What is a European Army, Anyway?
President Emmanuel Macron has poked the hornet’s nest, calling in a 6 November interview for a “real European Army”.
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Defence Cooperation
NATO‘s Northeast Quartet: Prospects and Opportunities for Baltic-Polish Defence Cooperation
In recent years, NATO has made good progress in strengthening deterrence and defence postures on its eastern flank, including establishing a rotational Allied land component presence in the Baltic states and Poland.
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Eastern Partnership and European Security
On 8-10 October, ICDS Head of Studies and Research Fellow Tomas Jermalavičius attended the high-level seminar “Eastern Partnership and European Security: Enhanced Cooperation to Overcome Common Challenges” which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Strategic Autonomy? France, the eFP and the EII
The enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Estonia will welcome its third French rotating contribution during 2019.
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Estonia Leaves UNIFIL
Estonia has announced that it will shortly discontinue its deployment of peacekeepers to the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.
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ICDS Research Fellows Contribute to the Baltic Sea Security Forum 2018
On 27 September, ICDS research fellows Tony Lawrence and Tomas Jermalavičius participated in the Baltic Sea Security Forum 2018.
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The 2018 Swedish Elections: Consequences for Defence and Security Policy
In some ways, the 2018 Swedish general parliamentary elections defied expectations. Despite intensive polling, few pollsters made even roughly correct predictions about the outcome. At the time of writing, though, the actual results are not quite all in.
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Behind the European Intervention Initiative: An Expeditionary Coalition of the Willing?
The landscape of European security and defence cooperation has become a busy one. Last year, 25 of the 28 EU Member States signed up to commit to Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), spurring a wide array of specific cooperation projects and investment pledges.
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Air Defence of the Baltic States
NATO’s air defence capability has declined over the past decades, a period during which the Allies have usually been able to operate assuming air superiority. Russia’s air power, by contrast, has grown in size and sophistication.
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The United States, Finland and Sweden: A Trilateral Statement of Defense Interest
On 8 May 2018, the Finnish and Swedish Ministers of Defense, Jussi Niinistö and Peter Hultqvist, met with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the Pentagon.
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