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Written by Marcin Grajewski,
The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) aims to ensure an appropriate role for the Union in peace-keeping operations, conflict prevention and in the strengthening of international security. It is an integral part of the EU’s comprehensive approach towards crisis management, drawing on civilian and military assets. Now its importance is rising because of the increasingly uncertain strategic environment. For years, the EU has been considered as an economic powerhouse but militarily weak, and it is currently debating whether and how to enhance its defence capabilities, notably because of the growing complexity of transatlantic security relations. The new European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, is determined to expand the EU’s international role, calling her Commission ‘geopolitical’.
This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from international think tanks on the state of the future of the EU’s foreign, security and defence policy.
What EU geopolitical power will cost
Centre for European Policy Studies, December 2019
The EU as a maritime security provider
European Union Institute for Security Studies, December 2019
Differentiated integration within PESCO: Clusters and convergence in EU defence
Centre for European Policy Studies, December 2019
On European power
Istituto Affari Internazionali, December 2019
From global strategy to strategic compass: Where is the EU heading?
Egmont, December 2019
Strategic investment: Making geopolitical sense of the EU’s defence industrial policy
European Union Institute for Security Studies, December 2019
How can the EU learn the language of power?
Chatham House, December 2019
Europe’s coherence gap in external crisis and conflict management
Centre for European Policy Studies, December 2019
Putting the core at the centre: The crisis response operation core (CROC) and the future of PESCO
Egmont, December 2019
Europe´s coherence gap in external crisis and conflict management: The EU’s integrated approach between political rhetoric and institutional practice
Bertelsmann Stiftung, November 2019
Towards a European Security Council?
Centre for European Reform, November 2019
EU-NATO cooperation in an era of great power competition
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, November 2019
Towards a more capable European Union civilian CSDP
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, November 2019
Towards a more gender-balanced European Union CSDP
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, November 2019
EU-U.S. consensus and NATO-EU cooperation
Egmont, November 2019
Gaming the new security nexus
Clingendael, November 2019
Transatlantic relations: Past, present and future
College of Europe, November 2019
EU defense cooperation: Progress amid transatlantic concerns
Carnegie Europe, November 2019
Trump, NATO leaders converge in London: What to watch
German Marshall Fund, November 2019
Can the European Commission develop Europe’s defence industry?
Centre for European Reform, November 2019
New perspectives on shared security: NATO’s next 70 years
Carnegie Europe, November 2019
The militarization of US foreign policy: Engagement with Europe increasingly about defense
Finnish Institute of International Affairs, November 2019
What does it mean to be a European defence company today?
Institut français des relations internationales, November 2019
Rethinking European security
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, October 2019
Mutual reinforcement: CSDP and NATO in the face of rising challenges
Institut français des relations internationales, October 2019
Der vernetzte Krieg. Warum moderne Streitkräfte von elektronischer Kampfführung abhängen
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, October 2019
The first year of the compact: How the review process can make civilian CSDP more capable
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, October 2019
NATO’s futures through Russian and Chinese beholders’ eyes
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, October 2019
EU watch list 2019: Third update
International Crisis Group, October 2019
Articulating the logic of nuclear-sharing
Institute for European Studies, October 2019
The European intervention initiative: Developing a shared strategic culture for European defence
Clingendael, September 2019
Democratization first: The community method in CFSP as a precondition for a European defence policy
Institut français des relations internationales, September 2019
New beginnings: Bolstering EU Foreign and Security Policy in times of contestation
Notre Europe, September 2019
European security 2030
LSE Ideas, Dahrendorf Forum, Mercator Stiftung, September 2019
Up in arms: Warring over Europe´s arms export regime
Centre for European Reform, September 2019
Give the people what they want: Popular demand for a strong European foreign policy
European Council on Foreign Relations, September 2019
European security in crisis: What to expect if the US withdraws from NATO
International Institute for Strategic Studies, Körber Stiftung, September 2019
The EU and NATO
European Union Institute for Security Studies, August 2019
An attack against them all? Drivers of decisions to contribute to NATO collective defense
Rand Corporation, August 2019
From plaything to player: How Europe can stand up for itself in the next five years
European Council on Foreign Relations, July 2019
Military mobility and the EU-NATO conundrum
Clingendael, July 2019
Strategic autonomy for European choices: The key to Europe’s shaping power
European Policy Centre, July 2019
The end of the INF-Treaty: Context and consequences
Egmont, July 2019
Strategic sovereignty: How Europe can regain the capacity to act
European Council on Foreign Relations, June 2019
Towards an EU security community? Public opinion and the EU’s role as a security actor
Finnish Institute of International Affairs, June 2019
The EU’s security Union: A bill of health
Centre for European Reform, June 2019
Moving PeSCo forward: What are the next steps?
Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, May 2019
The future of EU civilian crisis management: Finding a niche
Finnish Institute of International Affairs, May 2019
Together forever? Alliances in times of foreign policy uncertainty
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, May 2919
NATO at seventy: Filling NATO’s critical defence-capability gaps
Atlantic Council, April 2019
NATO at 70: From triumph to tumult?
German Marshal Fund, April 2019
Open door: NATO and Euro-Atlantic security after the cold war
Center for trans-Atlantic Relations, April 2019
Europe in the midst of China-US strategic competition: What are the European Union’s options?
Bruegel, April 2019
Russian ground forces posture towards the West
Chatham House, April 2019
NATO anniversary: Will there be another 70 years?
Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 2019
The European Defense Fund: Key issues and controversies
Carnegie Europe, March 2019
A more strategic approach towards CSDP partnerships
Jacques Delors Institute, March 2019
EU it yourself: A blueprint for a European Security Council
Wilfried Martens Centre, March 2019
Digital infantry battlefield solution. Research and innovation
Latvian Institute for International Affairs, March 2019
Allein oder im Verbund? Allianzen in Zeiten außenpolitischer Unsicherheit
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, March 2019
Interregnum
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, March 2019
Joining forces: The way towards the European Defence Union
European Political Strategy Centre, February 2019
Security radar 2019: Wake-up call for Europe!
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, February 2019
Are PESCO projects fit for purpose?
International Institute for Strategic Studies, European Leadership Network, February 2019
Strategische Autonomie Europas
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, February 2019
The Aachen mutual defence clause: A closer look at the Franco-German treaty
Egmont, February 2019
What’s in the CARDs?
Egmont, February 2019
Hybrid conflicts: The new normal?
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, January 2019
Fighting for Europe: European strategic autonomy and the use of force
Egmont, January 2019
A European Security Council: Added value for EU foreign and security policy?
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, January 2019
Opportunities for European collaboration in armoured vehicles
Rand Europe, January 2019
‘Fort Trump’ or bust? Poland and the future of European defence
Friends of Europe, January 2019
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