Europe in the World - publications

Overview

• Books
• Articles & chapters in books or journals
• Egmont Papers
• Security Policy Brief
• Studia Diplomatica
• Papers & Presentations
• EGMONT analyses & studies
• View the contributions of Sven Biscop and Thomas Renard on the Blog site Ideas on Europe - European Geostrategy Feed

Books

• Europa: strategie voor een wereldmacht, Sven Biscop, June 2010. To order online, see Academia Press.
• Belgium in the UN Security Council. Reflections on the 2007-2008 Membership, Jan Wouters, Edith Drieskens and Sven Biscop (eds.), August 2009.
• Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge in Europe, Rik Coolsaet, Ghent University, Belgium and Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium (ed.), Feb. 2008. More info, see flyer. Additional information about this book, including the list of contributors and the contents, can be found in the attached flyer. Orders can be send via
  https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?isbn=0 7546 7217 4
• The EU and the European Security Strategy. Forging a Global Europe, Sven Biscop, Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium and Jan Joel Andersson, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm Sweden (eds.), 2008.
• La politique étrangère de l’Administration Bush, analyse de la prise de décision (2001-2005), Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Coll. CECRI, P.IE.- Peter-Lang, Bruxelles, 2007.
• The European Security Strategy. A global agenda for positive power, Sven Biscop, August 2005. Order form.

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Articles & chapters in books or journals

• EU counterterrorism strategy: value added or chimera?, Rik Coolsaet, in International Affairs, Vol. 86 No. 4, July 2010, pp. 857-874.
• Le Syndrome de Copenhague, Thomas Renard, in Revue de Défense Nationale, n°6, June 2010.
• The ENP, Security and Democracy in the Context of the European Security Strategy, Sven Biscop, in Richard G. Whitman & Stefan Wolff (eds.), The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2010.
• Coping with the Copenhagen syndrome, Thomas Renard, in E!Sharp, 10 March 2010.
• Sven Biscop contributed chapters on the European Security Strategy and on Permanent Structured Cooperation to the first CSDP Handbook published under the auspices of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and the Austrian Ministry of Defence.
• The European Union as a Security Actor: Cooperative Multilateralism, Sven Biscop and Thomas Renard, in Security and Human Rights, vol. 21:1, 2010, pp.12-17.
• 2010: en toen werd de EU een grootmacht?, Sven Biscop, in AP n°1, 2010, pp. 16-19.
• An EDA as ambitious as the Lisbon Treaty, Jo Coelmont, in EDA Bulletin, Issue 13, Febr. 2010, pp.6-7.
• Afghanistan : une guerre stratégique pour l’Europe, un conflit existentiel pour l’OTAN, Thomas Renard & Tanguy Struye, Défense et Sécurité Internationale (DSI), n°53, Nov. 2009.
• Défense Européenne, La Grande Illusion [European Defence, The Great Illusion] - Book Review, Thomas Renard, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 14:4 (2009), pp. 624-626.
• End-State Afghanistan, Jo Coelmont, in BEPA Monthly Brief, Issue 30, Oct. 2009, pp. 13-15.
• Un climat de terreur : impacts potentiels du changement climatique sur le terrorisme, Thomas Renard, in Défense et Sécurité Internationale (DSI), Hors-Série n°8, octobre-novembre 2009.
• Strategisch partnerschap tussen de EU en de BRICs: waar is de strategie?, Sven Biscop and Thomas Renard, in Internationale Spectator, Oktober 2009 - 63(10), pp. 514-516.
• The EU's Strategic Partnerships with the BRIC: Where's the Strategy?, Sven Biscop and Thomas Renard, in BEPA Monthly Brief, issue 29, Sept. 2009, pp. 6-8.
• Afghanistan: Strategic war for Europeans, existential conflict for NATO, Thomas Renard, on the Blog Ideas on Europe - European Geostrategy, 8 Sep. 2009.
• Time for a European Union grand strategy, Sven Biscop, on the Blog Ideas on Europe - European Geostrategy, 18 Aug. 2009.
• Odd Couple or Dynamic Duo? The EU and Strategy in Times of Crisis, Sven Biscop, in European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 14, 2009, No. 3, pp. 367-384.
• Une stratégie de bon sens. Engager l’Organisation de Coopération de Shanghai dans la lutte contre le narcotrafic, Thomas Renard, in Défense et Sécurité Internationale (DSI), n°48, mai 2009.
• Europol report describes Afghanistan-Pakistan connection to trends in European Terrorism, Thomas Renard, in Terrorism Monitor, Vol VII, n°12 (8 May 2009).
• The Coming Order: Strategic and Geopolitical Impacts of the Economic Crisis, Thomas Renard, in World Politics Review, 14 april 2009.
• Quels partenariats pour renforcer le potentiel des diasporas pour le développement?, Romeo Matsas, in Migrations et Développement, Les Cahiers de la Coopération Internationale, n°10, mars 2009.
  
