The EU Global Strategy and Defence: The challenge of thinking strategically about means
Since strategy is about connecting ends, ways and means, the means constrain the ends.
Publications
Spearheading European defence
Sven Biscop contributed to a report from Egmont’s sister institute, the Netherlands Institute for International Relations Clingendael, which assesses to what extent the provisions that were introduced with the Lisbon Treaty […]
The changing global governance landscape: China’s multipronged approach and the EU’s response
Disenchanted with the scale and slow pace of reforms in global governance, China has been active in utilising its increased economic and – by extension – political weight to shape […]
Migration – How CSDP can support
On 13 September, Egmont hosted a conference on the role of CSDP when dealing with migration, co-organized with the Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports, the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and […]
September 2016: Back-to-school politics – the EU’s new commitments
A snapshot of the EU’s new ambitions in the wake of the State of the Union speech and the Bratislava Declaration as scene-setters for the ‘rentrée politique’.
An ambitious defence follow-up for an ambitious EUGS
In a contribution to the latest issue of “Defence Matters”, the magazine of the European Defence Agency, Sven Biscop sets out his views on what the EU Global Strategy entails […]