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CSCAP EU

Under the leadership of the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), CSCAP EU was admitted as a new member committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), by unanimous decision at the 40th Steering committee meeting in Beijing, on 2 December 2013. Its role is to actively contribute to CSCAP activities by providing the best European expertise on key regional security issues.

The CSCAP EU committee is composed of more than 60 experts from leading European universities, government-affiliated and non-governmental research institutions, as well as relevant officials from the European External Action Service (EEAS) acting in their private capacities. Coming from various professional and geographical backgrounds, the committee serves as a collaborative platform for European scholars and policy practitioners focusing on security issues in the Asia-Pacific.

About CSCAP

Established in 1992-1993, the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific has been widely regarded as the premier multilateral non-governmental ('Track Two') organisation promoting security dialogue and confidence building in the region.

Today, CSCAP consists of 21 full members (Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, DPR Korea, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, United States of America and Vietnam) and one associate member (Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat). 

The functions of CSCAP are to:

  • Provide an informal mechanism by which political and security issues can be discussed by scholars, officials, and others in their private capacities;

  • Encourage the participation of such individuals from countries and territories in the Asia Pacific on the basis of the principle of inclusiveness;

  • Organise various study groups to address security issues and challenges facing the region;to provide policy recommendations to various intergovernmental bodies on political-security issues;

  • Convene regional and international meetings and other cooperative activities for the purpose of discussing political-security issues;

  • Establish linkages with institutions and organisations in other parts of the world to exchange information, insights and experiences in the area of regional political-security cooperation; and

  • Produce and disseminate publications relevant to the other purposes of the organisation.The primary mechanisms of CSCAP are its experts’ Study Groups, initiated by the member committees to address concrete regional security issues.

Memoranda produced by the various Study Groups aim to provide policy recommendations for existing inter-governmental regional mechanisms, notably the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), but also potentially the ASEAN Defence Ministerial Meeting Plus (ADMM+) and the East Asia Summit.

For more information, please see the CSCAP homepage.

CSCAP EU Committee

  • Alice Ekman, CSCAP EU Coordinator, Senior Analyst – Asia portfolio, EUISS

  • Steven Everts, CSCAP EU Chair, Director, EUISS

  • Ramon Pacheco Pardo, KF-VUB Korea Chair, Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Professor of International Relations, King's College London

  • Eva Pejsova, Japan Chair, Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • May-Britt Stumbaum, Professor of Security Studies and Strategic Competition, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

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    01December 2004
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    L'intervention militaire en Afghanistan d'octobre 2001 a été déterminée uniquement par les attentats du 11 septembre. L'Etat ne peut se reconstruire qu'à partir de la culture politique afghane : il faut pour cela inscrire les réformes dans un cadre idéologiquement légitime (nationalisme, islam), tout en s'adaptant à l'anthropologie politique de l'Afghanistan, où notables et groupes de solidarité locaux jouent un rôle plus important que les grandes tribus ou les ethnies.

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