The EU and ASEAN in 2016

The EU-ASEAN bi-regional relationship now goes beyond trade and institutional capacity-building. As a result, forging a more institutionalised‘strategic partnership’ in 2016 appears the most logical choice for both parties.

China's multilateralism: higher ambitions

China’s global activism is reaching new heights under President Xi Jinping’s leadership. Beijing is hoping to exert itself as a new multilateral leader by venturing into previously unchartered realms such as cybersecurity.

The EU neighbours 1995-2015: shades of grey

This Chaillot Paper charts the changes that have taken place in the countries and regions adjacent to the EU over the past two decades.

Waging #Eurojihad: foreign fighters in ISIL

There are around 5,000 EU citizens currently fighting for ISIL. How are they recruited? What is reality like under the rule of the so-called caliphate? And, perhaps most importantly, how and why do they return?

Towards an EU global strategy – Background, process, references

Against the background of the ongoing consultation exercise on developing an EU global strategy, this book presents and contextualises the documents that have successively codified the Union’s external action objectives.

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  20 years on: rethinking Schengen

  Given the radically altered international environment, how can the EU best adapt its border regime? This Brief shows how it will require an innovative response, rather than replicating at an EU level the classical attributes of a national model.

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  The IPCR arrangements: a joined-up approach in crisis response?

  This Brief examines the first use of the Integrated Political Crisis Response (IPCR) arrangements in response to the refugee crisis in Europe. How do they work? Can this new instrument foster a real joined-up approach to EU crisis response?

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  Migration and terrorism: the new frontiers for European solidarity

  Member states have twice come close to activating the EU’s ‘solidarity clause’, and both cases have involved an internal security crisis with roots outside the Union. But will EU member states only properly support each other if they also feel able to eliminate the root causes overseas?

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  The EU neighbours 1995-2015: shades of grey

  This Chaillot Paper charts the changes that have taken place in the countries and regions adjacent to the EU over the past two decades, and analyses how the upheavals of recent years have altered the EU’s relationship with and approach to its eastern and southern neighbours.

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  On target? EU sanctions as security policy tools

  This Report, the outcome of an EUISS Task Force on sanctions, offers valuable insight into a practice that is now part and parcel of the Union's ‘security’ policy toolbox. It aims to shed more light on an EU policy area that is still under-researched at a time when sanctions are becoming more important in terms of their number, scale and political salience.

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  Arctic security matters

  The Arctic region is currently undergoing major and rapid transformation, both environmentally and economically. This report, the outcome of a EUISS Task Force, examines how these changes carry significant political implications, and highlights the new security challenges that are emerging in the region.