The Train of EU Defence Cooperation Moves on – End Station TBA
With much fanfare, 23 EU member states have now formally announced their commitment to ‘permanent structured cooperation’ (PESCO) in the field of defence.
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Prospects for European Defence and Security Co-Operation
On November 13 Henrik Praks spoke at the public discussion „Which Future for the European Defence and Security“ held in Riga.
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UK Proposes an Unprecedented Relationship with the EU in Defence
This week, the UK released a future partnership paper on foreign policy, defence and development, one of a series of papers intended to explore key issues setting out aspects of the government’s vision for a future “deep and special” partnership between the UK and the EU after Brexit.
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ICDS Video Chat: The Annual Baltic Conference on Defence
On September 6th the Annual Baltic Conference on Defence 2017 „European Defence Co-operation: Out of the Shadows?“ will take place in Tallinn.
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Building Capacity for the EU Global Strategy
A degraded security situation, the Brexit referendum and the election of a US President at best indifferent to European security matters have led the Member States to search for new security and defence solutions and for new ways to demonstrate European cohesion.
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A New Era of EU-NATO Cooperation: How to Make the Best of a Marriage of Necessity
The challenges confronting both the European Union and NATO today are severe and complex: e.g. terrorism, refugee and migration crisis, hybrid and cyber threats, and a Russia willing to break international law and other treaties and agreements, thus undermining the post-World War II international order.
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NORDEFCO: “Love in a Cold Climate”?
Nordic Defence Cooperation, or NORDEFCO, is a comprehensive framework of political and military cooperation, through which the five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, seek to enhance their operational capabilities and further strengthen national and regional stability and security. In short, as stated in the 2009 Memorandum of Understanding on which it is based, “the aim and purpose of NORDEFCO is to strengthen the participating nations’ national defense, explore common synergies and facilitate efficient common solutions.”
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ICDS Contributed to Nordic-Baltic Security Workshop
On 9 March, the Centre for Military Studies (CMS) of the University of Copenhagen organised and hosted a workshop on Nordic-Baltic security and defence cooperation.
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The Causes and Limitations of Swedish-Finnish Defence Cooperation
During the last few years, there has been a noticeable surge in bilateral and multilateral defence cooperation ventures among the Nordic states. The most well-known of these is NORDEFCO (Nordic Defence Cooperation). However, NORDEFCO is, essentially a framework for cooperation – it is not even a standalone organization , let alone a body resembling a political or military alliance.
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NATO’s Truly Enhanced Partnership
At the Wales Summit in September 2014, NATO introduced new initiatives to enhance the capacity of its various partners to work with the Alliance. In themselves, these initiatives were by no means novel. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has developed an extensive partnership program. The main tool for such cooperation, the Partnership for Peace program (PFP), was launched in 1994; from a humble beginning it has morphed into a network connecting the 28 Alliance members with more than 40 partners around the world.
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