Security aspects of connectivity
Published in October 2018, the European Commission’s joint communication Connecting Europe and Asia – Building Blocks for an EU Strategy offers a good outline of the principles underlying the European […]
Security Policy Briefs
Publications
The power to engage: Giving punch to a new EU Global Strategy 2020
I like being a policy-oriented academic: you meet lots of interesting people and you are invited to interesting meetings, so you can really contribute to the debate. Some actors may […]
Reviving the Security Function: The EU’s Path to Save the JCPOA
Europe’s efforts to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for Iran alive hardly seem effective. On 28 June 2019, during a meeting of the Joint Commission of JCPOA, […]
An EU Security Council and a European Commissioner for Security and Defence: The Final Pieces of the Union’s Common Security & Defence Policy Puzzle?
These last few years the EU has taken considerable steps to give more substance to its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Nearly all the pieces of the puzzle are […]
The End of the INF-Treaty: Context and Consequences
On 2 August both the US and the Russian Federation will no longer be restrained by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987). Early this century it gradually became clear […]
Autonomy and Strategy: what should Europe want?
Europe wants autonomy and it wants a strategy. Semantically, of course, “wants” has a double meaning. First, it means “lacks”. Europe lacks autonomy and it lacks a strategy. The second […]