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EU support to African security architecture: funding and training components

03 February 2009

During the last few years, African countries have multiplied their efforts at consolidating regional integration and developing common mechanisms for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts. The African Peace and Security Architecture is an emerging set of norms, structures, capacities and procedures established to help the African Union carry out peace and security tasks. This paper analyses the EU’s support to this security architecture, focusing on financial and training aspects.

The European Security Strategy 2003-2008: building on common interests

01 February 2009

This report follows on from the series of seminars organised in 2008 by the EUISS on the European Security Strategy. It contributes to the debate on policy options generated by the December 2008 European Council, which put forward guidelines for the implementation of the Strategy in the coming years, and looks at how to increase the consistency and coherence of EU external action.

The end of European uniqueness?

21 January 2009

In this issue EUISS Director Álvaro de Vasconcelos welcomes the new moral authority based on respect for fundamental values that President Barack Obama brings to the United States. Damien Helly writes about Chad after EUFOR, the options for the follow-on UN mission there and their implications for the reputation of EU military missions. Also featured are reports from the Institute’s two major events of 2008, the Washington Forum and Annual Conference.

European perspectives on the new American foreign policy agenda

20 January 2009

This collaborative effort of the EUISS research team highlights what it considers to be the major political event of 2009: the election of President Barack Obama and the impact that the change in the American administration will have on the world. It covers the priority areas for US-EU cooperation of global governance, climate change, disarmament and non-proliferation, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and transatlantic relations.

Les conflits soudanais à l'horizon 2011 : scénarios

03 January 2009

Depuis son indépendance en 1955, le Soudan a été presque continuellement le théâtre de conflits sanglants. Si les événements du Darfour ont focalisé l’attention, le sud du pays est également un lieu de tensions entre le gouvernement de Khartoum et le Mouvement populaire de Libération du Soudan (MPLS). Certaines similitudes quant à l’origine des affrontements nous ont conduits à établir une corrélation entre ces deux zones.

CSDP Newsletter No.7

01 January 2009
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EULEX Kosovo is finally up and running after a long planning phase. It began operations on 9 December 2008 and has been breaking new ground for the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) as the EU's largest civilian mission.

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