Policy Paper
The European Security Conundrum: Prospects for ESDP after September 11, 2001
Since December 1998, the debates about the future configuration of security and defence arrangements for the old continent have produced more progress towards a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) than in the previous fifty years. That progress was galvanised by the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
Since the closing years of the Cold War, European member states and their transatlantic allies have been involved in vigorous debates about the future configuration of security and defence arrangements for the old continent. Since December 1998, these debates have produced more progress towards a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) than in the previous fifty years. That progress was galvanised by the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The debate has essentially turned around three inter-related challenges emerging from the end of the Cold War.
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How to introduce security and defence policy issues into the European Union as prescribed by the Maastricht Treaty.
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How to maximise European security and defence autonomy in terms of both political decision-making and military capacity.
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How to retain US commitment to European security through a restructured Atlantic Alliance guaranteeing Euro-Atlantic complementarity rather than contradiction.
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ON THE SAME THEME
PUBLICATIONS
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War mongers and peace makers
MÉDIAS
MEDIAS
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ÉVÉNEMENTS
EVENTS
Euroquestions #67 | European defence in the face of war in Ukraine [FR]
Académie Notre Europe | Session in Brussels [FR]
Euroquestions 56 | How can the European Union arm Ukraine?
Euroquestions #55 | European foreign and defense policy tested by the war in Ukraine [FR]
Euroquestions | Franco-German relations: 2023, year of recovery? [FR]
Euroquestions | Is war in Ukraine putting cybersecurity at risk in Europe?
Euroquestions | War in Ukraine : the European Union’s response, beyond sanctions [FR]
EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY AND THE UNION’S EXTERNAL ACTION [FR]
Académie Notre Europe – L’Europe Commerciale et de la Défense
Copenhagen, 16 September 2019 – Prospects and Challenges in European Security
Lille, 25 octobre 2018 – Europe of defense in a world of bullies
Blois, 12 October 2018 – Cooperation, competition or war? Globalization in all its States
