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A New Era of Stability
The recent Turkish elections delivered a landslide victory for the AKP. What was crucial about these elections?
A Blueprint for Reform: The Case for a National Security Strategy
Collaboration between departments must no longer be seen as an accessory of government in response to modern security challenges, but as necessity.
The UK's Risk Management Approach to National Security
This article examines the nature of the natural and non-state threats to the UK together with the tools employed to reduce the associated risks.
Falklands Logistics: Have We Learnt the Lessons and Could We Do it Again Today?
This article revisits the logistical challenges of the Falklands campaign and examines what became of the recommendations made all those years ago.
Hope Deferred? The European Defence Agency after Three Years
As the EDA’s third birthday approaches, relations between the UK and the agency have soured dramatically.
US-EU Differences in Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Both the US and EU agree on the substance of the threat from nuclear proliferation. However, there is divergence of the preferred means for ensuring non-proliferation.
EU at Fifty: Still Looking for Love
Reflecting on the European Union's first fifty years, Sir Paul Lever considers the current challenges facing the European project.
After Admitting Failure on Iran, Will Europe Take the Gloves Off?
A leaked EU report recognises that diplomatic efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons programme have failed. Member states must decide whether they can accept a nuclear Iran, and what can be done to stop its programme.
Nordic-Baltic Challenges and the New Swedish Government
Will the new Government be a more active player in the European Union's European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)?
Future EU-Russia Relations
Moscow appears determined not to lose additional influence to the EU and NATO in the former Soviet republics
EU-Battlegroups: Some New Capabilities, Actually
The concept of the EU Battlegroup has developed with unusual speed and the somewhat unorthodox solutions to the multilateral arrangements for some of them are distinctly new.
European Effects: The EU’s Multidisciplinary Approach to Security
What value does the EU bring as a global actor and what must it do to enhance its role further?
ESDP implications of the reform treaty
The European Security Programme looks into the implications of the upcoming Libson Treaty in the field of security and defence.
Galileo satellite navigation system off course?
Will it end up in a blind alley?
French President Sarkozy visits Russia
Au revoir to old dreams of a 'Paris-Moscow axis'?
Putin remaining in power
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be further consolidating his power beyond his term as President. However, the security and stability such continuity would provide may, in fact, prove illusory.
Russia’s Government Reshuffle: Changing in order to Make No Change
Putin has appointed a prime-minister with no power-base, perhaps in order to maintain his own power when he leaves office.
The Legacy of Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin's legacy, although important, has created the problems which the world faces with Russia today. Yeltsin was a great man, who also left a great deal of problems.
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Articles
A New Era of StabilityThe recent Turkish elections delivered a landslide victory for the AKP. What was crucial about these elections?
French Security and Defence Policy under Sarkozy: Gazing into the Crystal Ball
Whilst the dust has barely settled from Presidential and Parliamentary elections in which security and defence issues were very largely absent from the debate, interested parties both within and outside France are already trying to discern the directions in which the new President and his senior team will steer France on these issues.
Whilst the dust has barely settled from Presidential and Parliamentary elections in which security and defence issues were very largely absent from the debate, interested parties both within and outside France are already trying to discern the directions in which the new President and his senior team will steer France on these issues.
A Blueprint for Reform: The Case for a National Security StrategyCollaboration between departments must no longer be seen as an accessory of government in response to modern security challenges, but as necessity.
The UK's Risk Management Approach to National SecurityThis article examines the nature of the natural and non-state threats to the UK together with the tools employed to reduce the associated risks.
Falklands Logistics: Have We Learnt the Lessons and Could We Do it Again Today?This article revisits the logistical challenges of the Falklands campaign and examines what became of the recommendations made all those years ago.
Hope Deferred? The European Defence Agency after Three YearsAs the EDA’s third birthday approaches, relations between the UK and the agency have soured dramatically.