• President Obama, Europe and the Middle East, Sven Biscop, in Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs III : 1, 2009.
• Djihad en Allemagne: La Connexion Ouzbèke, Les Cahiers du RMES, volume 5, numéro 2, hiver 2008-2009.
• The Georgia-Russia Stalemate: Do's and Don'ts: Rik Coolsaet, Rik Coolsaet, in SDA Discussion Paper, 11 Dec. 2008: The Georgia-Russia Stalemate: Dos and Don'ts for avoiding a new Cold War.
• La Stratégie européenne de sécurité : mettre en oeuvre l’approche holistique, Sven Biscop, in L’Europe de la défense : acteurs, enjeux et processus (Flyer + Bon de commande), Les Champs de Mars, n°19, Jan. 2008.
• EU and China: Partners in Effective Multilateralism, Sven Biscop, Liselotte Odgaard, in David Kerr and Liu Fei (eds.), The International Politics of EU-China Relations, British Academy Occasional Papers number 10, 2008.
• A Defining Commitment for the EU: Preventing (Even More) Conflict in the Middle East, Sven Biscop, in Anders Mellbourn and Peter Wallensteen (eds.), Third Parties and Conflict Prevention, Anna Lindh Books 2008 Edition, pp.77-93.
• The EU and Euro-Mediterranean Security: A New Departure?, Sven Biscop, in Nicola Casarini and Costanze Musu (eds.), European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System. The Road Towards Convergence, August 2007.
• Lebanon: Wait and See Is Not an Option!, Sven Biscop, in Expert Advisory Group (EAG) Policy Paper, n°1, June 2007: Changing Realities in the Region.
• Europa en het Midden-Oosten: tijd voor leiderschap - naast of tegenover de Verenigde Staten, Sven Biscop, opiniestuk in Internationale Spectator, jg. 61, nr. 4, april 2007, pp. 218-219.
• Europe and the Middle East: Time to resume Leadership - including towards the US, Sven Biscop, in CFSP Forum, Vol. 5, n°2, March 2007.
• Eb en vloed in 60 jaar Nederlands-Belgische betrekkingen, Rik Coolsaet, in Internationale Spectator, jg. 60, nr. 11, november 2006, pp. 585-589.
• De Europese Veiligheidsstrategie twee jaar later. Eerste balans van een integratieproject, Sven Biscop, in Atlantisch Perspectief 3, 2006.
• Understanding the new security environment: a comprehensive approach?, Sven Biscop, in KHID-IRSD, New answers to new threats? Our Western society facing new security challenges. Symposium proceedings 30 Nov. 2005, IRSD-KHID, Brussel, 2006, pp. 13-17.
• Effective multilateralism and collective security: empowering the UN, Sven Biscop, in Katie Verlin Laatikainen & Karen E. Smith (eds.), The European Union at the United Nations. Intersecting Multilateralisms, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, pp. 115-132.
• The European Union and the United Nations. Partners in effective mulitlateralism, Sven Biscop, Francesco Francioni, Kennedy Graham with Tânia Felício, Jeffrey Laurenti and Thierry Tardy, in Chaillot Paper 78, June 2005: cover and text.
• De Economische en Sociale Raad, Valérie Arnould, in Jan Wouters and Cedric Ryngaert (red.), De Verenigde Naties: Een wereld van verschil?, Leuven, Acco, 2005.
• Able and Willing? Assessing the EU's Capacity for Military Action, Sven Biscop, in European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 9, No. 9, 2004, pp. 509-527. Beschikbaar op verzoek/disponible sur demande /available on request:
• The European Security Strategy and the Neighbourhood Policy: A New Starting Point for a Euro-Mediterranean Security Partnership?, Sven Biscop, in Fulvio Attinà & Rosa Rossi (eds.), European Neighbourhood Policy: Political, Economic and Social Issues. Catania, University of Catania, 2004, pp. 25-36. Beschikbaar op verzoek/disponible sur demande / available on request:
• GLOBAL EUROPE Report 1: Effective Multilateralism Europe, Regional Security and a Revitalised UN, edited by Espen Barth Eide. Contributors: Martin Ortega, Valérie Arnould, Sven Biscop, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Richard Gowan.
  The Foreign Policy Centre, The British Council, The European Commission, in association with Wilton Park, published by The Foreign Policy Centre, Dec. 2004.
• Al-Qaeda tussen mythen en realiteit, Rik Coolsaet, in Internationale Spectator, jg. 58, nr. 11, november 2004, pp. 523-530.
• The European Security Strategy. Implementing a Distinctive Approach to Security, Sven Biscop, published by the Royal Defence College (IRSD-KHID), Brussels, in Sécurité & Stratégie, Paper n°82, March 2004.

