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Enabling the future. European military capabilities 2013-2025

This report seeks to place European military capabilities in a broader perspective and demonstrate how the only way to safeguard common ‘strategic interests’ and counter potential risks is to do more together.

Belgrade-Pristina: un accord historique en perspective

Le récent accord du 19 avril représente une étape décisive pour les deux parties vers l’intégration européenne et confirme également l’importance de l’action de l’UE dans la région des Balkans occidentaux.

Strategic foresight - and the EU

In this brief, the EUISS Director digs deeper into the nature, practice and record of strategic foresight.

Chemical weapon use in Syria?

Given the recent allegation concerning the use of chemical weapons in Syria, how could the EU assist not only the potential victims of chemical attacks but also the process of eliminating all non-conventional weapons in the region?

The shale gas ‘revolution’: challenges and implications for the EU

The first of a newly redesigned series, this brief examines the recent boom in ‘unconventional’ oil and gas and assesses its impact on global energy markets, the fight against climate change and the global balance of power.

Good cop or bad cop? Sanctioning Belarus

This brief explores the attempts by the Union to conduct coercive diplomacy and enforce meaningful change in Europe’s ‘last dictatorship’.

Alerts und Briefs

  • Mali: the UN takes over

    On 25 April, the UN Security established MINUSMA to take over from the African-led mission (AFISMA) in Mali. This alert explores the possible impact of ‘robust peacekeeping’ in Mali and draws attention to the current application of an emerging template for inter-institutional cooperation in military crisis management.

  • Fighting piracy in the Gulf of Guinea - offshore and onshore

    Following a spectacular decline in the Gulf of Aden, incidents of armed robbery at sea and piracy are now on the rise in the Gulf of Guinea. Given the region's importance for the EU, are there lessons that can be learned and usefully transferred from Gulf to Gulf?

  • The Syria conference: last exit peace?

    On May 7, Russia and the US agreed to host a conference with an aim to settling the Syrian crisis. This alert examines the agenda, participants and potential ourcomes of meeting that may well lead to the implementation of a credible and lasting ceasefire.

Publikationen

  • How EU sanctions work: a new narrative

    This study, the first of a new, restyled series of Chaillot Papers, focuses on how EU sanctions – or restrictive measures - work by providing an analytical framework to evaluate their success. In addition, it presents recommendations on how to improve the sanctioning process and elaborates on the future role of what has arguably become the most important foreign policy tool of the EU in recent years.

  • The future of the CWC in the post-destruction phase

    Since the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1997, much progress has been made in destroying existing stockpiles of chemical weapons. However, the CWC is faced with new threats and challenges due to advances in science and technology and the changing international security, political and economic environment. On the eve of the Third Review Conference of the treaty, this report examines some of the most pressing challenges facing the CWC over the next decade.

  • Brussels - Beijing: changing the game?

    China is poised to become the EU’s most important commercial partner, while simultaneously being a serious challenger in trade and a competitor for resources. It is against the backdrop of this dichotomy that this report offers a number of suggestions to assist EU policymakers in developing a more coherent approach towards China.