Europe

The IISS Europe research effort comprises of two major parts—the Transatlantic Relations Programme and an Initiative on European Security.

European Security

Dr Bastian Giegerich is leading a review of future security challenges facing the European Union, an initiative supported by the European Commission in Brussels. Recently, two major project on European military capabilities and the EU’s military crisis management ambitions were completed in the European Security programme, leading to the publication of an IISS dossier on the subject of “European Military Capabilities: Building Armed Forces for Modern Operations” in June 2008 and Adelphi Paper 397 on the subject of “European Military Crisis Management: Connecting Ambition and Reality”in October.

A separate major research effort concentrating on terrorism threats to Europe and official responses, as well as technologies useful in countering terrorism, was undertaken by the IISS in conjunction with consortium partners Thales and Crisis Management Initiative. New European Approaches to Counter Terrorism, the final report of the ESSTRT project, was published in March 2006.  The IISS is currently looking into carrying this project forward and surveying European counterterrorism and homeland security capabilities and legislative landscape.

The IISS continues to host visiting European policy makers, academics, military officers, and senior parliamentarians for occasional seminars, lectures, workshops, and informal briefings.

For more information about the IISS's work on European Security please contact Dr Bastian Giegerich.

Recent IISS publications on European Security include:

Strategic Survey

• France: Frustrated Hopes for Radical Change (2008)

• Germany: Constraints on Action Debated (2008)

• Developments in European Defence (2008)

• The Balkans: Kosovo Breaks Away (2008)

• Turkey: Government Stumbles after Win (2008)

Survival

• Europe, Russia and American Missile Defence (Vol. 50, Number 2)

• The Making of Macedonia (Vol. 50, Number 2)

• A Gaullist by Any Other Name (Vol. 50, Number 3)

• Europe’s Role in Nation Building (Vol. 50, Number 3)

• Why Europe Leads on Climate Change (Vol. 50, Number 4)

• Turkey’s Latest Crisis (Vol. 50, Number 5)

Strategic Comments

• EUFOR in Chad and CAR (Vol. 14, Issue 4)

• Turkey and the PKK (Vol. 14, Issue 4)

• Kosovo's independence (Vol. 14, Issue 3)

• The CFE Treaty (Vol. 14, Issue 2)

• Spain's complex terrorist threats (Vol. 14, Issue 2)

Transatlantic Relations

In addition to this effort, the IISS Europe programme is closely linked to the Transatlantic Relations Programme which is directed by Dr Dana H. Allin, Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs,.  It has included meetings and publications on how to restore a consensus on key security challenges following fierce disagreements over the Iraq war. This will culminate in an Adelphi Paper on the transatlantic future to be published in the first half of 2006. A major focus for 2006 and 2007 will be on transatlantic and broader international strategies to address the challenge of Iran's nuclear ambitions, with a series of meetings and publications funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In addition, Dr Allin's research agenda includes articles and a book project on the political, religious, cultural and strategic encounters between a post-11 September United States and the Europeans.

Survival

• The Transatlantic Agenda: Vision and Counter-Vision, Lawrence Freedman (Vol. 47, No. 4)

• New Directions for Transatlantic Security, James Dobbins (Vol. 47, No. 4)

• Terms of estrangement: French-American relations in perspective, Simon Serfaty (Vol. 47, No. 3)

• Rethinking the EU: Why Washington needs to support European integration, Ronald D. Asmus (Vol. 47, No. 3)

• Europe and America in the Age of Bush, Marta Dassù and Roberto Menotti (Vol. 47, No. 1)

• The Myth of the ‘German Way’: German Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations, Peter Rudolf (Vol. 47, No. 1)

Strategic Comments

• Transatlantic Relations: Persistent Predicaments (Vol. 11, Issue 7)

For more information about IISS's work on Transatlantic Relations, please contact Dr Dana Allin.