Euro-Atlantic, Regional and Global Security

• Purpose and Main Areas of Research
  
• Project staff
  
• Publications
  
• Documentation
  
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Purpose and Main Areas of Research

The purpose of the project is to study the current and emerging dimensions of the security processes, with a particular emphasis on the Euro-Atlantic and regional actors, and security institutions and mechanisms. The project analyses the factors contributing to stability and change in the existing security environment. An additional research area is the examination of how the European military security-building experience can be used in non-European regional contexts.

The main areas of work cover:

• Euro-Atlantic security: US-European security issues; defence and security developments in the EU; the EU´s neighbourhood policy; developments in NATO and EU-NATO relations; Russian relations with NATO and EU; security and democracy movements and other changes in the former Soviet space; follow up to ´reform´ studies/initiatives in OSCE; developments in the Nordic/Baltic region and the Balkan region
• Conventional arms control: developments on OSCE: CFE and CSBMs; subregional arrangements in the OSCE area; other major regional developments; global restrictions on conventional arms (notably in the humanitarian context: landmines, ERW, cluster munitions)
• Other regional security issues: China-Russia relations (SCO); China Taiwan relations; security building in the Korean peninsula; counterinsurgency and state-building in Afghanistan




Project staff




Dr Zdzislaw Lachowski
Senior Researcher
He formerly worked as Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. He has published extensively on the problems of European security and arms control as well as on European politico-military integration. He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1992. His recent publications include International Security in a Time of Change: Threats - Concepts - Institutions (co-editor with H.- J. Giessmann and R. Kuzniar, Nomos Verlag, 2004); Confidence- and Security-building Measures in the New Europe (Oxford University Press, 2004); Foreign Military Bases in Eurasia (Stockholm, 2007) and Tools for Building Confidence on the Korean Peninsula (Co-authored with Martin Sjögren et al., SIPRI-CSS ETH Zürich, 2007)


Dr Gunilla Herolf
Senior Guest Researcher
She helds her PhD degree from the University of Stockholm. One of her fields of interest is security cooperation within the EU and NATO and among countries in Western Europe, with an emphasis on France, Germany and the UK. Another is Swedish and Nordic security and a third is transatlantic cooperation. Previously she worked at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Among her publications are France, Germany and the UK: Cooperation in Times of Turbulence (2004) and A.J.K. Bailes, G. Herolf and B. Sundelius, The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy (2006). She participates as a work package leader in the EU-CONSENT project, financed by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme. She is board member of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Concil of the Institut für Sicherheit und Friedensforschung, Hamburg (ISFH). (see also c.v.)


Dr Jean-Yves Haine
Researcher
He holds a law degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a Master in International Relation from the Sorbonne (France) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences-Po. (France). Before joining the Institute, he was a Research fellow at the Government Department, Harvard University, a Senior Research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris and European Security Research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. His latest book, Les Etats Unis ont-ils besoin d´alliés? (Paris: Payot, 2004), received the France-Amérique Prize 2004. His is working on European security and defence, transatlantic relations and the use of force. (For complete info and list of publications see also c.v.)


Martin Sjögren
Research Assistant
He holds a Master's degree in Comparative Politics and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations & History, both from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook in 2003 and 2004 and is the co-author of Tools for Building Confidence on the Korean Peninsula (SIPRI-CSS ETH Zürich: 2007) He is currently Information Manager at the EU-CONSENT project.

Publications


1. Major publications (initiated and prepared within the project)


Sharon Wiharta, Jean-Yves Haine, et al., The Effectiveness of Foreign Military Assets in Natural Disaster Response (SIPRI, 2008), (August 2006) (pdf 2,9 MB)

Zdzislaw Lachowski, Foreign Military Bases in Eurasia, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 18 (June 2007) (pdf, 1,1 MB)

Zdzislaw Lachowski, Martin Sjögren, et al., Tools for Building Confidence on the Korean Peninsula. A report (SIPRI-ETH CSS Zurich, June 2007) (pdf, 1,5 MB)

Alyson J.K. Bailes and Pál Dunay et al., The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 17 (May 2007) (pdf 708 KB)

Mathieu Chillaud: Territorial Disarmament in Northern Europe: The Epilogue of a Success Story?, SIPRI Policy Paper 13 (August 2006)

Miroslav Tuma: Relics of Cold War: Defence Transformation in the Czech Republic; SIPRI Policy Paper No. 14 (pdf, 484 KB)

Alyson J.K. Bailes, Gunilla Herolf and Bengt Sundelius (eds.): The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy, (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Aarish U. Khan: The Terrorist Threat and Policy Responses in Pakistan: Limitations and Leverages; SIPRI Policy Paper No. 11 (Sep. 2005)

Alyson J. K. Bailes: The European Security Strategy: An Evolutionary History; SIPRI Policy Paper No. 10 (Feb. 2005). (pdf, 156 KB)

William Hopkinson:Sizing and Shaping European Armed Forces; SIPRI Policy Paper No. 7 (pdf, 204 KB)

Zdzislaw Lachowski: Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the New Europe; SIPRI Research Report No. 18 (2004).

