European Defense Revisited / The United Kingdom and the EU: in or out?
Politique étrangère, Vol. 80, No. 1, Spring 2015
FOCUS European Defense Revisited
Finally Something New in European Defense by Vivien Pertusot
Could Differentiated Integration Unblock the CSDP? by Ronja Kempin and Ronja Scheler
“Minilateralism”: A New Form of Defense Cooperation by Alice Pannier
Sharing Military Capabilities: Dead-End or Future of Defense? by Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen and Sten Rynning
COUNTERPOINT The United Kingdom and the EU: in or out?
Europe’s English Patient by Alain Lamassoure (read the article in French)
Would Europe, Freed from the Perfidious Albion, Lose its Way? by Philippe Moreau Defarges
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Afghanistan’s Difficult Transition by Jean-Luc Racine
Tunisia’s Armed Forces and Democratic Transition by Mourad Chabbi
BAROMETER
Australia: A New Strategy for a Medium-Size Power by Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Bruno Hellendorff and Alexia Honoré
The United States - South Korea Military Alliance in Question by Rémy Hémez
Volcanic Activity and Nuclear Security in Japan by Jean-François Heimburger
DEBATE
Crimea: The Contradictions of Russia’s Line by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer (read the article in French)
The Western Balkans and the Failure of European Enlargement by Jean-Arnault Dérens
BOOK REVIEWS
World Order by Henry Kissinger, review by Tristan Aureau
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