Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, a process of securitisation of the European Union's (EU) external action can be observed. From an institutional perspective, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) increasingly overlaps with the Common Security and Defence...

Europe can no longer rely on the United States for its defence but is currently lacking essential capabilities to assure security itself. European countries should not give up on NATO but seek to close capability gaps by developing the European defence industrial base. The EU can play an...

Various options are being discussed to increase Germany's defense capabilities. Increasing the size of the Bundeswehr is proving difficult, and compulsory military service hardly seems feasible for economic and socio-political reasons. A European army and technological alternatives such as...

Although the new EU fiscal rules improve the macroeconomic logic and differentiation, they offer very little leeway for urgently needed, debt-financed defence spending. However, the EU Commission's proposal to solve this via flexible escape clauses undermines the credibility of the rules. A new...

Russia's fullscale invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022 has not shaken France's security policy as fundamentally as it has Germany's. France sees its previous goals confirmed, particularly in terms of strengthening Europe's strategic sovereignty. Nevertheless, it has been adapting in many...

The past few years have been marked by major crises, including the covid pandemic and the Russian attack on Ukraine. These crises have consequences. The new European Commission will need a well thought-out economic policy agenda to respond to the changed geopolitical challenges and to strengthen...

In recent weeks, Japan’s government under Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has im­plemented significant adjustments to the country’s security policy. In December 2022, Tokyo published a new National Security Strategy along with two other defence-related strategic documents. In doing so, the...

Taking their fate into their own hands, EU heads of state and government endorsed the Strategic Compass on 24 March 2022, a roadmap for becoming a stronger security and defence actor. The shared threat assessment, a first in the history of the EU, is a positive development. Rewritten over the...

Since February 2022, Ukraine has been defending itself against yet another Russian war of aggression. Now that immediate support - military, diplomatic, financial and humanitarian - for Ukraine has improved, the country’s long-term security needs to be addressed. Looking ahead, security...

The twenty-first century is now being shaped by a multipolar system characterized by techno-nationalism and a post-Bretton Woods order. In the face of a rapidly evolving digital era, international cooperation will be critical to ensuring peace and security. Information sharing, expert...

The quest for European Security is a protracted interaction of international diplomacy, war anddomestic politics where this article shows how Kosovo is an interplay of all these components.Kosovo is a case where NATO believes that it is strengthening its position of collective security...

Industrielle Kooperationen bieten gerade für innovative Vorhaben Vorteile, denn Forschungs- und Entwicklungsausgaben können so auf mehrere Schultern verteilt und die jeweilige Expertise der Beteiligten effizient genutzt werden. Im Bereich der Verteidigungsindustrie kommt zum Neuigkeitsgrad zu...

Durch den russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine ist die Frage der Einsatzfähigkeit der Bundeswehr erneut in den Fokus gerückt. Die Landesverteidigung, die mit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und der Auflösung von Warschauer Pakt und Sowjetunion 1991 nur noch eine geringe Rolle zu spielen schien,...

"Thirty years ago, the idea that China could challenge the United States economically, globally, and militarily seemed unfathomable. Yet today, China is considered another great power in the international system. How did China manage to build power, from a weaker resource position, in an...

This original book systematically examines Japan's defense engagement with its strategic partners since the end of the Cold War based on Japan's national security strategy. The author maps three defense engagement activities: military exercises, capacity building, and defense equipment transfer...

This essay demonstrates that, because of the flexible definition of “security,” certain interests have the potential to fall in and out of the definition, and thus in and out of securities regulation. This essay coins this potentiality “shapeshifting.” The phenomenon of shapeshifting...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in modern warfare have revolutionized national security power dynamics between the United States, China, Russia, and private industry. The United States has fallen behind in military technologies and is now at the mercy of big technology companies to...

The Republic Act (R.A.) 10349, otherwise known as the Revised Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Program, is a recapturing of the AFP’s initial efforts at modernizing. Successor to R.A. 7898, the document reorients the priorities and the fiscal responsibilities of the...

After gaining the independence Georgia has made a choice in favor of democracy, which implies a great difficulty, risks, challenges and threats to a small state and demands adequate responses. The internal political processes of the country depend on changing situation of the international...

International relations play out on multiple frequencies, where adversary states in one conflict may be partners in another. How do such shifting circumstances influence the conditions for ongoing international military operations? This paper seeks answers through an analysis of Operation...

Diplomacy is a series of crises, and the navigational beacon for a nation is international law. This book is a collection of articles on six selected international legal issues concerning Japan. It addresses various issues, including self-defence, post-war legal issues, chemical weapons, the law...

The ESDC, in the context of the common foreign and security policy (CFSP), provides EU-level training and education, in the field of the Union's common security and defence policy (CSDP). It aims to develop and promote a common understanding of CSDP among civilian and military personnel, and to...

Die Entspannungspolitik Willy Brandts ist am Ende und ein neues Zeitalter der Aufrüstung und Eskalation hat begonnen. "Von deutschem Boden darf niemals wieder Krieg ausgehen", sagte Brandt einst - heute liefert die Bundesregierung schwere Waffen in die Ukraine und macht sich damit wieder einmal...

As a result of growing American insecurity related to Chinese investment, the U.S. Congress is again revising its foreign investment law, less than a dozen years after the last major overhaul. This brief article, prepared for the 2018 Annual General Conference of the European China Law Studies...

This work researches the dependency national security - corruption. In view of security the significant fact is that the resulting vulnerable environment is favourable grounds for building positions of being impacted by foreign services, economic and other subjects with which to impact the...

The EUISS Yearbook of European Security (YES) 2018 is the Institute's annual publication compiling key information and data related to the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in 2017. YES 2018 opens with a preface by Federica Mogherini,...

The EUISS Yearbook of European Security (YES) 2018 is the Institute's annual publication compiling key information and data related to the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in 2017. YES 2018 opens with a preface by Federica Mogherini,...

"This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential. It provides readers with authoritative descriptions of Russia's economy, military prowess and international...

"In this book, Eric J. Heikkila explores a truly important question that has not been adequately analyzed to date: how the rise of China alters the context in which the broad spectrum of policies in the United States should be assessed. Here, the policy domain of the United States government is...

Under the common security and defence policy (CSDP), the EU plans for and responds to international crises. The EU seeks to manage crises, build the capacity of partners and protect Europe through military and civilian means.

The EUISS Yearbook of European Security (YES) 2017 is the Institute's annual publication compiling key documents and data related to the EU's common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and common security and defence policy (CSDP) for the year 2016. Updated factsheets, maps, graphs and charts...