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Egmont Papers

• n°36: The EU as a global actor in a multipolar world and multilateral 2.0 environment, Luk Van Langenhove, March 2010.
• n°35: Fearing a 'Shiite Octopus'. Sunni – Shi`a relations and the implications for Belgium and Europe, Jelle Puelings, Jan. 2010
• n°34: Europe Rediscovers Peacekeeping? Political and Military Logics in the 2006 UNIFIL Enhancement, Alexander Mattelaer, Oct. 2009.
• n°33: The value of power, the power of values: a call for an EU Grand Strategy, Sven Biscop (ed.), Oct. 2009.
• n°32: Legislating amidst Public Controversy: the Services Directive, Peter Timmerman, Oct. 2009.
• n°31: A BRIC in the World: Emerging Powers, Europe, and the Coming Order, Thomas Renard, Oct. 2009.
• n°29: End-State Afghanistan, Jo Coelmont (ed.), March 2009.
• n°28: Atlantic loyalty, European Autonomy. Belgium and the Atlantic Alliance 1949-2009, Rik Coolsaet, March 2009.
• n°27: Europe: A time for strategy, Sven Biscop, Jolyon Howorth and Bastian Giegerich, Jan. 2009.
• n°24: The Lisbon Treaty and ESDP: transformation and integration, Sven Biscop and Franco Algieri (eds.), June 2008.
• n°23: Balancing Defence and Security Efforts with a Permanently Structured Scorecard, Patrick Wouters, June 2008.
• n°21: European Defence in the Wake of the Lisbon Treaty, Bruno Angelet and Ioannis Vrailas, Mai 2008.
• n°20: Permanent Structured Cooperation and the Future of ESDP, Sven Biscop, April 2008.
• n°17: The Coming Energy Crash and its Impact on the European Union, Franklin Dehousse, Feb. 2008.
• n°16: The ABC of European Union Strategy: Ambition, Benchmark, Culture, Sven Biscop, Oct. 2007.
• n°15: Belgium and Counterterrorism Policy in the Jihadi Era (1986-2007), Rik Coolsaet and Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Sept. 2007.
• n°14: La contribution militaire belge à la Politique Européenne de Sécurité et de Défense (Fr) -
  De militaire bijdrage van België aan het Europees veiligheids- en defensiebeleid (Nl), June 2007.
• n°13: For a ‘More Active’ EU in the Middle East. Transatlantic Relations and the Strategic Implications of Europe’s Engagement with Iran, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine, Sven Biscop, March 2007.
• n°12: Toward a More Independent Europe, Michael Brenner, March 2007.
• n°11: NATO, ESDP and the RIGA Summit: no transformation without re-equilibration, Sven Biscop, 24 May 2006.
• n°10: UN Reform and Nato Transformation: the missing link, Dick A. Leurdijk, 23 Nov. 2005.
• n°9: Security Council Reform: A New Veto for a New Century?, Jan Wouters and Tom Ruys, August 2005.
• n°8: Arab reform: what role for the EU?, Irene Menendez Gonzalez, May 2005.
• n°7: E Pluribus Unum? Military integration in the European Union, Sven Biscop, May 2005.
• n°5: Between al-Andalus and a failing integration Europe's pursuit of a long-term counterterrorism strategy in the post-al-Qaeda era, Rik Coolsaet, 18 April 2005.
• n°4: Regional Security and Global Governance: a proposal for a 'Regional-Global Security Mechanism' in light of the UN High-Level Panel's Report, Kennedy Graham and Tânia Felício, Jan. 2005.
• n°3: An audit of European Strategy, Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop (ed.), Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Richard Gowan, Dr. Jean-Yves Haine, Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Major-General (RTD.) Kees Homan, Jan. 2005.
• n°2: Global Governance: The Next Frontier, a concept on global governance as a guide for a new ambition in international diplomacy, April 2004.
• n°1: A European Security Concept for the 21st Century, a Belgian contribution to a comprehensive EU Security Strategy, April 2004.

