EU crisis management; NATO emerging threats; CSDP and EU missions

NPT Review Conference; Civilian Contributions to Operations; Peace Report 2010; CSDP and EU mission updates

 EEAS; Spanish Presidency; Women in the Peace Process; NATO-EU Assets; CSDP and EU Missions Update

Disarmament, the 2010 NPT Review Conference, NATO and Arms Control, NATO-EU Cooperation; CSDP and EU Missions Update

Looking at: enacting the Lisbon Treaty for CSDP,setting up the EEAS, ESDP and the Swedish EU Presidency,CSDP logistics and NAMSA,EU and early warning,CSDP and EU mission updates.

Looking at: missile defence, Gender and SSR, US and nuclear policy, military capabilities, briefing notes on Palestine and SIPRI Yearbook Launch and ESDP and EU mission update

Published in Studia Diplomatica Vol. LXII nr. 2 

Looking at: SALW, WMD, Peace Report, Czech Presidency, ESDP update

Looking at: NATO and nuclear arms; civ-mil convergence; children´s security; control of SALW; NATO Shadow Summit; gender and SSR training; INEF Peace book launch; SIPRI book on dual-use goods; EP updates and ESDP and EU mission update

Looking at: Civilian capabilities in ESDP; Kosovo, Afghanistan, Brazil and ESDP and EU mission update

Looking at: : ESS review; Peace operations; NATO Watch; Fragile states; European Civil Protection Force; EP updates December 2008; EUFOR Chad/CAR; EUNAVFOR Somalia and ESDP and EU mission update.

Looking at: new threats; Guinea-Bissau; France and nuclear; ESDP in DRC and Kosovo; EUPM and EP updates September and October 2008. Also events in December: launch of book on peace operations and PSE conference on peace and disarmament. 

Looking at: changing perceptions on security; the French White Paper on Defence; an EU caucus in NATO; civilian exemptions from the Nuclear Suppliers Group; climate change and security and EP updates July 2008. Also events in October on: control of SALW; and 1325/1820 in ESDP missions.

Looking at: Battle Groups; Responsibility to Protect; EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports; 5 years of ESDP in Action; ESDP Mission Update (including tables and charts); European Parliamentary Update June 2008; R2P and POC event and Council ESDP Handbook Launch.

Looking at: Kosovo SSR implementation; EUSSR in Guinea-Bissau; EU surveying the EU - The Future of Europe; European Parliamentary Update March 2008; European Parliamentary Update May 2008; ISIS-DCAF joint report; Launch of the gender and SSR toolkit

Looking at: EUFOR Tchad/RCA mission; The Lisbon Treaty on the CFSP and ESDP; European security in 2020; European Parliamentary Update January 2008; European Parliamentary Update December 2007.

Looking at: Studies for the European Parliament; Liberal Interventionism - time to get real; Parliamentary Update October 2007; Parliamentary Update November 2007; ESDP and EU Mission Update (including tables and charts).

Looking at: Revising the European Security Strategy - Building a secure Europe in a better world; Sarkozy's Brave New World - France's foreing security and defense policy; Engaging Fragile Situations: Sudan; Chad: civilan-military and humanitarian intervention;European Parliamentary Updates July and September 2007

Looking at: European Security Roundup ( The New Treaty, Merkel, Sarkozy and Brown; UK on Nuclear Weapons; Cluster Bombs); The importance of Gender in ESDP; The Prum Process: playing or abusing the system?; Parliamentary Update June 2007.

Looking at: Defending Europe from Missile Attack; Waiting in the Wings - The civilian ESDP mission in Kosovo; EUPOL Afghanistan - an opportunity for whom?; Parliamentary Update March; Parliamentary Update May.

Guardian Online 
Serious focus should now be trained upon Britain's nuclear doctrine - particularly the circumstances in which Trident might actually be used. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/15/whenwouldgordonpushthebut

Parliamentary Brief UK, Vol. 11 No. 2.
With attention focused on Iraq and Iran, the news that North Korea,the third member of President Bush’s infamous ‘axis of evil’ had struck a deal on February 8 over its nuclear programme, came as a plesant surprise...

Looking at: Decision time for Iran; The role of the German Presidency in promoting ESDP; Creating civil society dialogue in Somalia; EUFOR RD Congo: a preliminary assessment; Parliamentary Update January.

Letter to the Financial Times - Stephen Pullinger argues that Mr Brown should begin to take practical steps towards denuclearisation.

Looking at: Why Europe should care about Britain's Trident; Stopping North Korea's nuclear programme: an active role for the EU; EU Battle Groups 2007: where next?; Security Sector Reform: from Concept to Practice; Aceh Peace Process - Update

Letter to Europe's World - "EU's common security culture"

Looking at: UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon: Europe's contribution; Tackling the new terrorism in the EU; Strengthening European support for an Arms Trade Treaty; Gender and Security; Update on Iran nuclear crisis. 

Looking at: The EU's changing role in Kosovo; A New EU Mission to Kosovo : Political Context; Community safety in Kosovo : Lessons learned; Future of ESDP: Lessons from Bosnia.

Looking at: Nuclear Crisis in Iran; Building Security in the Palestinian Territories; Developing an EU strategy for Security Sector Reform; Update: Aceh Monitoring Mission.

Looking at: WMD: Matching Budgets to Threats; Aceh Monitoring Mission: a new challenge for ESDP; The EU's Africa Strategy: from Words to Action; Re-thinking NATO's engagement in Afghanistan; Solana's annual speech on CFSP: the Agenda for 2006.

Looking at: Does internal EU paralysis threaten external action? ; Supporting the African Union in Darfur: a test for the EU-NATO partnership; Towards an EU Action Plan on State Failure?; The Stability Instrument: defining the Commission's role in crisis response.

Looking at: Training civilians and soldiers to improve security in Iraq: an update of EU and NATO efforts; EUPOL "Kinshasa": testing EU co-ordination, coherence and commitment to Africa; EU Civilian Crisis Management: preparing for flexible and rapid response; The EU Strategy against the proliferation of WMD: past, present and future; Taking Serious Crime Seriously? The EU's fight against terrorism one year after Madrid; ESR News In Brief ( a NATO force in Israel/Palestine- EU mission in the Caucasus- EUFOR in BiH- Darfur: assistance to the AU).

Looking at: NATO To Set Up a Training Centre in Iraq; ESDP takes over from NATO: Operation ALTHEA, coherent, effective and democratically accountable?; CFSP and ESDP State of Play Under the Dutch Presidency; EU Community Budget 2007-13: External Relations; The African Peace Facility Uncovered: Better late than never?; ESR News In Brief (The European Security Research Programme- The opening of the defence market- a White Paper for the European Defence).

Looking at: EUFOR Mission for Bosnia by the end of 2004; Follow up to the European Security Strategy: Effective Multilateralism; Implementing the defence aspects of the European Security Strategy: the Headline Goal 2010; Developing the civilian dimension of conflict prevention and ESDP; Another first for ESDP: The Rule of Law Mission to Georgia; New EU Principles on the use of sanctions: from symbolism to effectiveness?; ESR News In Brief (Dutch Presidency programme; Solana the first EU Foreign Minister; The EU-Mediterranean/Middle East Strategic Partnership).

Looking at:"Battle Groups" to strengthen EU military crisis management?; Building a European intelligence community in response to terrorism; The Dublin Conflict Prevention Action Agenda; The Commission moves into defence research; The Commission moves into defence research; ESR News In Brief (The EU-Mediterranean/Middle East Strategic Partnership-EU mission in Sudan; Italian Gen. Mosca Moschini appointed as second Chief of the EU Military Committee).