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The Need for an Open System to Evaluate European Union CSDP Missions (ARI) ARI 104/2011 - 10/6/2011 Félix Arteaga The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the launch of the European External Action Service are an opportunity to introduce reporting and assessment mechanisms to render CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy) missions more democratically legitimate and accountable.
France’s National Security Strategy (WP) WP 3/2011 - 17/1/2011 Fabio Liberti and Camille Blain France is one of the EU’s member states with a most highly-developed national strategic culture. However, the 2008 White Paper on Defence and National Security represents a significant leap in the evolution of the French strategic thinking and policies. It establishes the concept of national security, that transcends the traditional realms of defence and internal security and moves towards the overarching concept of national security.
Economic Intelligence: An Operational Concept for a Globalised World (ARI) ARI 134/2010 - 14/9/2010 Claude Revel Economic security policies consist in the prevention and avoidance of all situations that can disrupt the life of firms or States. In France, economic security is seen through the prism of ‘economic intelligence’, which aims to encompass all aspects of globalised risks and opportunities.
NATO’s Evolving Role in an Age of Globalization 10/9/2010 Anders Fogh Rasmussen A speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in a conference organised by the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid on 10 September 2010.
Cyber Security in Spain: A Proposal for its Management (ARI) ARI 102/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 29/7/2010 Enrique Fojón Chamorro and Ángel F. Sanz Villalba Social, economic and cultural relations are increasingly dependent on information and communication technologies and infrastructures (cyberspace), making it necessary to devise a national security system (cyber security) that can manage the risks that threaten their adequate operation.
Prospects for North Korea-South Korea Relations after the Cheonan Incident (ARI) ARI 125/2010 - 28/7/2010 Choi Kang This ARI explores the situation in the Korean peninsula after the sinking of the Cheonan on 26 March 2010 and stresses the need for a new South Korean policy towards the North.
Africa, AFRICOM and the Path to Stability 19/7/2010 Vicki Huddleston Lecture by Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid) on 17 June 2010.
Back to Earth: Nuclear Weapons in the 2010s (ARI) ARI 110/2010 - 25/6/2010 Bruno Tertrais Throughout 2009 it seemed that both nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament were going to make real, fast and lasting progress. Unfortunately, reality bit back and 2010 has shown scant progress in disarmament and not much success in non-proliferation.
The EU’s Internal Security Strategy (ARI) ARI 75/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 22/6/2010 Félix Arteaga The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council approved its Internal Security Strategy on 25 February 2010.
Russian Security Policy and Cooperation with the West (ARI) ARI 97/2010 - 16/6/2010 Marcel de Haas The West must find new ways to cooperate with Russia now that Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have used its energy revenues to transform the country into a resurgent power and developed an assertive policy towards the West.
The End of Deference: Iran, Brazil and Turkey and the Nuclear Fuel Swap (ARI) ARI 96/2010 - 11/6/2010 Ian Anthony On 17 May 2010 Brazil, Iran and Turkey signed a tri-partite Joint Declaration asserting that a nuclear fuel exchange could lead to wider cooperation to exploit nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Haiti: the US and Military Aid in Times of Natural Disaster (ARI) ARI 57/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 13/5/2010 Carlota García Encina This paper analyses the US military deployment in Haiti after the earthquake of 12 January, which caused catastrophic damage in the poorest country in the Americas.
Energy Security in Central Asia: Infrastructure and Risk (ARI) ARI 1/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 19/4/2010 Félix Arteaga The energy infrastructures running through Central Asia face endogenous and exogenous structural risks that could affect supplies if they materialise and Central Asian countries fail to develop adequate protection mechanisms, either on their own or with outside help.
NATO-EU Cooperation in the Atlantic Alliance’s Future Strategic Concept (ARI) ARI 25/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 12/4/2010 Mario A. Laborie Iglesias NATO and EU cooperation on security and defence is one of the fundamental issues to be reviewed in the development process of the Atlantic Alliance’s new Strategic Concept, envisaged for 2010.
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