The study overviews the pertinent key issues related to understanding the European Union (EU) Crisis Management debate in the context of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), examines relevant military equipment and capabilities, and provides guidance on where capability shortfalls...

At the December 2003 European Council, EU Heads of State and Government adopted a European Security Strategy, with a view to assisting necessary prioritisation and further elaboration of EU foreign policy activities. The Strategy document identifies the key security challenges facing Europe in...

The European Union has successfully completed its enlargement to Central Eastern Europe. By 2007, almost all former Warsaw Pact “allies” of the ex-Soviet Union will be fully integrated in the EU. The enforced EU is now determined to define and structure its common foreign and defence policy....

The challenge of terrorism is urgent, yet complex and uncertain. It is against this difficult background that the European Union and its 27 Member States have sought to co-ordinate and implement effective counter-terrorism policies. This study asks how the EU can forge a useful and durable link...

Legislative oversight of executive decisions to deploy (particularly) troops abroad is seen as a key agent of democratic legitimacy. However, parliamentary scrutiny of ESDP is at present deficient. The combination of supranational and intergovernmental elements that comprise the EU make for an...

In 2007 the EU member states inaugurated a European Defence Technological and Industrial Base strategy. The gradual integration of national DTIB should lead to selfsufficiency for security of supply – but on a European rather than national level. A better co-ordinated, less duplicative defence...