US-EU Differences in Nuclear Non-ProliferationBoth the US and EU agree on the substance of the threat from nuclear proliferation. However, there is divergence of the preferred means for ensuring non-proliferation.
EU at Fifty: Still Looking for LoveReflecting on the European Union's first fifty years, Sir Paul Lever considers the current challenges facing the European project.
After Admitting Failure on Iran, Will Europe Take the Gloves Off?A leaked EU report recognises that diplomatic efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons programme have failed. Member states must decide whether they can accept a nuclear Iran, and what can be done to stop its programme.
The Need for British Trilateral Diplomacy: China, the EU and the Transatlantic Alliance
In the UK, the European Union’s (EU) growing security ties with China receive relatively little attention. At the beginning of this year, however, China tested anti-satellite weaponry – a step that could, and from the British perspective should, provoke a sober consideration of the type of security relationship Europe should seek with the Chinese.
In the UK, the European Union’s (EU) growing security ties with China receive relatively little attention. At the beginning of this year, however, China tested anti-satellite weaponry – a step that could, and from the British perspective should, provoke a sober consideration of the type of security relationship Europe should seek with the Chinese.
NATO’s Summit: A Disappointment to the Alliance’s New Member States
NATO’s Riga summit finished with predictable compromise. But for the Central and East Europeans, the summit is now seen as a missed opportunity. None of their strategic challenges were fully addressed.
NATO’s Riga summit finished with predictable compromise. But for the Central and East Europeans, the summit is now seen as a missed opportunity. None of their strategic challenges were fully addressed.
Nordic-Baltic Challenges and the New Swedish GovernmentWill the new Government be a more active player in the European Union's European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)?
Future EU-Russia RelationsMoscow appears determined not to lose additional influence to the EU and NATO in the former Soviet republics
EU-Battlegroups: Some New Capabilities, ActuallyThe concept of the EU Battlegroup has developed with unusual speed and the somewhat unorthodox solutions to the multilateral arrangements for some of them are distinctly new.
European Effects: The EU’s Multidisciplinary Approach to SecurityWhat value does the EU bring as a global actor and what must it do to enhance its role further?
The European Defence Agency
There seems to be a widespread consensus in Europe that immediate action is required if European countries are not to fall irrevocably behind the United States in military terms.
There seems to be a widespread consensus in Europe that immediate action is required if European countries are not to fall irrevocably behind the United States in military terms.
Commentary
ESDP implications of the reform treatyThe European Security Programme looks into the implications of the upcoming Libson Treaty in the field of security and defence.
Galileo satellite navigation system off course?Will it end up in a blind alley?
French President Sarkozy visits RussiaAu revoir to old dreams of a 'Paris-Moscow axis'?
Putin remaining in powerRussian President Vladimir Putin appears to be further consolidating his power beyond his term as President. However, the security and stability such continuity would provide may, in fact, prove illusory.
Russia’s Government Reshuffle: Changing in order to Make No ChangePutin has appointed a prime-minister with no power-base, perhaps in order to maintain his own power when he leaves office.
The Legacy of Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin's legacy, although important, has created the problems which the world faces with Russia today. Yeltsin was a great man, who also left a great deal of problems.
A New Bundeswehr: From National Sensitivity to Expeditionary Capability
Kathleen Durkin analyses the new White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr (October 2006)
Kathleen Durkin analyses the new White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr (October 2006)
A Crime in France to Deny the Armenian Genocide: Pourquoi?
Zehra Dislioglu analyses the implications of the recent parliamentary vote in France on the Armenian 'genocide' bill (October 2006)
Zehra Dislioglu analyses the implications of the recent parliamentary vote in France on the Armenian 'genocide' bill (October 2006)
Whose finger will be on the EU Battlegroups’ trigger? Tim Williams
This article appeared in the Autumn 2006 issue of 'Europe's World'
This article appeared in the Autumn 2006 issue of 'Europe's World'
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