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EU-Russia Relations, Toward a Way out of Depression (pdf)
EU - Russia relations: A period of stagnation (2003–2006), followed by a period of depression (2006-present)...
Get involved over Georgia or invite a war
"The west could be sleepwalking into a war on the European continent. Georgia, which burst into view with a moving display of democratic ambition during the Rose Revolution of 2003, is teetering on the brink of war with Russia over the separatist Georgian enclave of Abkhazia. The outcome of this crisis - involving a fledgling democracy with aspirations to join Nato and the European Union - will help determine the rules of the post-cold-war security system. But western diplomats are not sending strong enough signals to either side."
Is Europe doing any good in Chad? | Certain ideas of Europe
Apparently there is not much to do in Chad. Sudan is far away, the local dictator feels more secure, and anyway, the EU mission has the wrong equipment for the area...
Institutional Competences in the EU External Action: Actors and Boundaries in CFSP and ESDP (pdf)
Interesting but lenghty think tank paper...
Questions raised over EU diplomatic service
The new Lisbon treaty is (probably deliberately!) very vague on the issue of a EEAS (European External Action Service). Indeed, clarity is something else, as some of the rather basic things still need to be solved, for example the interaction between the Council, the Commission and the member state staff, the role of the European Parliament, the formal title of the head of the missions and the formal title of the delegations...as well as the question "where the EEAS and the foreign policy chief will be situated." Luckily, only in 2010 the final proposal need to be finalised.
ESDP After Lisbon: More Coherent and Capable?
This paper describes how the EU's Treaty of Lisbon, if ratified, will comprise a series of innovations designed to increase the coherence and capabilities of the EU as a security actor.
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