Closing the gap? Military co-operation from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. OSW Report, December 2012 [PDF]
The contracting defence budgets in Europe, the difficulties in developing the EU’s security policy, NATO's transformation, the reorientation of US security policy and the problems experienced by European defence industries – all together have in recent ...
Daborowski, Tomasz +6 more
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The Political and Economic Context of European defence R&D [PDF]
Along with all other defence-related issues, defence research is a controversial area for EU action. Until recently, defence issues have not figured prominently among EU policy discussions and defence research has played little, if any, role in European ...
Jordi Molas-Gallart
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An Industrious European Council on Defence? Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 53, February 2014 [PDF]
The December 2013 Council meeting set in motion a number of important “roadmaps” for defence-industrial policy in Europe. Now the member states, the European Defence Agency and European Commission need to be aware of the potential roadblocks ...
Fiott, Daniel
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Defence studies is a multidisciplinary field concerned with how state and non-state actors prepare for, deter, or engage in armed conflict, and how defence policy evolves in response to shifts in power, strategy, and technology.
Merve Asilogullari Ayan +4 more
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French Defense Policy in 2022-2024: Changes within Continuity
This article delves into French contemporary defense policy beginning with the President Emmanuel Macron’s 2022 statements about transitioning to a so-called “military economy.” Since then, the French government has indeed put defense at the top of its ...
A. Yu. Chikhachev
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A policy and program for invigorating science and technology for national security: consultation paper – April 2014 [PDF]
This paper outlines the development of a new science and technology (S&T) policy for national security, and invites submissions. Introduction The Hon Stuart Robert MP, Assistant Minister for Defence is championing the development of a new framework
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Agenda for change: strategic choices for the next government [PDF]
The next government has a primary requirement to be well briefed on the challenges inherent in Australia’s strategic circumstances and the policy options available to it.
Peter Jennings
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Inter-state terrorism in the 21st Century: Mapping the Evolution of the Global Rendition System [PDF]
This paper seeks to explain the development and operation of a now global system of rendition and secret detention in the ‘War on Terror’. The paper offers two corrections to current understandings of rendition.
Blakeley, Ruth, Raphael, Sam
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Book review: handbook of Indian defence policy: themes, structures and doctrines edited by Harsh Pant [PDF]
The Handbook of Indian Defence Policy aims to provide an authoritative, compelling and comprehensive survey of India’s defence policy since it gained its independence in 1947.
Verma, Raj
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Commonwealth Parliament from 1901 to World War I [PDF]
This paper provides an overview of Australia as a newly emerging ‘nation-state’ and the evolution of the federal Parliament by tracing the seven elections held from 1901 to 1918. Executive summary • The Commonwealth Parliament of Australia was just 13
Joy McCann, Rob Lundie
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