Common Security & Defence Policy
Information about civilian and military crisis management, ESDP/CSDP operations, capabilities and military-industrial complex
EU-Links
This is the main Council page on CSDP. It provides access to all CSDP related items, like news, references, operations, etc.
Here you can find ESDP Reports by the Presidency or the High Representative (since 2004).
Here you can find the core documents on ESDP/CSDP beginning from 2001. Just click on the year and than look for the document with 'Core documents' in its title.
A report from the Council of the European Union on 10 years ESDP
Available meeting documents of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE).
Documents
Links
This is a very complete site on CSDP. There is an overview of all the EU CSDP missions and of all the countries where the EU is active. You can also take a look at the EU structure where you can find who the most important actors are in the field of CSDP, development aid, CFSP, etc... You can also find information on more thematical issues like human rights, Piracy, EU-NATO, Crisis management, etc...
Here you can find information on all the multilateral peace missions. Go to 'category' select EU to view the EU peace missions in the selected period.
Literature
Howorth, J. (2007). Security and Defence Policy in the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mérand, F. (2008) European Defence Policy. Beyond the Nation State. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Biscop, Sven, and Franco Algieri (2008) The Lisbon Treaty and ESDP: Transformation and integration, Egmont Paper. Brussels: Academia Press.
de Vasconcelos, A. (Ed.) (2009) What ambitions for European defence in 2020? 2nd ed. Paris: Institute for Security Studies European Union. (http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/What_ambitions_for_European_defence_in_2020.pdf)
Grevi, G., Helly, D. and Keohane, D. (Eds.) (2009) European Security and Defence Policy. The first 10 years (1999-2009). Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies. (http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/ESDP_10-web.pdf)
Von Wogau, Karl, (ed.) (2009) The path to European defence. New roads, new horizons. London: John Harper Publishing.
Matlary, J. H. (2009). European Union Security Dynamics: In the New National Interest. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Menon, Anand (2009) Empowering paradise? The ESDP at ten. International affairs 85 (2):227-246.
Lasheras, Borja, Enrique Ayala, Jean-Pierre Maulny, Fabio Liberti, Christos Katsioulis, and Sven Biscop (2009) A future agenda for the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). Working paper February:1-50.
Csaba, Töro (2010) External State Partners in ESDP Missions: Third Country Participation in EU Crisis Management. European Foreign Affairs Review 15 (3):325-345.
Blockmans, S., Wouters, J. & Ruys, T. (Eds.) (2010) The European Union and Peacebuilding. Policy and Legal Aspects. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.
Attina, F. & Irrera, D. (Eds.) (2010) Multilateral security and ESDP operations. Hampshire: Ashgate.
De Vasconcelos, Alvaro (ed.) (2010) Quelle défense européenne en 2020? Paris: l’Institut d’Etudes de Sécurité de l’Union européenne.
Merlingen, M., & Ostrauskaite, R. (Eds.) (2010) European Security and Defence Policy. An Implementation Perspective. London: Routledge.
Margaras, Vasilis (2010) Common Security and Defense Policy and the Lisbon Treaty fudge: No common strategic culture, no major progress. EPIN Working paper 28:1-12.
Watanabe, L. (2010). Securing Europe. European Security in an American epoch. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hughes, J. (ed.) (2010) EU conflict management. Oxon: Routledge.
Major, Claudia, and Christian Mölling (2010) EU-battlegroups: Bilanz und Optionen zur Weiterentwicklung europäischer Krisenreaktionskräfte. In SWP-Studie. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit.
Rehrl, Jochen, and Hans-Bernhard Weisserth, (eds.) (2010) Handbook on CSDP: The common security and defence policy of the European Union. Vienna: Directorate for Security Policy of the Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria.
Cross, Mai'a K. Davis (2010) Cooperation by committee: The EU military Committee and the Committee for Civilian Crisis Management. Occasional paper (82):1-39.
Weiss, Moritz (2011) Transaction Costs and Security Institutions: Unravelling ESDP. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
King, Anthony (2011) The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces - From the Rhine to Afghanistan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tocci, Nathalie (ed.) (2011) The European Union, Civil Society and Conflict. Oxon: Routledge
Rabi, Uzi. (2010). International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution Since the Cold War. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd.
Reynolds, Christopher. (2010). Understanding the Emergence of the European Security and Defence Policy. An Historical and Institutionalist Analysis. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Marsh, Steve and Wyn Rees (2011). The European Union in the Security of Europe. Oxon: Routledge
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