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New Transnational Security Challenges and Responses
European Security and Defence Forum
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Location
Chatham House, London
Participants
Keynote Speaker: Bogdan Aurescu, Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania
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Type: Fee-paying or special invitation events
This will be the second workshop of the European Security and Defence Forum (ESDF), recently established to examine the shifts and developments in European security and defence policies. The ESDF aims to raise the level of the public security and defence debate in the UK and Europe and to encourage cross-disciplinary policy-focused analysis in defence and security. A key component of this initiative is to engage younger academics and analysts, enabling new UK and European voices to be heard at a time of considerable change in European security and strategic thinking.
The twenty-first century brings with it increasingly complex and ever more urgent security challenges including new forms of violent conflict, international terrorism, organised crime, cyber security and even natural disasters. The challenges inherent in addressing issues of this scope and magnitude create problems of pressure, consensus and budget. Are these challenges understood comprehensively at both the national and European level? Are the necessary responses available - policy, military, intelligence and industrial - and are they fully and efficiently integrated? And is there a dynamic research and technology development base ready to provide innovative and appropriate security and defence policy solutions?
In an effort to develop fresh thinking on these questions, this workshop sought contributions from younger analysts and scholars from across the world, 8 of whom have been selected to present their papers at this event.
Attendance at this event is by invitation only.
For information please contact the ESDF.
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Agenda
- Transcript - Bogdan Aurescu
- Workshop Summary
- Paper, 'Constructive Friction or Petty Turf Wars? Organisational Resistance to the Integration of Defence, Diplomacy and Development', Andrea Baumann
- Paper, 'Strategic Warning in an EU Context: Achieving Common Threat Assessments', John Brante
- Paper, 'Living with a Nuclear Mediterranean? Risks and Perspectives for the EU', Dario Cristiani
- Paper, 'The Crisis in Operational Art', Alexander Mattelaer
- Paper, 'Private Security, Somali Piracy, and the Implications for Europe', Dr Christopher Spearin
- Paper, 'Climate Change, Migration and EU Security', Shakti Prasad Srichandan
- Paper, 'Ends without Means: How Casualty Aversion is Undermining the Clausewitzian Relationship between Politics and War in Irregular Conflicts', Lorenzo Zambernardi
- Paper, 'Human Security as the One Size Fits All Policy Approach?', Marco Davi
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