Readings in European Security Volume 2. CEPS Paperback. March 2004

This second volume of Readings in European Security contains the complete set of working papers commissioned by the CEPS–IISS European Security Forum in 2003 (Nos. 10-15), during a period of profound change in the international security environment. These papers illuminate the big issues in European security such as the recently unveiled European security strategy, pre-emptive military action and the future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In-depth analysis is provided on Europe’s approach to regions such as Turkey and the Greater Middle East. Independent experts present EU, US and Russian viewpoints on each topic. Each set of papers is prefaced by an Introduction by the Chairman, François Heisbourg, Director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique in Paris

Sleep walking to solidarity? : Russia, Ukraine, and the European dream

Published online: 30 May 2022Europeans' awakening to a new reality of East–West confrontation, driven home by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has fed the accusation that they must have been asleep, much as they were before the First World War. Many view Germany's complacency in particular - manifested by its promotion of energy dependence on Russia - as inexcusable. However somnolent it may have been at times, though, Europe's vision of peace and prosperity has proven resilient. When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he foreclosed complacent introspection. While Russia's permanent isolation is not a viable endgame for Europe or the United States, its isolation may be unavoidable for a generation or more. But Europe has, in living memory, fostered the rebirth of a ravaged continent as a prosperous and forward-looking civilisation. In alliance with America, it can again be master of its own fate

The sixth crisis : Iran, Israel, America and the rumors of war / Dana H. Allin and Steven Simon.

"IISS an International Institute for Strategic Studies book."Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-188) and index.Book fair 2013.xi, 207 pages :"The sixth crisis explores the fraught linkages between the Iranian nuclear challenge, the increasing likelihood of an Israeli preventive strike, the continuing Israel-Palestine tragedy, and President Barack Obama's efforts to recast America's relations with the world's Muslims. [The authors] lay out in clear and accessible detail the technical and political dimensions of Iran's nuclear program ... [and] show how Israel's panic about Iran's nuclear threat, combined with Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, is undermining Jerusalem's alliance with America. Tehran, meanwhile, is exploiting tensions between Arab regimes fearful of a nuclear Iran and an Arab public that is both angry about the plight of the Palestinians and resentful of Israel's nuclear monopoly in the region. The status quo is a path to disaster, and the hopes that President Obama has inspired are threatened by the toxic mixture of Israeli-Palestinian stalemate and Iran's nuclear ambitions."--Book jacket

The Macedonian Crisis and Balkan Security. ESF Working Paper No. 2, 1 July 2001

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American-German economic relations: two years after the lifting of the Iron Curtain

SIGLEAvailable from Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Weltwirtschaft, ZBW, Duesternbrook Weg 120, D-24105 Kiel C 190087 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Readings in European Security, Volume 3. CEPS Paperback. November 2005

The ambition of this latest volume of Readings in European Security is to serve as a prism, through which the EU’s external relations and security can be assessed, with contributions from its American and Russian partners. It contains the complete set of working papers (Nos. 16 through 20) during the period January 2003 to June 2005. International experts tackle strategic issues such as Russia’s relationship with the West, the rise of China (with special reference to arms supplies), Iran’s nuclear programme and European ‘homeland security’ against the background of global terrorism. On these issues and others, transatlantic relations continue to be more relevant than ever, with the US and the EU intertwined in the world’s tightest network of economic and societal relations. Further, Russia’s management of its security challenges also has an impact on its relations with the EU and the US. As the enlarging EU stretches to cover an expanding area of competence, its responses to these challenges affect not only its internal security, but increasingly that of its neighbours and other powerful actors on the world stage

Australia and the world, prologue and prospects

In December 1988, as part of Australia's Bicentennial activities, the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre held a major international conference which was designed to take stock of Australia's current defence and security circumstances, in the light of both the last 200 years of history and relevant regional and global security developments, and assess our future prospects. It was the most ambitious conference organised by the Centre, and was reckoned to have been extremely successful. This volume consists of the revised and edited versions of papers prepared for that conference. The security environment which faces Australia as it enters the third century of its European settlement is increasingly complex and uncertain. Bipolarity is now history. Other powers, such as Japan, China and India, will be increasingly active in the region. Security is becoming more multi-dimensional, with the military dimension decreasing in significance relative to economic and environmental concerns. Political, economic and technological change will be more dynamic. The management of this new security environment will not be easy. It requires the careful and considered marshalling of economic and diplomatic resources together with military capabilities. Australia's influence in the world will inevitably be modest. Securing our country's future will be a challenge to our wit and ingenuity - which makes the excercise an interesting and exciting prospect