• Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 01 June 2001

    Once again the Middle East is facing a crisis with rising levels of hatred and violence on all sides. The death toll in the "second" intifadah stands at 450 Palestinians and around 100 Israelis and is rising. As a result, the prospects for a comprehensive peace accord are slipping ever further away.

  • Bulletin article by Kori Schake, 01 June 2001

    Many American policy-makers are worried that the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) could undermine NATO and damage the transatlantic relationship.

  • Working paper by Bruno Tertrais, 06 April 2001

    In Europe, both governments and the broad spread of public opinion have been largely sceptical about, or opposed to, missile defence.

  • Report by Charles Grant, 02 March 2001

    The creation of the single European currency, a revolutionary innovation for the European Union (EU), has provoked tumultuous debate across the continent and beyond. Yet the EU's plans for a common defence policy have - thus far - attracted less attention.

  • Working paper by Steven Everts, 02 February 2001

    The election of George W Bush as the new US President has caused uneasiness in Europe, both at the level of individual states and that of the European Union (EU).

  • Working paper by Alex Ashourne, 03 November 2000

    Many European defence companies aspire to gain access to the US defence market. America has the largest defence budget in the world – some $280 billion, or 3.3 per cent of GDP in 2000 – and is the source of much of the world's most advanced defence technology.

  • Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 October 2000

    Last year, the Kosovo air war highlighted the impotence of Europe's armed forces.The Americans provided more than three-quarters of the bombs dropped, and most of the advanced communications equipment.

  • Bulletin article by Klaus Naumann, 01 June 2000

    The European Union's 'Headline Goal', agreed at the Helsinki Summit in December 1999, calls for the creation of a 60,000-strong rapid-reaction force by 2003. Turning that goal into reality is extremely difficult.