New Momentum for European Defence Cooperation
For better or for worse, the politics of Brexit, in combination with the implementation of the new EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy, have generated renewed momentum for European defence cooperation. EU member states have tabled a range of proposals. Some consolidation will be necessary, especially if effective defence integration is the aim – and that is the way to overcome current fragmentation. National forces can cooperate and be made interoperable with other forces in various formats simultaneously, but they can be integrated only once. Two levels of defence cooperation and integration must be addressed. At the level of the EU as such, and using EU incentives such as Commission funding for R&T, largescale projects for the development and acquisition of strategic enablers can be mounted, with the European Defence Agency acting as manager. At the level of state clusters, large deployable multinational formations can be created (such as army corps and air wings), with fully integrated maintenance, logistics and other structures in support of the national manoeuvre units that each participant can contribute. By pooling all-too-limited national military sovereignty in this way, defence cooperation and integration can revive sovereignty, understood as the capacity for action, at a higher level.
When Russia goes to war
What makes war acceptable? Julie Wilhelmsen launches her most recent book, followed by a conversation with Aftenposten commentator Helene Skjeggestad.
Tunisia´s Ennahda: A model for Democratizing Political Islam?
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TTIP: Consequences and implications for Norway
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) is pleased to invite you to an open seminar where the results from the project "TTIP: Consequences and implications for Norway" will be presented.
The Arctic buffer
Indigenous peoples are safeguarding Arctic cooperation, Elana Wilson Rowe (NUPI) writes in her most recent High North News commentary.
NATO looking North: What are the priorities after the Warsaw Summit?
Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, The Norwegian Atlantic Committee, German Marshall Fund of the United States and the U.S. Mission to NATO are pleased to invite you to this event: NATO looking North, What are the priorities after the Warsaw Summit?
Waging Peace: UN Peace Operations Confronting Terrorism and Violent Extremism
Arthur Boutellis from the International Peace Institute will present his latest report on UN peace operations and violent extremism.