Currently, the prospects for Turkey's EU membership do not look very bright. With key chapters for negotiation already suspended, the government is likely to resume a loose Europeanization agenda. The counterpart of this in the foreign-policy realm is an approach based on 'soft Euro-asianism'....

This report examines how and to what extent national action plans (NAPs) are a useful tool for fostering local ownership of the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. Focusing on three case countries, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali, the report interrogates different actions that can generate...

I sommeren 2009 besluttede NATO-landenes forsvarsministre at ændre grundlæggende på Alliancens hurtige udrykningsstyrke - the NATO Response Force (NRF'en). Omstillingen er planlagt til at være fuldt implementeret allerede i juli 2010. Symptomatisk for de betydelige problemer, som har plaget...

In this DIIS Report, Trine Flockhart (editor) brings together security researchers and practitioners with in-depth expertise on NATO and NATO's partnerships. The aim is to focus on NATO's new partnership policy and on the role and meaning of the new concept, 'cooperative security'. Overall the...

For the past decade peace and security in East Africa have gained increasing focus internationally. The region has experienced armed conflicts, civil wars, rebellion, drought and famine. Yet, at the same time, there is also an emerging ambition among a number of African states to handle security...

What connects Chinas to the challenges of separatism in Balochistan? Why is India important when it comes to water shortages in Pakistan? How does jihadism in Punjab an Sindh differ from religious militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)? Why do Iran and Saudi Arabia matter...

The divided Korean peninsula is a flashpoint in the regional security complex in East Asia. The central issue is the threat posed by North Korea and how to meet it. After a review of North Korea as an international actor and of two important incidents in 2010 (the sinking of the South Korean...

India currently has 21 nuclear power reactors in operation, generating around three percent of the country’s total electricity. To meet the increasing demands of a rising economy, India is expanding its nuclear energy grid from today's 5780 MW of energy to generate 20,000MWe by 2020. While the...

In this new report DIIS researchers Yang Jiang and Lars Erslev Andersen explore the changing strategic roles of the USA and China in the Persian Gulf region, in particular in view of US (mis)handling of local conflicts and China's expanding economic interest there, in order to identify the...

This DIIS Report provides an overview of the political and military issues that are likely to shape the coming discussions about NATO's new Strategic Concept. NATO's current Strategic Concept dates back to 1999 and over the last couple years an increasing number of policy-makers have suggested...