The strategic effect of European Union operations
The European Union is certainly active through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP): witness the large number of past and present military and civilian operations, across the globe. But […]
EU and strategic partners
Publications
EU seeks truly strategic partners
On the EU’s strategic partnerships, their meaning and purposes. This commentary was published ahead of the 2010 European Council that addressed this issue. It was published simultaneously in French under […]
Searching for a Brussels Machiavelli
Neither a Machiavelli or a Bismarck has yet emerged from Brussels but it is time for the EU to start thinking about being a power on the world stage. A […]
Strategy wanted: the European union and strategic partnerships
The European Union (EU) has nine strategic partnerships with third countries, but the rationale behind these is far from evident, and the implementation questionable. Therefore, the raison d’être of these […]
European studies discovers strategy
Sven Biscop shows modernised, broader definition of strategy allows for the useful application of the strategic perspective to the European Union, which has become an actor in its own right […]
The Old World’s importance to the new world order
Is the European Union – or even its Member States – still a key ally for the United States? Is the Atlantic Alliance in decline? To be sure the alleged […]