Category: Books

• Yearbook of European Security 2022

  Dec 21

  Abstract The 2022 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2021 that were significant for European security. The book charts major developments in the EU’s external action… more ›

• Yearbook of European Security, 2021

  Oct 11

  Abstract The 2021 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2020 that were significant for European security and it charts major developments in the EU’s external action… more ›

• Yearbook of European Security 2020

  Dec 10

  Abstract The 2020 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2019 that were significant for European security and it charts major developments in the EU’s external action… more ›

• CSDP in 2020: The EU’s Legacy and Ambition in Security and Defence

  Mar 31

  The past 20 years of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) have taught us more about the EU as an international actor. While the Union has not entirely lived up… more ›

• Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union: The State, the Firm and Europe

  Dec 11

  This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice. Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are… more ›

• Yearbook of European Security 2019

  Jul 18

  Abstract The 2019 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2018 that were significant for European security and charts major developments in the EU’s external action and… more ›

• Yearbook of European Security 2018

  Jun 26

  Abstract The EUISS Yearbook of European Security (YES) 2018 is the Institute’s annual publication compiling key information and data related to the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and… more ›

• After the EU Global Strategy: Security and Defence – Consulting the Experts

  Aug 28

  Following the publication of the EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS) in June, attention has now turned to how the strategy can concretely be implemented. A  Security… more ›

• The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar: Legitimacy and Operationalization

  Nov 16

  As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed. This uncovers opportunities and challenges… more ›

• The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives

  May 18

  When one looks at the present state of the CSDP, “one cannot help but look on with disenchantment”, states Pierre Vimont in his foreword to this collective Egmont Paper, edited… more ›

• The State of Defence in Europe: State of Emergency?

  Nov 18

  When a doctor calls for a thorough examination of the state of a patient’s health, he hopes that everything will turn out to be alright, but it really means that… more ›