Tag: European Union

• Modernising NATO’s Defence Infrastructure with EU Funds

  Mar 18

  A quietly important element of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan (RAP), agreed at the 2014 Wales Summit, is the Alliance’s need ‘to reinforce its eastern Allies through preparation of national infrastructure,… more ›

• Europe’s Strategy Strained as Libya Veers Toward Civil War

  Nov 4

  Without a lasting deal on a national unity government, militias rallying around the rival factions vying for control of Libya could eventually spark a civil war. The Tobruk-based House of… more ›

• Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures

  Oct 27

  Focusing on the support of non-CSDP policies for CSDP measures, both in the field of crisis management and defence, this study submits that CSDP cannot effectively contribute to EU external… more ›

• ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

  Jul 22

  Based on extensive empirical work by a cross-European group of researchers, this book assesses the impact of the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on the national foreign… 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 Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Parliamentary Groups

  Mar 18

  The political groups of the European Parliament (EP) play a diplomatic role in terms of the EP’s legislative powers, their rhetorical role in European Union (EU) foreign policy, and through… more ›

• The European Commission and the European Defence Agency: A Case of Rivalry?

  Oct 24

  This article analyzes relations between the European Commission and the European Defence Agency (EDA) as they relate to European defence-industrial co-operation. To undertake the analysis, the article departs from a… more ›

• Autonomy without Autarky: An EU ‘Roadmap’ for Security of Supply

  Oct 17

  The disruption of the defence supply chain and the inability to replace or reproduce equipment: a nightmarish prospect for any military planner. To allay such fears, states have, whenever possible,… more ›

• The Three Effects of Dual-Use: Firms, Capabilities and Governance

  Jul 4

  It is easy to overlook the fact that many of the products and technologies we use on a daily basis – and now take for granted – have their origins… more ›

• The European Investment Bank could help meet some of the challenges facing Europe’s struggling defence industry

  Jul 4

  European countries face significant challenges in funding defence research and development programmes. Among the most important are declining defence budgets, fierce international competition, and the increasingly expensive nature of high-end… more ›

• Relations with the Rest of the World: From Chaos to Consolidation?

  Jul 3

  Our 2012 review painted a picture of an EU pulled between a seemingly inexorable series of internal crises, on the one hand, and myriad external demands, on the other (Hadfield… more ›

• The Juncker Commission and Europe’s Defence

  Jun 1

  The decision by the incoming President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, to merge the internal market and industry portfolios under one commissioner is an intelligent move. Of course, it… more ›

• Defence R&D in Europe

  May 23

  Introduction Research and Technology (R&T) and Research and Development (R&D) are critical ele- ments in the production of defence capabilities: without scientific and engineering inge- nuity, technological advances in the… more ›

• One Size to Fit All? Setting Standards for European Defence

  Apr 16

  Abstract While the crisis in Ukraine may contribute to a revision of defence expenditures in a number of European countries, the task of finding the right balance between cost-effective and… more ›

• Reducing the Environmental Bootprint? Competition and Regulation in the Greening of Europe’s Defense Sector

  Mar 31

  As part of the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy and climate targets and its drive for sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmental protection, various elements of the defense sector in Europe… more ›

• No TTIP-ing Point for European Defence?

  Mar 21

  Abstract The EU-US Summit on 26 March will mark eight months since the partners decided to formally launch negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The aim of… more ›

• An Industrious European Council on Defence?

  Feb 18

  The December 2013 Council meeting set in motion a number of important “roadmaps” for defence-industrial policy in Europe. Now the member states, the European Defence Agency and European Commission need… 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 ›

• The ‘TTIP-ing Point’: How the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Could Impact European Defence

  Oct 1

  The European Union and the United States are on the verge of agreeing to a transatlantic free trade agreement. The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is aimed at boosting… more ›

• More Competitive, More Efficient? The 2013 European Commission Defence Communication

  Sep 18

  The European Commission has now released its 2013 Communication on defence-industrial policy. But does the latest set of policy ideas offer European defence-industrial cooperation any new impetus? This Brief argues… more ›

• The Common Security and Defence Policy and IR Theory

  Aug 20

  Since its inception over a decade ago, the European Union’s (EU) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has seen the deployment of over 25 missions to various locations in the… more ›

• Europe and the Rest of the World

  Jul 19

  There were a number of leitmotifs by which to identify the European Union’s activities in 2012. The first of these was the eurozone crisis. A second theme was the change… more ›

• Improving CSDP Planning and Capability Development: Could there be a ‘Frontex Formula’?

  Jul 16

  The newly agreed operational rules for Frontex allows the Agency to, among other things, buy or lease its own equipment for missions and/or to do so in co-ownership with the… more ›

• The Sahel Crisis: Where do European and African Perspectives Meet?

  Mar 18

  The crisis in Mali has brought the Sahel to the centre of international attention. This fragile region not only suffers from longstanding development challenges, but also from an acute security… more ›

• Safeguarding the EDTIB: the Case for Supervising non-EU FDI in the Defence Sector

  Dec 18

  It is time for the EU member states to start collectively supervising non-EU FDI in Europe’s defence industries and infrastructures. This should be a prudent element of the nascent EDTIB… more ›

• How to Avoid the Three Pitfalls of European Strategy

  Oct 4

  European academics, think‐tankers and policy-makers make three consistent and critical errors when debating strategy: firstly, they do not clearly define what they mean by “strategy” – a problem that has… more ›

• How Europeanised has Maltese Foreign Policy Become?

  Aug 15

  This essay focuses on the degree to which Maltese foreign policy has become Europeanized because of its membership in the European Union. The author focuses on three trends resulting from… more ›