Publikationen: Europäische Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

Globale NATO – aber wie?

von Henning Riecke und Simon Koschut
Veröffentlicht am 03. März 2008.

Unter den Verbündeten ist es mittlerweile unstrittig, dass die NATO global agieren soll. Doch die Krise um die Lastenteilung in Afghanistan zeigt: Mit der Handlungsfähigkeit ist es nicht allzu weit her. Befürwortern einer weltweit operierenden NATO wie den USA kommt es daher entgegen, dass sich eine Reihe demokratischer Staaten auch außerhalb des Bündnisses an gemeinsamen Operationen beteiligt. Washington will solche globalen, privilegierten Partnerschaften zu einer neuen Säule der NATO machen.

The EU Special Representatives: what lessons for the EEAS?

von Cornelius Adebahr und Giovanni Grevi
Veröffentlicht am 26. November 2007.

The work of the EU Special Representatives (EUSR) has not figured prominently in the coverage of EU foreign policy-making and output, let alone in the preliminary exchanges concerning the establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS). Nevertheless, the experience they have accumulated provides relevant lessons to be fed into the upcoming deliberations on how the EEAS might be designed.

Lessons learned from European defence equipment programmes

von Jean-Pierre Darnis, Giovanni Gasparini, Christoph Grams, Fabio Liberti, Jean-Pierre Maulny, May-Britt Stumbaum
Veröffentlicht am 30. Oktober 2007.

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This Occasional Paper explores the issue of European armaments cooperation. Such cooperation between countries has often been difficult. Even so, European governments continue to collaborate on multinational equipment programmes for a number of reasons, and successful multinational programmes have manifold benefits. These benefits include, for instance, the possibility of meeting a capability requirement at an affordable price. Collaborative programmes allow greater economies of scale because of the larger order books. These savings also allow European governments to contemplate acquiring more advanced equipment (and share development costs), despite static defence budgets. Another advantage is the fact that common equipment can help countries work together on international missions: such interoperability is vital for the success of military coalitions. Also, governments gain political benefits from cooperation, and are perceived to be constructive EU partners. Moreover, multinational procurement encourages greater convergence of thinking about international security among EU governments, and this helps foster a common European strategic culture. Other positive side effects include technology sharing, technology development, common standards, integrated logistics and successful exports.

Prüfstein Kosovo

von Cornelius Adebahr
Veröffentlicht am 13. September 2007.

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Fünfzehn Jahre nach Ausbruch der Kriege im ehemaligen Jugoslawien ist die »Stunde Europas« nun endgültig gekommen. Diesmal geht es nicht um militärische Intervention zur Verhinderung eines Völkermords, sondern um politisches Engagement am Verhandlungstisch, zugespitzt in der Statusfrage des Kosovo. Die selbst verschuldete Schwäche der Amerikaner und Russen bringt die Europäische Union (EU) innerhalb der so genannten Troika in eine Schlüsselposition. Sie darf diese Stunde nicht ein zweites Mal verpassen.

Europe back on track? Impulses from the German EU Presidency 2007

von Sebastian Kurpas, Henning Riecke
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2007.

Germany’s EU Presidency in the first half of 2007 had been met by huge expectations - which have largely been fulfilled. This report offers an overview of the aims and achievements in various policy areas during the six-month term. The report draws mostly positive conclusions on internal end economic policies, where agreement on many concrete measures from the presidency’s work program could be achieved, notably on the single market, justice and home affairs, climate protection and energy policy. With the ‘Berlin Declaration’ Germany achieved a show of unity for the future of the Union that was an auspicious start for the talks on treaty reform. The agreement on a detailed mandate for the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) under the Portuguese Presidency now offers a way out of the constitutional crisis of the Union. The presidency played a prominent and constructive role throughout the negotiations, which achieved a number of difficult political compromises. In foreign policy, results were less tangible. Germany’s engagement helped to deepen the economic partnership with the US, but could not avoid deterioration in EU-Russia relations. That was a specific drawback for the ambitious concept of a “New Ostpolitik”, aiming at integrated policies on Russia, the EU’s Neighborhood and energy. In the conflicts in Kosovo and between Israel and Palestine, substantial settlements are also a long way off. The EU is preparing for an ambitious operation in Kosovo and Germany helped to move the Middle East conflict higher up on the international agenda. An annex offers a survey of the conditions for EU policy in Germany and the organisational structures of the Presidency.