
Permanent structured cooperation in defense of the obvious

In their first Security Policy Brief on Permanent Structured Cooperation (No. 9 of March 2010), Sven Biscop and Jo Coelmont outlined a concrete proposal to implement this new defence mechanism introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. Taking into account the debate since then, they follow this up with a detailed analysis of the added value of PSCD.
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