A World in Flux
Scholars and pundits alike have been qualifying our times as of “transition and turbulence”, “disorder” and “strategic unease”. Other concepts that recur in discussions on the present state of the […]
Security Policy Briefs
Publications
European Defence: What’s in the CARDs for PESCO?
Suddenly everything is happening at once: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), the European Defence Fund (EDF)… The launch of PESCO is expected before the […]
With PESCO brought to life, will European defence live happily ever after?
In 2003 already, the draft constitutional treaty elaborated by the European Convention included several articles that amounted to a move from an entirely intergovernmental European Security and Defence Policy to […]
Europe’s “new” jihad: Homegrown, leaderless, virtual
Recent terrorist attacks in Europe were committed by homegrown radicals, mostly by loners with limited ties to the Islamic State, if any. Many observers agree that the jihadi threat is […]
European Economic Diplomacy: what role for the EIB?
Led by the European Commission and the European External Action Service, European economic diplomacy is in the making. This exercise requires a strengthened co-ordination not only between the EU and […]
EU-South Korea security relations: The current state of play
The EU and South Korea both face challenging circumstances in the domestic and international arenas. The EU is focused on Eurozone instability, terrorism, political extremism, revisionist Russia, and crises in […]