EFSPS - military capabilities

People

The listed members of the EFSPS program have a deep understanding in the area of military capabilities

Projects

The following projects by EFSPS members are in the context of military capabilities

A 'force for good in the world'? Europe and the use of armed force after 9/11 by Aleksandra Dier

In spite of the sustained effort since the late 1990s to deepen integration in security and defence policy, military interventions continue to provoke different policy responses across Europe and incite ... read more

Enhancing ESDP on the Ground. Towards a Differentiated Strategy for Plausible Scenarios of Military Intervention by Maximilian Bornefeld-Ettmann

The EU and its ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) have assumed increasing responsibility for stability generating measures in post-conflict societies such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. EU- and NATO-led ... read more

France, Germany and the United Kingdom: Why commit to the further development of a European Security by Claudia Major

The project will analyse the emergence and development of distinctive structures of European governance for security and defence policy, alongside a concomitant insistence on the prevalence and primacy of national ... read more

Old Continent, New Wars: The ESDP Military Operations and International Humanitarian Law by Valentina Falco

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Towards a European Security and Military Strategy? by Christian Mölling

The growing importance of the European Union’s (EU) approach to security and military affairs also empha-sizes the relevance and need for an overarching European strategy informing and coordinating the different ... read more

Publications

Several publications by EFSPS members are in the area of military capabilities

• Dickow, Marcel (2010): Rüstungskooperation 2.0 - Notwendige Lehren aus dem A400M-Projekt, SWP-Aktuell 2010/A 36, April 2010, 4 Seiten
• Dier, Aleksandra (2010): To Draft or Not to Draft? Conscription Reform in the EU, CSS Analyses, ETH Zurich, June 2010
• Mölling, Christian / Major, Claudia (2009): Brothers in Arms? Nato Response Force and EU Battlegroups,
• Dier, Aleksandra (2009): British Defence Policy at a Crossroads: East of Suez Revisited?, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, ETH Zurich, No. 64, November 2009
• Mölling, Christian (2008): Schnelle militärische Krisenreaktion in der EU: Battlegroups und wie weiter? , in: M. Staack/ F. Algieri/ S. Lang (eds.): Militärische Aspekte der ESVP im Lichte der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft, Bremen, forthcoming.
• Dier, Aleksandra (2008): Polish Defence Policy under the New Government: the First 100 Days, SWP Comments
• Navarro, Luis Simon (2008): Sarkozy’s Dilemmas, the Forthcoming French EU Presidency and ESDP: What’s in it for Europe?, ARI Real Instituto Elcano
• Mölling, Christian (2008): Permanent Structured Cooperation, In: European Parliament(ed.) 2008: The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on ESDP - Workshop Summary: 9-13
• Mölling, Christian (2008): Options for a Regime on Intra European Transfers of Defence Items., In: D. Keohane: Opening Europe's Defence Market. Chaillot 112, Paris, EU ISS, forthcoming 2008
• Mölling, Christian (2008): ationale Fähigkeitenentwicklung und die Rolle internationaler Organisationen., In: A. Wenger, V. Mauer, D. Trachlser (ed.): Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik 2008, Zürich 2008: 89-122.
• Mölling, Christian (2008): The European Armaments Sector: The Need for the State to adapt., In: CSS Analyses in Security Policy, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, vol. 3 no. 31, 2008
• Mölling, Christian (2008): ESDP After Lisbon: More Coherent and Capable?, In: CSS Analyses in Security Policy, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, vol. 3 no. 28, 2008
• Oikonomou, Iraklis (2008): ‘Why is there no European defence?’, Monthly Review (Greek edition), No. 42, June 2008, pp. 117-119
• Mölling, Christian (2007): EU–Battlegroups. Stand und Probleme der Umsetzung in Deutschland und für die EU, SWP Diskussionspapier, März 2007
• Reynolds, Christopher (2007): Military Capability Development in the ESDP: Towards Effective Governance?, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 28, No. 2, August 2007.
• Mölling, Christian (2007): NATO and EU Rapid Reaction forces, In CSS Analyses in Security Policy, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, vol. 2 no. 21, 2007.
• Major, Claudia (2007): It’s a long way to … regional strategic actorness. Assessing the EU’s ongoing (r)evolution in strategic and regional affairs, in K. Brockmann and B. Hauck (eds): Security in a Globalized World: Towards Regional Cooperation and Strategic Partnerships, Berlin: DGAP, 2007, pp: 19-32
• Major, Claudia / Mölling, Christian (2007): Sarkozy’s Brave New World: France’s foreign security and defence policy, European Security Review, 35: 5-8
• Mölling, Christian (2006): EU Battle Groups 2007 – where next? , in: European Security Review No. 31, December 2006: 7-10.
• Catalina Perdomo (2005): "CBMs in Latin America and the Effect of Arms Acquisitions by Venezuela", Real Instituto Elcano Working Paper