Alyson J. K. Bailes and Isabel Frommelt (eds.): Business and Security. Public and Private Sector Relationships in a New Security Environment (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004).

Alyson J. K. Bailes, Oleksiy Melnyk and Ian Anthony: Relics of Cold War. Europe´s Challenge, Ukraine´s Experience; SIPRI Policy Paper No. 6 (Nov. 2003). (pdf 488 KB)

Alyson J. K. Bailes, Björn Hagelin, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Sam Perlo-Freeman, Petter Stålenheim and Dmitri Trofimov: Armament and Disarmament in the Caucasus and Central Asia, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 3 (July 2003)

 

2. SIPRI Yearbook chapters

SIPRI Yearbook 2006 chapters

· Alyson J. K. Bailes: The world of security and peace research in a 40-year perspective

·Pál Dunay and Zdzislaw Lachowski: Euro-Atlantic security and institutions (pdf, 296 KB)

·Pál Dunay: Status and statehood in the Western Balkans

·Alyson J.K. Bailes and Andrew Cottey: Regional security cooperation in the early 21st century (pdf, 244 KB)

·Zdzislaw Lachowski: Conventional arms control (pdf, 1,5 MB)

SIPRI Yearbook 2005 chapters

· Alyson J. K. Bailes: Global security governance: a world of change and challenge (pdf, 188 KB)

·Pál Dunay and Zdzislaw Lachowski: Euro-Atlantic security and institutions (pdf, 296 KB)

·Zdzislaw Lachowski and Pál Dunay: Conventional arms control and military confidence building (pdf, 192 KB)

SIPRI Yearbook 2004 chapters

· Alyson J. K. Bailes: Iraq: The Legacy (pdf, 136 KB)

·Pál Dunay and Zdzislaw Lachowski: The Euro-Atlantic organizations and relationships (pdf 188 KB)

· Zdzislaw Lachowski and Martin Sjögren: Conventional arms control (pdf, 148 KB)

SIPRI Yearbook 2003 chapters

· Alyson J. K. Bailes: Trends and challenges in international security (pdf 96 KB)

· Ian Anthony, Alyson J. K. Bailes, Shannon Kile and Zdzislaw Lachowski The Euro-Atlantic system and global security (pdf 392 KB)

· Renata Dwan and Zdzislaw Lachowski: The military and security dimensions of the European Union (pdf 116 KB)

· Zdzislaw Lachowski: Conventional arms control in Europe (pdf 132 KB)

 

3. Selected contributions to conferences, seminars and non-SIPRI publications

Gunilla Herolf: ´National and Supranational Actors in European Foreign Policy´ in K Y Nikolov (ed.) Adopting to Integration in an Enlarged European Union (Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA), 2008

Gunilla Herolf: ´Values, Interests and Geopolitical Realities: What Matters in Euro-Atlantic Security Policy?´ in J Hedenskog and V Lavrenyuk (eds), Comparing the Baltic and Black Sea Regions: Regional Security, Energy Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Proceedings of the conference in Kyiv 24 April 2007, FOI and CIRS, Base Data Report, June 2007

Pál Dunay: Turkey and ESDP, Report

Pál Dunay: Perspectives for Cooperative Aerial Observation and the Treaty on Open Skies, Report(pdf 152 KB)

SIPRI Report onThe Relevance of Conventional Arms Control in Europe (pdf 606 KB)

4. SIPRI Project Papers

Kristof Fabry: The European Arrest Warrant: no security without human rights, September 2007

Ruslan Maksutov: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Central Asian Perspective, August 2006 (pdf 508 KB)

 

 

5. Forthcoming publications

Zdzislaw Lachowski: Completing the Arms Control Job in Europe: the Adaptation of the CFE Treaty (working title, summer 2008)

 

 

6. Related SIPRI contributions

Tryggve Kalland: The EU-Russia Relationship: What is Missing?, April 2004 (pdf 172 KB)

 

7. Documentation

For further information regarding arms control documents, see:

Josef Goldblat. Arms Control: The New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements. 2nd ed. PRIO/SIPRI, SAGE: 2002(summary and ordering information)

 

European agreements

- The Adapted Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (Adapted CFE Treaty, pdf 138K)

- Implementation of the CFE Treaty - Weapons holdings and ceilings

- The Vienna Document 1999 on Confidence and Security-Building Measures (VD99)

 

Sub-regional agreements

- 1996 Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control concerning Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Bosnia and Herzegovina and its entities the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, and Croatia ('Florence Agreement', pdf 63K)

 

Global agreements

- 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (APM Convention)

- 1980 Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW, pdf 38K)

 

Links




Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

Center for Security Studies - Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule, Zürich (CSS - ETH)

Centre for OSCE Research(CORE)

International Security Information Service - Europe (ISIS Europe)

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

The European Policy Centre (EPC)

The European Union (EU)

Foreign Ministry of Sweden (MFA)

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

The Security and Defence Agenda (formerly New Defence Agenda) (SDA)

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Swedish Institute for International Affairs (UI)

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)