Euro-Atlantic Triangle: Joint project with CEPS
Panel discussion on 29 June
After 18 month, we are wrapping up our joint project with CEPS by organising a panel discussion on 29 June at the CEPS office (1 Place du Congrès, 1000 Brussels). From 14:30 to 15:45, we will debate what the EU can uniquely bring to a contested continent and to an international order in transition. From a grand strategic perspective, should the EU plan to be more of a regional actor or more of a global one? If you want to join this in-presence event, please register on the website of our project-partner CEPS by clicking here.
How best to harmonise the EU's Strategic Compass with NATO's Strategic Concept
Together with CEPS we have set up a project to explore how best to harmonise the EU’s Strategic Compass with NATO’s Strategic Concept in a fashion that contributes to stabilising the pan-European security system and enhances the strategic autonomy of the European Union. In this aim we have brought together a coalition of researchers who aim to ‘square the triangle’ of deeper NATO-EU cooperation, greater EU strategic autonomy, and the stability of the wider Euro-Atlantic security space. While all three of these things were once thought to be desirable and simultaneously possible, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought the choices facing Americans and Europeans into starker contrast. It may be that, for the foreseeable future, pursuing one or two of these goals precludes achieving the third, at least to a significant extent. This intellectual exercise therefore highlights some of the tensions between the short- and long-term policy imperatives facing the transatlantic community.
The Russian attack on Ukraine as a watershed moment
During the project policy recommendations will be developed with regards to the Russian attack on Ukraine as a watershed moment for European Foreign and Security Policy; to the shape of the European security architecture after the war in Ukraine and with regards to the future of the transatlantic security partnership.
This project is taking place against the backgrop of a similar project of the colleagues of CEPS and FES ROCPE on trends in the world’s mega region’s, mainly Asia-Pacific.
Publications
Read all project publications below:
Regional actor, global player: Can the EU get the best of both worlds? by Zachary Paikin, Shada Islam, Sven Biscop, August 2023
Solid foundation, rocky future? Assessing transatlantic defence and security ties after NATO’s Madrid summit by Michael J. Mazarr and Daniel Fiott, 18 July 2022
Can we ever build a common European home? The perils and promise of an old idea by Zachary Paikin and Michael Kimmage, 5 December 2022
Which kind of realism should drive Western support for Ukraine? by Henrik Larsen, 12 December 2022
Project coordinators
Zachary Paikin, Researcher (EU Foreign Policy unit), CEPS
Sidonie Wetzig, Policy Officer (Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence), FES Brussels
For more information, please contact Sidonie.Wetzig(at)fes.de.
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