Sven Biscop

Oscar Jonsson

Frank Bekkers

Sten Rynning

Jolyon Howorth

Giovanni Faleg

Tom Dyson

Tomas Weiss

Alessandro Marrone

Jacek Bartosiak

Daniel Fiott

Nick Witney

Simon J. Smith

Benoît Gomis

Olivier de France

Hilmar Linnenkamp

Ronja Kempin

Falk Tettweiler

The Amazing Strategic Orchestra of Belgian Defence

Enrique Fojon

Enrique Mora

Felix Arteaga

Manuel Muniz

Francisco de Borja Lasheras

Antonios Nestoras

Edgars Kiukucans

Dominik P. Jankowski

Ton van Osch

Carlos Branco

Margiris Abukevicius

Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen

Vivien Pertusot

Dick Zandee

Jo Coelmont

Alexander Mattelaer

Given the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s resurgence and the burning crises in the South there has never been a better time to discuss European defence. From November 2014 to March 2015, the online magazine European Geostrategy published a number of excellent essays on the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), all from a national perspective. You can now read all of the essays in this one neat publication. Indeed, in this essay collection jointly published by European Geostrategy, the Egmont Institute and the Institute for European Studies, a host of leading experts give their national perspectives on the present state and future of the EU’s CSDP. Each of the thirty-four essays focuses on the continued relevance of the CSDP when compared to the security challenges facing Europe today. Some essays give a bleak picture of the future, whereas others see grounds for optimism. Either way the essays are bound to provoke reactions of all kinds.

The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives

Tim Sweijs

Stephan de Spiegeleire

National security starts with strategic anticipation: what are the risks for the Dutch national security? How can the Netherlands prepare for this, and what choices and investments are needed in order to do so?

Up and down, round and round, faster and faster

The wheel of fortune

Maarten Gehem

Sijbren de Jong

Marjolein de Ridder

Willem Auping

Supply and demand of resources are connected in multiple and complex ways. This interconnectivity has been framed as the global resource nexus. This study focuses on the nexus of five essential natural resources: land, food, energy, water, and minerals. In order to meet the demand for resources from present and future generations, strategic thinking about interdependencies between the supply of and demand for resources is paramount. This report provides insight into the complex interaction between resource supply and demand, global megatrends such as economic growth, climate change, urbanization and demographics, and broader nexus variables such as human resources, technology, governance, social and political factors and instability. Comprising case studies on soy from Brazil, cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire and palm oil from Malaysia, the report illustrates how the nexus dynamics create various risks to the sustainable security of supply of agricultural commodities that are of high importance to the Dutch agri-food sector. The results of this research can be used to strengthen existing initiatives for sustainable supply chain management, and to facilitate policy making in this field. To this end, the report contains a chapter with recommendations on how policymakers can use the global resource nexus framework proposed in this report.

IMPACT ON SUSTAINABLE SECURITY OF SUPPLY OF AGRI-FOOD IMPORTS FOR THE NETHERLANDS

The Global Resource Nexus

Kamal Eldin Salah

Willem Th. Oosterveld

Dana Poláčková

Scott Ward

Rik Rutten

Nathalie Olah 

Analyses of the international security environment typically provide somber overviews of the various drivers and manifestations of conflict and instability around the world. Recent developments such as the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and elsewhere, a Middle East in flames, a resurgent Russia, incessant violence in West Africa or turmoil in South China Sea only reinforce this view. By framing our analysis of the security environment in these terms, debates about how to anticipate and respond to these current and future threats invariably focus on those forces of instability and conflict: how to identify threats and enemies and then eliminate them. This report is based on the premise that this conflict-centric mindset has led to portfolio choices in terms of strategies (‘what do we do and how do we do it?’), capabilities (‘what do we do it with?’), and partners (‘who do we do it with?’) that have been excessively onesided. This report argues that there is an alternative, complementary way of framing security that is equally real and equally actionable for defense and security organizations (DSOs4 ): a resilience-centric one.

INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT, SOCIETAL RESILIENCE AND THE ARMED FORCES

SI VIS PACEM, PARA UTIQUE PACEM

Dit rapport biedt een overzicht van vier jaar Strategy and Change.

DE UITDAGING WAAR NEDERLAND VOOR STAAT: TERUGBLIK OP HET PROGRAMMA STRATEGY AND CHANGE

Frank Bekkers

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