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Security Policy Brief

• A New Security Architecture for Europe? Russian Proposals and Western Reactions Part II, Patrick Nopens, Security Policy Brief 10, April 2010.
• Permanent Structured Cooperation for Effective European Armed Forces, Sven Biscop and Jo Coelmont, Security Policy Brief 9, March 2010.
• The Impact of Global Warming on the Geopolitics of the Arctic. A Historical Opportunity for Russia?, Patrick Nopens, Security Policy Brief 8, March 2010.
• A Grand Strategy: Does it Matter in the Real World?, Jo Coelmont, Security Policy Brief 7, February 2010.
• To Rule The Waves: Why a Maritime Geostrategy is Needed to Sustain European Union, James Rogers, Security Policy Brief 6, Jan. 2010.
• A Need for Strategy in a Multipolar World: Recommendations to the EU after Lisbon, Thomas Renard and Sven Biscop, Security Policy Brief 5, Jan. 2010.
• Egmont’s Grand Strategy Project. A Strategy for the European Union in the Post-Cold War International System: a Third-party, Frédéric Ramel, Security Policy Brief 4, Jan. 2010.
• A New Security Architecture for Europe? Russian Proposal and Western Reactions, Patrick Nopens, Security Policy Brief 3, Nov. 2009.
• End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective, Jo Coelmont, Security Policy Brief 2, Nov. 2009.
• The Iranian Elections from a Distance, Jelle Puelings, Security Policy Brief 1, Sept. 2009.

Studia Diplomatica

• Buitenlands beleid in België anno 2008: beleid onder binnenlandspolitieke druk, Rik Coolsaet and Skander Nasra, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXII, Special issue, 2009: La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. Anno 2008.
• Ambition, benchmark, culture. The ABC of European strategy revisited, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXII, n°1, 2009.
• The European Union in International Affairs. Preface, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXI, n°4, 2008: The European Union in International Affairs.
• The European Security Strategy 2003-2008: Review and Implementation, Editorial, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXI, n°3, 2008: The European Security Strategy 2003-2008: Review and Implementation.
• Unfolding the benefits of the migration and development nexus, Rik Coolsaet, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXI, n°2, 2008: Migration and Development. Global Governance.
• The Global Forum on Migration and Development: a new path for global governance?, Romeo Matsas, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXI, n°2, 2008: Migration and Development. Global Governance.
• Making remittances work for development: moving ahead the GFMD Agenda, Dilip Ratha and Romeo Matsas, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXI, n°2, 2008: Migration and Development. Global Governance.
• België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. Anno 2006. Inleiding / Introduction, Rik Coolsaet, Christian Frank, Tanguy de Wilde d'Estmael, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, Suppl., 2007: België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. Anno 2006.
• Perspectieven op het buitenlands beleid in België anno 2006, Rik Coolsaet, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, Suppl., 2007: België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. Anno 2006.
• La politique étrangère de la Belgique 2004-2006. Un essai d'évaluation, Tanguy de Wilde d'Estmael, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, Suppl., 2007: België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. Anno 2006.
• Europese defensie en de NAVO: op zoek naar complementariteit, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, Suppl., 2007: België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. Anno 2006.
• Bibliografie. Buitenlandse politiek in België. Bibliographie. Politique étrangère en Belgique 2005-2006, Rik Coolsaet, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, Suppl., 2007: België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. Anno 2006.
• Introduction. Global Europe: A Vision — A Power?, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°1, 2007: GLOBAL EUROPE - Special Issue on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and the 60th anniversary of the Institute.
• The Ambiguous Ambition - The Development of the EU Security Architecture, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°1, 2007: GLOBAL EUROPE - Special Issue on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and the 60th anniversary of the Institute.
• The foreign security policy of the European Union. Editorial, Sven Biscop, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LIX, n°1, 2006: The foreign security policy of the European Union.

