Future of European Security and Defence Policy: Cause for Depression or Celebration? September 27, 2009

Daniel Korski: Future of European Security and Defence Policy: Cause for Depression or Celebration?

After ten years of ESDP, 23 missions, but a growing question raised about Europe’s role in Afghanistan, a reluctance by Europeans to commit troops to combat missions, and a patchy record of success in more than half of the EU’s missions, what is the future of ESDP? Is a new concept of mission required? What must be done to beef-up the civilian side of ESDP? And will the Lisbon Treaty help or hinder it?

Daniel Korski joined the European Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Policy Fellow in October 2007. Previously, he was a Senior Adviser in the US State Department, a position he was seconded to by the British Government.

He spent the first quarter of 2007 in Basra in southern Iraq as Head of the UK/US Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). Prior to his US posting, Daniel was the Deputy Head of the UK’s Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit (PCRU), an inter-departmental organization set-up up by the Ministry of Defense, the Foreign Office and Department for International Development. Daniel has also worked in Afghanistan as a Policy Adviser to the Minister for Counter-Narcotics. He remains a Special Adviser to the US project on National Security Reform.

Chair: Xymena Kurowska (Department of International Relations and European Studies)

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