/ John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges (both ret. US military), Julian Lindley-French (British academic). Oxford University Press USA, 2021, 347 pages.

At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.

/ Carolyn M Evans (Univ. New South Wales, AU). Brill, 2021, 270 pages.

In Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council, Carolyn Evans argues that enhanced accountability of the Council, and corresponding evolution of practice, are salutary changes which are feasible to achieve towards the Council better answering its raison d'être.

/ Hylke Dijkstra, Petar Petrov, Ewa Mahr (all from Maastricht Univ., NL). In: Cooperation and conflict, 2019, Vol.54 (4), p.524-543.

The article highlights that the EU, despite its more homogeneous and wealthier membership, has not been able to better learn to deploy its civilian capabilities than the UN or OSCE. We show that the ability of these organizations to learn is, instead, highly dependent on institutional factors.

/ Jean-Marie Guéhenno (former UN staff). In: Daedalus (2018) 147 (1): 185–196.

The UN engagement in civil wars was almost nonexistent until the end of the Cold War, but recent experience brings some important lessons: the traditional principles of peacekeeping are ill-suited for civil war, as demands on peacekeepers, in particular the protection of civilians, are expanding. But military force is there to support a political strategy.

/ C. Hoffmann (Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag). In: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, 2021, volume 14, pages 291–301.

Das Essay skizziert die Entstehung und Bedeutung des europäischen Anspruchs auf mehr Autonomie. Auf die Parameter Hard- und Soft Power beschränkt, soll anhand von Länderbeispielen herausgearbeitet werden, ob die EU ihren neuen Anspruch bereits geltend machen konnte.

/ Christian Pauletto (Int. Univ. Geneva, CH). In: Transforming government, 2020, Vol.14 (3), p.351-380.

Since the early 2000s, the United Nations “group of governmental experts (GGE) on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security” debates on this issue. This paper aims to investigate how states are challenged in the development of international cyber norms and where capacity to act is idle, i.e. to assess how much has been reached in the international community’s debate on cyber threats and malicious behaviors in the international security context and to identify directions to move GGE work further.

Lead authors: Tania Lațici and Elena Lazarou for EP Members' Research Service, 2021, 108 pages.
This is the fourth Peace and Security Outlook produced by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS). The series is designed to analyse and explain the contribution of the European Union to the promotion of peace and security internationally, through its various external policies. The study provides an overview of the issues and current state of play.

/ EP Research Service, 88 pages. Versions in English, French, and German.

The Normandy Index, now in its third year, aims at measuring the level of threat to peace, security and democracy around the world. It was presented for the first time on the occasion of the Normandy Peace Forum in June 2019, as a result of a partnership between the European Parliament and the Region of Normandy.

/ Florence Schimmel for German Council on Foreign Relations, 2021, 10 pages.

In September 2020, the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) conducted an expert workshop on the future of conflict for Europe. Participants from across the continent were invited to develop forward-looking scenarios for crises impacting European security up until 2030.

/ Blog Post by Ania Zolyniak, Guest Blogger for Council on Foreign Relations, 2021.

Competing UN credential submissions are not unprecedented. Many of the pressures and challenges of the modern era, however, are.

/ Raluca Csernatoni for Carnegie, Europe, 2021, 7 p.

As part of the EU’s strategic autonomy, the concept of technological sovereignty has risen in importance. What steps can Europe take to grow its technological capacity?

/ Ian Bond, Luigi Scazzieri, Senem Aydın-Düzgit for Centre for European Reform, 2021, 12 pages.

The EU’s neighbours are diverse, and include countries that are candidates for membership like Albania and Turkey; countries that are NATO members and are not seeking EU membership like the UK and Norway; and countries that aspire to both EU and NATO membership like Georgia and Ukraine.