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Papers & Presentations

• At an expert seminar on Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence organized by the Belgian Presidency of the EU in the Royal Military Academy on 13 July 2010, Sven Biscop spoke in the last panel, which was chaired by Jo Coelmont, about the strengths and opportunities of the concept and its added value at the EU and the national level. In the run-up to the seminar, the EU Institute for Security studies published the views of Prof. Biscop and Brig-Gen. Coelmont as EUISS Opinion - Press release.
• On 29 June 2010 at UNRIC in Brussels, Brig-Gen (R) Jo Coelmont gave the lecture "Het belang van de niet-militaire aspecten van vredesoperaties" - Report.
• On 18 June 2010 at the graduation ceremony of the College of Europe in Bruges, Brig-Gen (R) Jo Coelmont on behalf of the Institute handed the first ever Egmont Award for the Best Thesis on the External Relations of the EU to Mr. Tobias Felix Franke, for his MA dissertation "Nosce Te Ipsum – Positioning the EU’s CSDP as a Regional Ordnungsmacht".
• On 12 May 2010 Thomas Renard gave a speech on the EU-South Africa strategic partnership at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Brussels.
• In the first two weeks of May, Sven Biscop lectured on EU foreign and security policy as a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing. On 7 May he also spoke in the opening plenary of a conference about the Lisbon Treaty at Sichuan University in Chengdu.
• On 8-9 May 2010 Sven Biscop talked about the EU after the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.
• On 4-5 May 2010 Thomas Renard gave a presentation on the EU-China relationship in a changing global environment at Renmin University in Beijing, China.
• At the request of Belgian Foreign Affairs, on 8 March Egmont organized a roundtable with two members of the Group of Experts preparing a new strategic concept for NATO, Ambassador Fernando Perpiñá-Robert Peyra and Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld, who met with expert academics and journalists from Belgium as part of their round of consultations with civil society in all Allied countries.
• Recente strategische ontwikkelingen m.b.t. België's resterende kerntaak, Rik Coolsaet, Commissie Nucleaire Ontwapening, Senaat, 2 maart 2010.
• Of Greeks and Romans: The EU, US and Security Strategy in a Multipolar World, Sven Biscop, Fride Policy Brief n°35, Feb. 2010.
• The United States, NATO and the European Union: Partnership in the Balance, Robert Hunter and Sven Biscop, Atlantic Council SAG Issue Brief, Feb. 2010.
• On 4 Feb. 2010 Sven Biscop lectured about the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy in the Advanced Command and Staff Course in Shrivenham, UK.
• On 30 Jan. 2010 Sven Biscop spoke about "A strategy for CSDP operations in Africa and beyond" at the First Symposium of the African Federation for Strategic Studies, in Marrakech.
• On 25 Jan. 2010 Sven Biscop gave a guest lecture on "The European Security Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities" at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), to a combined session of the ETC and ITC courses.
• On 18 Jan. 2010 Sven Biscop gave a lecture about "Macht en waarden in het Middellandse Zeegebied: Tijd voor een EU-Strategie" at a conference organised by the European Movement of Belgium and MEDEA.
• On 30 Jan. 2010 Sven Biscop spoke about "A strategy for CSDP operations in Africa and beyond" at the First Symposium of the African Federation for Strategic Studies, in Marrakech.
• On 25 Jan. 2010 Sven Biscop gave a guest lecture on "The European Security Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities" at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), to a combined session of the ETC and ITC courses.
• On 12 Jan. 2010 Thomas Renard gave a speech on "What strategy for the EU in a multipolar world" at the first State of the Union Think Tank Forum, an annual meeting organised by Brussels-based think tanks.
• On 7 Dec. 2009 at the invitation of the Europe Society, Sven Biscop presented Egmont’s project for an EU Grand Strategy at the London School of Economics.
