The EU’s annual report on arms export control presently lags behind the national reports of many countries. The introduction of a searchable online database will be a substantial step in increasing the user-friendliness of the report. This paper makes recommendations with regard to readability, ...
It is 2040. Globalisation and ICT solutions have changed the nature of threats faced by the EU. A combination of preventive and response measures is implemented in coordination by security and defence forces with the aid of computers. The role of the anticipatory crime units is rising, together ...
The EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, known as the Brussels Dialogue, started in March 2011 with the aim to ‘normalise’ relations between the two parties, find solutions for long-standing disputes and, consequently, advance their prospects of European integration. The newly ...
The goal of this Handbook is to provide EU practitioners, in particular prosecutors and police authorities, with an overview of EU and international legislation applicable to CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) substances and Explosives and with a description of supranational e...
This study proposes a framework for investigating the relevance of dual use inventions, i.e., military applications of civilian patents. The data collected extends the companion report that focused on the opposite direction of dual use: from military inventions to civilian applications. The anal...
This landscape report describes the state of play of the European Union’s policies and activities in security and defence and the EU-funded research aimed at supporting them, with an exclusive focus on intentional harm. It is organised around several thematic building blocks under the umbrella o...
In response to concerns of losing technological superiority, the US is implementing the Defense Innovation Initiative. This intends to ensure that the Pentagon leverages breakthrough technologies from the traditional defence industrial base and commercial-technology sector alike. Also, what role...
