3.1 World military expenditure, 2012 72 3.2 European armed forces, 2013 77 3.3 EU
member states defence expenditure 86 5.1 Dates and host countries for CSDP missions 147 …

The European Union (EU) is one of the most unusual global political actors, and it inspires
numerous scholarly debates about its power and purpose. One of the most important such …

Abstract The European Union's security and defence policy (ESDP) was invented 10 years
ago and has been operational for more than five years. During this period the EU has …

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a recent example of an external EU policy
drawn up explicitly with the objective of achieving coherence in the external policies of the …

The Organization of European Security Governance investigates what impact the changing
nature of security challenges has had on the organization of security governance in Europe …

This article examines how the European Union (EU) Strategy for security and development
in the Sahel has been used as a 'laboratory of experimentation'for the implementation of the …

The European Union is often compared to other political systems in order to better
understand its basic features and how they structure politics. This article argues that this …

Conflict prevention and crisis management has become a key activity for the EU since the
creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999. The rapid growth of this policy …

Among the many changes introduced to the European Union's (EU's) external relations role
by the Treaty of Lisbon, one of the most signifi cant is the establishment of a European …

From the beginning of the 1990s, when the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia brought war back to the European continent, the development of the EU's foreign …