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    Into the breach! EU military CSDP missions and operations

    For more than 20 years, the EU has deployed troops beyond its borders. But what has been the impact? At a time when the EU is faced with the challenge of taking on a larger role in security and defence, this Brief presents three alternatives for future EU military CSDP missions...

    Briefs
    7 March, 2024 By: Jan Joel Andersson
  • Yearbook of European Security 2023

    The 2023 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2022 that were significant for European security – in particular, inevitably, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    Books
    2 August 2023 Edited By: Jan Joel Andersson, Clara Sophie Cramer
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    The new civilian CSDP compact

    This book presents 38 contributions from EU civilian crisis management experts, which fed into the policymaking process leading to the adoption of the new Civilian CSDP Compact in May 2023.

    Books
    17 May 2023 Edited by: Giovanni Faleg, Volker Jacoby, Karin Limdal, Marleen de Haan, Patrick von Rakowski
  • Yearbook of European Security 2022

    The 2022 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2021 that were significant for European security. The book charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defence policy.

    Books
    21 December 2022 Edited By: Daniel Fiott, Linnéa Cullman
  • The impact of Covid-19 on CSDP

    CSDP missions and operations, including the steering bodies in Brussels, were severely affected by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This Brief examines the impact that Covid-19 has had on the CSDP and points to some lessons which can be drawn from the experiences of dealing...

    Briefs
    2 September, 2021 Edited By: Tobias Pietz
  • Uncharted territory? Towards a common threat analysis and a Strategic Compass for EU security and defence

    Despite the direction offered by the EU Global Strategy, there is as yet no common approach to how member state governments understand threats to the EU’s security. Under the new Strategic Compass initiative – designed to provide enhanced politico-strategic direction for EU...

    Briefs
    9 July, 2020 By: Daniel Fiott
  • The CSDP in 2020

    This book provides an analytical overview of the key historical CSDP developments and critically appraises the last two decades. A host of leading think tank analysts and a senior EU official look at issues such as institutional design, operations and missions, capabilities...

    Books
    31 March 2020 Edited by: Daniel Fiott
  • Strategic investment: making geopolitical sense of the EU's defence industrial policy

    This Chaillot Paper focuses on new EU initiatives in the defence domain – in particular the creation of the European Defence Fund – and on the Union’s evolving role and engagement in this sector.

    Chaillot Papers
    13 December 2019 By: Daniel Fiott
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    The EU and NATO

    The EUISS and the Research Division of the NATO Defense College joined forces to examine NATO-EU cooperation from a variety of angles. Specifically, this publication analyses interaction between both organisations by focusing on the main areas of cooperation identified in the two...

    Books
    9 August 2019 Edited by: Gustav Lindstrom, Thierry Tardy
  • EUISS Yearbook of European Security 2019

    The 2019 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2018 that were significant for European security and charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defence policy.

    Books
    18 July 2019 By: Daniel Fiott

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