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The Real Roots of Germany's Defense Spending Problem

Date de publication
24 July 2018
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The 1970s were a decade of anti-war movements. Willy Brandt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his détente policy toward the Eastern Bloc – and West German defense spending peaked at 3.13 percent of GDP in 1975. Clearly, those days are long gone.

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The Three Dimensions of Europe's Defense Debate

Date de publication
21 June 2018
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In light of transatlantic tensions and a deteriorated security environment, European security affairs are at the crossroads. 

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Preserving defence partnerships with US and UK is a key interest for France.

03 June 2018
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Nicolas Sarkozy used to promote himself as a transatlanticist or anglophile French president. Emmanuel Macron seems to have taken this approach a step further. Macron appears to have taken upon France and himself the responsibility of not allowing Britain and more importantly, the United States to drift too far away from Europe. Is he succeeding in this?

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Washington Should Help Europe Achieve 'Strategic Autonomy', Not Fight It

Date de publication
12 April 2018
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In 2016, the European Union issued its Global Strategy, the Union’s latest foreign and security policy strategy document. The strategy “nurtures the ambition of strategic autonomy for the European Union”. American policymakers’ feelings about these aspirations are, to say the least, mixed. Several U.S. officials have expressed fear that a strategically autonomous Europe would be detrimental to the transatlantic alliance.

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The NPT and the Origins of NATO’s Nuclear Sharing Arrangements

Date de publication
07 February 2017
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Russia has recently accused the United States and NATO Allies of violating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) by arguing that NATO's nuclear sharing arrangements are not permitted under the Treaty.

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European Security – Challenges at the Societal Level

Date de publication
08 December 2016
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Relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated dramatically in recent years. The institutional foundations of cooperative security in Europe and the rules and principles they represent are rapidly disappearing. 

Barbara KUNZ Wolfgang ZELLNER Irina CHERNYKH Alain DELETROZ Frank EVERS Christian NÜNLIST Philip REMLER Oleksiy SEMENIY Andrei ZAGORSKI

Brexit: What Happened? What is Going to Happen?

Date de publication
01 December 2016
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The Brexit referendum demonstrated the fundamental reticence of the British to embrace the ethos underpinning the European construction, the powerlessness of politicians to explain it clearly to the public, the particular difficulties of the main political parties involved, as well as the development of a specifically English nationalist sentiment.

Jolyon HOWORTH Vivien SCHMIDT
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Semi-Mutual Defense: Europe’s Patchwork Response to Paris Attacks

09 December 2015
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The offer of active military support to France in Syria or in the Sahel by several European member states is likely to overshadow the absence of meaningful commitment from others. On balance, the picture will not be too disheartening for supporters of the EU: its foreign and security policy apparatus will not come out damaged, but only because it has not been properly tested.

 

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The German OSCE Chairmanship in 2016: Towards a renewed dialogue with Russia?

Date de publication
23 November 2015
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) represents the perfect framework for discussion of pan-European security issues thanks to its unique composition - fifty-seven member states of the Euro-Atlantic sphere, including the United States and Russia. The OSCE remains indeed one of the few forums of institutionalized dialogue between Western countries and Moscow and the only one to also include Washington. 

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