• On 4 Dec. 2009 Sven Biscop spoke about EU Grand Strategy at the annual "Europaforum" (http://www.aies.at/aktuell/2009/europaforum.php) of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy, at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. The audio file of his intervention is available at http://www.aies.at/audio/2009_AIES_Biscop.mp3.
• On 2 Dec. 2009 Thomas Renard gave a speech on the geopolitical implications of the global crisis at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Brussels.
• On 27 Nov. 2009 Sven Biscop gave a guest lecture on European and Atlantic defence strategy in the “Military Strategy Course” at the Netherlands Defence College in The Hague.
• On 27 Nov. 2009 Thomas Renard gave a speech on the "EU-India strategic partnership in a multipolar world" during an event in Paris co-organised by the Fondation Jean Jaure´`es and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS).
• On 6 Oct. 2009 Sven Biscop spoke at the opening conference (programme of the new Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM) in Paris. Inaugurating the new institute, Mr. Hervé Morin, French Minister of Defence, referred to Egmont as one of the first rate international think tanks with which IRSEM should develop a close partnership (speech van Morin).
• On 16 Sept. 2009 the WEU Assembly held a hearing with Sven Biscop, who presented his joint study with Simon Serfaty about "Euro-Atlantic security strategy".
• Traditionally, Egmont supports the first module of the annual High-Level Course of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), which took off in Brussels on 14 Sept. 2009. Sven Biscop lectured about recent developments in ESDP for an audience of over 60 officials from all EU Member States and from the European institutions. See: https://ue.eu.int/showPage.aspx?id=1382&lang=nl.
• On 11 Sept. 2009 Sven Biscop spoke at the 2nd Annual CFSP Review Conference, organized by the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin, where he addressed the lessons learnt from ESDP operations.
• Egmont is a partner in SANDERA (Security and Defence in the European Research Area), a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. Sven Biscop attended the first project meeting on 7-8 Sept. in Manchester.
• A Shared Security Strategy for a Euro-Atlantic Partnership of Equals, Simon Serfaty and Sven Biscop, July 20, 2009 -- CSIS online Report.
• On 25 June 2009 Sven Biscop addressed the European Security Strategy (ESS) at a conference about the EU as a global actor organized by the Higher School for Economics of the State University in Moscow. On that occasion, his recent work about the ESS was published in Russian in the International Organizations Research Journal.
• On 22 May 2009, Sven Biscop gave the opening speech at a conference about the European Security Strategy at the University of Cambridge (http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/).
• On 21 May 2009, Sven Biscop addressed a group of parliamentary advisors from South East Europe about the EU’s view of regional security, at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF, http://www.dcaf.ch/).
• On 13 May 2009 Sven Biscop addressed a conference in Rome, organized by the offices of the European Commission and European Parliament and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), about the priorities for EU foreign and security policy in the legislative period 2009-2014.
• On 21 April 2009 Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop gave a lecture at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) in Stockholm about "A Common European Security Strategy – EU and NATO?".
• Thomas Renard, The Crisis, the Great Game, and the EU, Guest Lecture at the College of Europe (Bruges), 25 March 2009.
• Sven Biscop participated at the SDA Evening Debate "Can NATO's solidarity crisis be fixed?" - Discussants addressed the main findings of the study through the principal question of the weakening solidarity within the Alliance - March 26th 2009.
• Les Membres d'Alliance Géostratégique, La Blogosphère Stratégique Francophone, Lettre d'Informations de Défense Nationale et Sécurité Collective, n°65, mars 2009.
  
