Defense: and what will Europe do?
The debate about European defense tends to focus on the need to spend more and deploy more. One deceptively simple question is usually ignored: why? Americans seem to assume that […]
European defence / NATO
Publications
The Future of the Benelux Defence Cooperation
Report of the seminar on Benelux Defence Cooperation, May 2013. This report is based on input for a seminar on Benelux Defence Cooperation which took place on 9 April 2013 […]
Safeguarding the EDTIB: the case for supervising non-EU FDI in the defence sector
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 […]
External publications
The UK and European Defence: leading or leaving?
The UK, with France, initiated the European, today Common, Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) in 1998–9. A strong consensus on the need to address capability shortfalls, which the UK accepted […]
Military capabilities: from pooling & sharing to a permanent and structured approach
In 2013 the European Council for the first time since long will deal with European defence. An excellent opportunity: to move key Pooling & Sharing projects to the implementation stage […]
CSDP and NATO post-Libya: towards the rubicon?
In the wake of Libya and the American pivot to Asia, CSDP-NATO relations must be recalibrated. The buzz word for CSDP should be: integrated through the EU and empowered through […]