On Thursday 25 January, the CSCAP EU Committee convened for its fifth annual meeting in Brussels. The Committee held a workshop on arms exports, defence markets, and new dynamics in EU-Asia relations.
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CSCAP EU
CSCAP EU, under the leadership of the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), was admitted as a new member committee of 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
- Gustav Lindstrom, CSCAP EU Chair, Director, EUISS.
- Steven Everts, CSCAP EU Vice-Chair, Senior Advisor, Asia and the Pacific, EEAS.
- Gudrun Wacker, Senior Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
- François Godement, Director, Asia Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
- Eva Pejsova, CSCAP EU Coordinator, Senior Analyst, EUISS.
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29 June 2017
The fourth edition of the EUISS Security Monthly Stats (SMS) looks at the issue of food security and famines. What countries are most at risk? And how is the international community responding?
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07 June 2017Edited by Eva Pejsova, Guy BanimWith contributions from Bernt Berger, Jakob Bund, Matthieu Burnay, Marta Hermez, Stine Lehman-Larsen, Ingrid Magnusson, Garima Mohan, Gareth Price, May-Britt Stumbaum, Plamen Tonchev, Anouk van den Akker
This Report, which draws on the main presentations made during the 2016 CSCAP EU Committee meeting devoted to this topic, examines the role of the EU as a preventive diplomacy actor and explores how in pursuing this strategy it can contribute positively to security in the Indo-Pacific region.
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15 February 2017
China’s endeavour to establish new economic corridors in the region covered by the block’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy poses both opportunities and challenges. What are the best policy solutions to achieve synergy between European and Chinese projects in the region?
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15 February 2017
Four years after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the ‘New Silk Road’ initiative in 2013, the main thrust of the infrastructure projects has been in Asia. However, the Western Balkans is also becoming increasingly involved in related discussions and projects on its western end.
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15 February 2017
This Chaillot Paper sets out to evaluate the scope and the actual implementation of the ‘pivot to the East’ announced by Moscow in the wake of its confrontation with the West over Ukraine. The paper highlights the areas of convergence and divergence between Moscow and Beijing, the asymmetries in interests and resources, and their wider implications for Russia’s policy in Asia – thus providing an insightful and balanced assessment of bilateral relations and their ‘systemic’ impact.
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02 December 2016
On Friday, 2 December, the CSCAP EU Committee convened for its fourth annual meeting in Brussels. Following a briefing from EEAS officials on recent developments related to EU policy in Asia and a progress report on the implementation of the EU Global Strategy, the Committee held several workshop sessions on the EU’s preventive diplomacy in Asia.
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24 November 2016By Alice Ekman
China is increasingly engaged in a combination of investments and infrastructure development, forum-building and political messaging around the world with various sub-regional groupings of countries. Could this potentially challenge the role of the EU in Europe in the long term?
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24 November 2016
The EU and China have long sought to cooperate in and with Africa. Illegal migration to Europe, China’s growing commercial investments and terrorists looking for safe haven in Africa bind European, Chinese and African interests. The proliferation of these challenges beyond African borders is now driving the three parties closer together.
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09 November 2016
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.
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29 June 2017
The fourth edition of the EUISS Security Monthly Stats (SMS) looks at the issue of food security and famines. What countries are most at risk? And how is the international community responding?
-
07 June 2017Edited by Eva Pejsova, Guy BanimWith contributions from Bernt Berger, Jakob Bund, Matthieu Burnay, Marta Hermez, Stine Lehman-Larsen, Ingrid Magnusson, Garima Mohan, Gareth Price, May-Britt Stumbaum, Plamen Tonchev, Anouk van den Akker
This Report, which draws on the main presentations made during the 2016 CSCAP EU Committee meeting devoted to this topic, examines the role of the EU as a preventive diplomacy actor and explores how in pursuing this strategy it can contribute positively to security in the Indo-Pacific region.
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15 February 2017
China’s endeavour to establish new economic corridors in the region covered by the block’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy poses both opportunities and challenges. What are the best policy solutions to achieve synergy between European and Chinese projects in the region?
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15 February 2017
Four years after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the ‘New Silk Road’ initiative in 2013, the main thrust of the infrastructure projects has been in Asia. However, the Western Balkans is also becoming increasingly involved in related discussions and projects on its western end.
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15 February 2017
This Chaillot Paper sets out to evaluate the scope and the actual implementation of the ‘pivot to the East’ announced by Moscow in the wake of its confrontation with the West over Ukraine. The paper highlights the areas of convergence and divergence between Moscow and Beijing, the asymmetries in interests and resources, and their wider implications for Russia’s policy in Asia – thus providing an insightful and balanced assessment of bilateral relations and their ‘systemic’ impact.
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24 November 2016By Alice Ekman
China is increasingly engaged in a combination of investments and infrastructure development, forum-building and political messaging around the world with various sub-regional groupings of countries. Could this potentially challenge the role of the EU in Europe in the long term?
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24 November 2016
The EU and China have long sought to cooperate in and with Africa. Illegal migration to Europe, China’s growing commercial investments and terrorists looking for safe haven in Africa bind European, Chinese and African interests. The proliferation of these challenges beyond African borders is now driving the three parties closer together.
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09 November 2016
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.
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09 November 2016
Since lifting its historic ban on arms exports in April 2014, Japan has faced an obstacle-ridden path in becoming an arms exporter. This Alert explores the track record of transfers of Japanese military equipment in the past 18 months, and how the transfers contribute to Tokyo’s strategic ambition of becoming a fully-fledged security actor in the region, even at the expense of economic benefits.
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03 June 2016
For many years, Beijing left security engagement with Central Asia to Moscow and Washington. However, growing risks for Chinese personnel and investments are causing China to rethink its policy towards the region.
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25 January 2018
On Thursday 25 January, the CSCAP EU Committee convened for its fifth annual meeting in Brussels. The Committee held a workshop on arms exports, defence markets, and new dynamics in EU-Asia relations.
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02 December 2016
On Friday, 2 December, the CSCAP EU Committee convened for its fourth annual meeting in Brussels. Following a briefing from EEAS officials on recent developments related to EU policy in Asia and a progress report on the implementation of the EU Global Strategy, the Committee held several workshop sessions on the EU’s preventive diplomacy in Asia.