by Lorenzo Giuglietti | May 20, 2021 | Great Power Politics, International Organisations, Policy Brief
Executive Summary The European The European Union’s Permanent and Structured Cooperation (PESCO) understandably captures the attention of policymakers and experts due to the engagements member states committed to and the consequences for the EU’s defence architecture...
by MENA Task Force | Dec 18, 2020 | International Organisations, Policy Brief
NATO-Turkey Relations in a Turbulent Environment: The Military Dimension of NATO-Turkey Relations NATO-Turkey Relations Policy Brief-Beyond the Horizon ISSG by Samet Coban*, Furkan Akar** DECEMBER 2020 | 12 min read For understanding NATO-Turkey relations:...
by Saban Yuksel | Aug 25, 2020 | Great Power Politics, International Organisations, Research
Introduction EUFOR RCA was the EU’s military operation in the Central African Republic[1], launched on 1 April 2014. The EU started to search for partners from the very beginning and cooperated with the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU) and the selected third...
by Steven Blockmans* | Jan 9, 2020 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
Thank you very much for having me via video-link. Congratulations to the friends at Beyond the Horizon for mounting this impressive conference. I apologise for not being able to join you in person and would like to thank the organisers for allowing me to beam in from...
by Arnout Molenaar* | Nov 29, 2019 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
We had a lot of development on defense over the last two years. In 2016, the security environment changed, the strategic context was changed and of course the political context with Brexit was changed. It was like the perfect storm and it came together around the...
by Elena Lazarou* | Nov 28, 2019 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
Thank you very much. I have to say that I will not provide an institutional point of view from the European Parliament but a research point of view. When I was asked to speak about the implications of PESCO for the transatlantic defence industry, my first reaction was...