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EP Studies

The latest studies arising from the Framework Agreement with the European Parliament have now been published by the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union Policy Department, and are also available here:
• Options for the EU to Support the African Peace and Security Architecture - by Alex Vines and Roger Middleton

• The increasing role of Private Military and Security Companies- by Alyson J. K. Bailes and Caroline Holmqvist.


For hard copies of the studies or further information about the Policy Department please send an email to xp-poldep@europarl.europa.eu

European Security Review
  • ESR no.39  (July - 2008) Pdf file
    Looking at: Battle Groups; Responsibility to Protect; EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports; 5 years of ESDP in Action; ESDP Mission Update (including tables and charts); European Parliamentary Update June 2008; R2P and POC event and Council ESDP Handbook Launch.

  • ESR no.38  (May - 2008) Pdf file
    Looking at: Kosovo SSR implementation; EUSSR in Guinea-Bissau; EU surveying the EU – The Future of Europe; European Parliamentary Update March 2008; European Parliamentary Update May 2008; ISIS-DCAF joint report; Launch of the gender and SSR toolkit

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    European Parliament
  • Parliamentary Update 23 – 26 June 2008. ESR no 39. By Daniel Fiott and Olivier Jacquemet 2008-06-30 
     

    Includes coverage of the exchange of views with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, a workshop on the ‘African Peace and Security Architecture’, the 10th Joint Meeting with the Chairs of Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees of National Parliaments, and an exchange of views with DG E IX, Council; the CFSP Operations Unit, European Commission; the Crisis Response and Peacebuilding Unit, European Commission and Chair of the PSC.



  • Parliamentary Update 3 – 9 June 2008. ESR no 39 - By Daniel Fiott and Olivier Jacquemet 2008-06-03 
     

    Includes coverage of the recent AFET delegation visit to Afghanistan, an opinion on the Parliament’s new role and responsibilities implementing the Treaty of Lisbon, a report on space and security, debate on public contracts in the fields of defence and security and transfers of defence-related products and an exchange of views between the Commission and the Committee on Cluster Munitions and between the SEDE Subcommittee and President of COARM.




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    European Security Contact Group

  • R2P and the Protection of Civilians: Whom and How? Mandate and Capabilities  2008-07-01 Pdf file

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    In its attempt to stop a future Rwanda, the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) concept has raised a number of controversial issues. Those in support of the principle have seen it as a milestone in extending a normative basis for humanitarian intervention, while others claim that R2P serves as a license for powerful ‘Western’ states to impose and intervene wherever they like.

     

    Speaking on such issues

    Gareth Evans, President and CEO, International Crisis Group, (former Co-Chair ICISS)

    Mark Burgess, Director, World Security Institute

    Marta Martinelli, Pole Bernheim Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Visiting Professor, UNESCO Chair, University of Bujumbura, Burundi (author of the EP study on the Protection of Civilians in Peacekeeping)

    will seek to answer the following questions:

     

    •           What has happened to our understanding of sovereignty since the adoption of R2P?

    •           How important is the issue of political will in mobilising a response to potential R2P situations and the protection of civilians?

    •           How is ESDP addressing the issue of civilian and military capabilities in response to R2P?

    •           How have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq affected the legitimacy of R2P as a concept?

    •           Should the international community invoke R2P in Darfur/Chad, Zimbabwe or Burma?


       

  • The New Arms Race and its Alternatives  2008-06-12

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    Host: Angelika Beer, MEP

    Opening remarks: Angelika Beer, MEP

     

    Chair: Giji Gya, ISIS Europe

     

    Speakers:

    PD Dr Andreas Heinemann-Gruder, Senior Researcher as the Bonn International Centre for Conversion 
    Prof. Dr Harald Muller, Director of the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt
    Prof. Dr Gotz Neuneck, Leader of the interdisciplinary working group on disarmament, arms control and risk technologies, Hamburg Institute for Security and Peace 


    Three speakers from leading research institutes in Germany present their major findings and policy proposals on how best the EU and NATO can both preserve international arms control regimes and develop new arms control and disarmament initiatives.


       
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