• A Future Agenda for the European Security and Defence Policy, Fundación Alternativas, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Egmont, February 2009.
• The Strategic Planning of EU Military Operations - The Case of EUFOR TCHAD / RCA, Alexander Mattelaer, IES Working Paper 5, 2008. Alexander Mattelaer is writing a PhD on European security at the Institute for European Studies of the VUB, under the co-supervision of Sven Biscop of the Egmont Institute.
• On 30 Oct. 2008 Romeo Matsas presented the official Working Paper of Session 1.2 on Empowering Migrants and Diasporas To Contribute to Development co-chaired by Belgium and El Salvador during the government meeting of the second meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Manila, The Philippines. For more information, see www.gfmd2008.org.
• Permanent Structured Cooperation and the Future of ESDP: Transformation and Integration, Sven Biscop, presented at the 3rd seminar in the EUISS-coordinated series on the European Security Strategy, Helsinki, 18-19 Sept. 2008.
• Introduction to the Migration and Development Nexus (M&D), Romeo Matsas, lecture in French given at the General Information Cycle organized by the Belgian Technical Cooperation, June 28, 2008.
• The Global Forum on Migration and Development: A New Path for Global Governance?, Romeo Matsas, paper presented at the 2008 ACUNS Annual Meeting The United Nations and Global Development Architecture, Bonn, Germany, 5-7 June 2008.
• Quels partenariats pour renforcer le potentiel des diasporas pour le développement ?, Romeo Matsas, séminaire introductif des organisations membres du Groupe de Travail Migrations et Développement du CNCD- 11.11.11 La Cohérence des Politiques de Migration et de Développement, Bruxelles, 12 juin 2008.
• Report and outcomes of the first meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development: Remittances and other diaspora resources, Romeo Matsas, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the CDE’s European Institutional Network - Lanzarote, 27 Sept. 2007.
• The International Security Engagement of the European Union - Courage and Capabilities for a More Active EU Report from the 1P stP European Strategic Forum, Warsaw 2006, Sven Biscop, Internationale Politikanalyse - International Policy Analysis Unit, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, January 2007.
• The Ambiguous Ambition. The Development of the EU Security Architecture, Sven Biscop, paper presented at the colloquium The EC/EU: A World Security Actor? An Assessment after 50 Years of the External Actions of the EC/EU, Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, 15 Sept. 2006.
• Strategy or Stratagem? The European Security Strategy in Perspective, Sven Biscop, paper presented at the UACES 36th Annual Conference and 11th Research Conference. Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2006.
• The EU and China: Partners in Effective Multilateralism?, Liselotte Odgaard, Sven Biscop, paper presented at the conference on the International Politics of EU-China Relations sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy, 20-21 April 2006.
• Radicalisation and Europe's counter-terrorism strategy, Rik Coolsaet, The Transatlantic Dialogue on Terrorism - CSIS/Clingendael, The Hague, Dec. 8-9, 2005.
• Network or Labyrinth?, Sven Biscop, paper for Presentation at the Helsinki Monitor Conference, OSCE's Future after 30 Years, Vienna, 9 Sept. 2005.
• The European Security Strategy and the Neighbourhood Policy: A New Starting Point for a Euro-Mediterranean Security Partnership?, Sven Biscop, paper presented at EUSA Ninth Biennial International Conference, Austin, Texas, 31 March − 2 April 2005.
• Effective multilateralism and collective security: empowering the UN, Sven Biscop, Edith Drieskens, IIEB Working Paper 16, March 2005.
• Security in the 21st Century: EU and UN Approaches, Valérie Arnould, paper presented to the Japan-EU Think Tank Roundtable on Next steps in Global Governance, EPC-NIRA-Japan Foundation, 13-15 January 2005, Tokyo. (See also EPC Issue Paper n°24).
• The world is the stage: a global security strategy for the European Union, Sven Biscop, Rik Coolsaet, Notre Europe Policy Papers n°8, Dec. 2003 - see also: http://www.notre-europe.asso.fr.
• A More Efficient United Nations: EU's Contribution, Sven Biscop, introductory speech to the Panel of the Seminar on the EU Security Strategy, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, 6-7 Oct. 2003.
• European Security: What, Why, When, How ?, Rik Coolsaet, opening lecture given at the Institute for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 7 Oct. 2003.
• Staying on Course − the Quadrilateral Defence Summit and the European Security and Defence Policy in the wake of '9/11' and Iraq, Sven Biscop, June 2003.
• Rebellen in de NAVO, voortrekkers in de EU? Een post-Irak regime voor het veiligheids- en defensiebeleid, Sven Biscop, May 2003.

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• CRIV 51 COM 986. Version Provisoire. Chambre des Repr. de Belgique - Belg. Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers: Compte rendu intégral: Réunion commune des Commissions de la Défense nationale et des relations extérieures de la Chambre et de la Commission des Relations Extérieures et de la Défense du Sénat - Integraal Verslag : Gemeenschappelijke vergadering van de Commissies voor de landsverdediging en voor de buitenlandse betrekkingen van de Kamer en van de Commissie voor de Buitenlandse Betrekkingen en voor de Landsverdediging van de Senaat - 06/06/2006 - Après-midi - Namiddag. L'avenir de l'OTAN - De toekomst van de NAVO.
• L'avenir de l'OTAN, Dominique Struye de Swielande, intervention du Représentant Permanent de la Belgique à l'OTAN, l'Ambassadeur Dominique Struye, devant le Collège de Défense de l'OTAN, Rome, 19 Nov. 2004.

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