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The EU-China-Africa triangle

Illegal migration to Europe, China’s growing commercial investments and terrorists looking for safe haven in Africa bind European, Chinese and African interests. This Alert looks at how these challenges are driving cooperation.

China's regional forum diplomacy

China is increasingly engaged in a combination of investments and infrastructure development, forum-building around the world. Could this potentially challenge the role of the EU itself in Europe in the long term?

The military and the machine

This Alert focuses on the non-lethal applications of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, and how they might impact military capabilities and alter command structures down the road.

EU defence research in development

This Alert takes a look at some of the pilot projects being launched by the EU to deliver tangible results on security and defence.

Making Europe and Europeans safer

In this Alert, the EUISS Director looks at how the EU Global Strategy offers a new perspective for the EU Security and Defence Implementation Plan (SDIP).

Civ-mil relations in the MENA: between fragility and resilience

This Chaillot Paper examines the flaws and failures that have so far prevented a more functional and balanced relationship between civilian and military authorities in the Middle East and North Africa.

Strategic communications – East and South

This Report analyses the respective narratives of Russia and Daesh, their specificities, their few similarities and their numerous differences. The analysis also draws attention to strategic communications efforts undertaken by the EU.

Briefs

  • Civilian CSDP: what next?

    Civilian CSDP missions were downsized in 2016, paradoxically at a time when security needs are growing – with threats largely of a non-military nature. This Brief shows how these changes call for renewed investment in civilian CSDP so that it can find its place in the evolving global crisis management architecture.

  • Managing migration abroad – Why, where, what and how?

    Because of the intertwining of internal and external security matters, the EU’s model of dealing with crisis is being challenged. This Brief looks at how integrating different approaches and distinct practises across the EU may come to represent the key change for policymakers.

  • Cybersecurity and democracy – Hacking, leaking and voting

    As they enter a period of critical elections, the US and European countries are being confronted by a series of threats from cyberspace. Electronic voting infrastructure and networks of political groups have recorded repeated intrusion, while strategic leaks of compromising documents have sought to influence public opinion.

Publications

  • Prospects for EU-India security cooperation

    This report is the result of a closed-door workshop and a public conference on 'Prospects for EU–India Security Cooperation' held in September 2016 in New Delhi by Chatham House, the EU Institute for Security Studies, and the Observer Research Foundation. It explores the scope for EU-India engagement on three major security issues: West Asia (Middle East), maritime security, and counter-terrorism and radicalisation.

  • After the EU Global Strategy – Consulting the experts – Security and defence

    This volume presents a compilation of memos following the EUISS workshop on the Security and Defence Implementation Plan (SDIP), in which leading experts and analysts outline their preferred level of ambition and priority areas for EU security and defence.

  • Civil-military relations in the MENA: between fragility and resilience

    This Chaillot Paper examines the flaws and failures that have so far impeded a more functional and balanced relationship between civilian and military authorities in the Middle East and North Africa. The paper also highlights the importance of security sector reform (SSR) in consolidating the rule of law and, more generally, sustainable systems of governance.