and the Western Balkan visited the […]
Africa Lunch Meeting with Senior Researcher Dr. Øystein H. Rolandsen from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). In October 2019 the USA and its allies withdrew a large share of […]