Events

EUSA Conference 9-11 May 2013 – Baltimore, US

9 May – Panel Session 1 -  8:30 – 10:15 a.m

CSDP: Challenges of Coherence, Legitimacy and Cooperation

Chair: Ronja Kempin (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)
Discussant: David Galbreath (University of Bath)

Hylke Dijkstra (University of Oxford) – CSDP and the Global Context: An Ecology Perspective on EU Strategy

Simon Sweeney (University of York) – Legitimacy and the EU Common Security and Defence Policy: the credibility gap between rhetoric and results

Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University) – The European Commission and the Internal / External Security Divide: Implications for Normative Power Europe

Alistair Shepherd (Aberystwyth University)  – The Internal-External Security Continuum and EU Strategy

9 May Panel Session 3 – 2:00 – 3:45 p.m

A More Active CSDP?: EU and Member State Perspectives

Chair: Laura Chappell (University of Surrey)
Discussant: Richard Whitman (University of Kent)

Manuel Muniz (University of Oxford) – The strategic motivation of the European Union’s Military Missions

Moritz Reinsch (LSE) – Re-evaluating the EU’s strategic culture within the context of operation Atalanta

Ronja Kempin (SWP)/ Stefan Steinicke (SWP) – The EU’s engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategizing by default?

Adrian Treacher (University of Sussex)French Perspectives on the CSDP: Past, Present, Future

9 May – Panel Session 4 – 4:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Between Strategy and Capability Initiatives: Creating a More Capable CSDP

Chair: Alistair Shepherd (Aberystwyth University)
Discussant: Adrian Treacher (University of Sussex)

Laura Chappell (University of Surrey)/ Petar Petrov (Maastricht University) – Building Shelters or Windmills: EU Defence Capability Development in the Storm of the Financial Crisis

André Barrinha (University of Coimbra) – European Strategic Culture and the post-modern use of military force

David J. Galbreath (University of Bath) – Birds of a Feather? Pooling and Power Projection through an EU Navy