Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power
ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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Permanent Sovereign COoperation (PESCO) to underpin the EU Global Strategy. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 80 December 2016 [PDF]
The EU now has a full-fledged Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy – and defence. Just in time. The EUGS includes a clear political level of ambition as well as a call to define the corresponding military level of ambition and the required ...
Coelmont, Joel.
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EU Space Governance at the Threshold of a New Era
ABSTRACT This introductory article to the special issue “EU Space Governance at the Threshold of a New Era” explores the European Union's evolving role as a strategic actor in space. It argues that the EU is undergoing a fundamental shift from a regulatory to a security‐oriented approach, driven by institutional consolidation, technological ambition ...
Philip De Man, Jan Wouters
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STRATEGIC AUTONOMY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S PERMANENT STRUCTURED COOPERATION [PDF]
Is the European Union’s Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) providing a coherent and comprehensive effort to achieve “strategic autonomy” in military capabilities or is it just a collection of miscellaneous initiatives under one umbrella?
Donath, Sascha
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CSDP and the open method of coordination: Developing the EU's comprehensive approach to security [PDF]
How can we best describe the operation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), and how can we improve policy-making in CSDP? The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is predicated on the conviction that there are clear limits to the extent that ...
Sweeney Simon, Winn Neil
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The Post-Brexit EU as a Global Actor: Reconsidering Security [PDF]
The departure of the UK left the EU not only without its second largest economy, but also without one of its two nuclear powers – with a permanent seat in the Security Council – and without an important member state of NATO – a global security provider ...
Valentin Naumescu
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Lowered Abundance of Gut Bacteriophage Species Is Associated With Human Cancer Cachexia
ABSTRACT Background Cancer cachexia exemplifies a high medical need condition without effective treatment. Recent studies implicated bacterial gut microbiome alterations to cancer cachexia. Whether the gut bacteriophage profile, an important microbiome component for health and disease, is also related to cancer cachexia remains unknown.
Axel Stang +6 more
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Epistemic opacity in Antarctic science: Unknowing the last frontier
Abstract Antarctica is facing intensifying pressures from climate change, industrial fishing, tourism and renewed geopolitical competition, even as scientific activity on the continent reaches unprecedented levels. We argue that this proliferation of research often fails to deliver the integrated, policy‐relevant knowledge needed for precautionary ...
Virginia Morandini, Álvaro Soutullo
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European Defence: What’s in the CARDs for PESCO? Egmont Security Policy Briefs No. 91, October 2017 [PDF]
Suddenly everything is happening at once: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), the European Defence Fund (EDF)… The launch of PESCO is expected before the end of the year or in early 2018 at ...
Biscop, Sven.
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Panama Canal expansion and shifts in fishing practices: A social‐ecological network approach
Abstract Species introductions have spiked over the past two centuries due to globalization. These introductions impact ecosystems, but may also have long‐term implications for human communities. In one of the world's hubs for global shipping, the Panama Canal, a recent canal expansion has coincided with an increase in marine fishes entering the ...
Michelle Hübel +10 more
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