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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • Knowledge Management
    • Security Strategy
    29 January 2026

    Future-proofing Civilian CSDP in a Challenging Strategic Environment: Seven Questions for Debate
    This paper from SIPRI takes a critical look at the state of play for civilian CSDP as a whole and formulates seven questions ranging from the abstract level of prioritisation to the concrete level of recruitment and knowledge management.
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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • Hybrid Threats
    01 April 2025

    Strengthening Resilience in the East – How the EU can empower countries against foreign interference
    The Eastern neighbourhood of the EU has become a primary target for Russian foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), particularly in the EU candidate countries of Georgia and Moldova. A new publication highlights the EU Partnership Mission in Moldova (EUPM Moldova) as an effective model for EU mission planners for designing flexible-mandate missions that can build resilience in host countries against hybrid threats.
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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • EU Institutional Structure
    • Security Strategy
    10 September 2024

    Ten Ideas for the New Team - How the EU can Navigate a Power Political World
    The EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) calls for an urgent revamp of EU Foreign and Security Policy to adapt to the “age of contestation” and the volatile and competitive global landscape. The report provides the new EU leadership with ten ideas to safeguard Europe’s interests and resilience amid rising international threats.
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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    01 September 2024

    The Multistakeholder Initiative Approach to European Crisis Management: Civilian CSDP and Engagement with Local Non-state Actors
    This research article published by a Ph.D. Fellow at the European Security and Defence College examines EUCAP Somalia's practices in cooperation with Non-state actors (NSAs). It finds that current engagement is effective but too informal and insufficient, and encourages development of an official strategy for engagement, formalisation of outreach, and improving communication channels.
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    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    30 January 2024

    Frameworks for Participation Agreements in Crisis Management Missions between the EU and Third States
    Third State participation has been a part of EU civilian CSDP since the first mission was launched in 2003. This index from EUR-Lex of Framework Participation Agreements (FPAs) provides a timeline of the EU’s broadening ties to Third States through a standardised system of bilateral agreements for CSDP. The FPAs regulate important aspects of the relationship between the parties such as initiation and termination of Third State participation, hierarchy and discipline of personnel, confidentiality of shared information, and financing of missions.
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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • Human Rights
    01 January 2024

    The EU Common Security and Defense Policy: Moving Away From Democracy Support
    This think tank article reflects on the recent evolution of CSDP away from the original goals of peacebuilding and strengthening democratic governance and towards Security Sector Reform (SSR), counterterrorism, and border management. The author endorses restoring priority to democracy support in CSDP.
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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • Security Strategy
    18 January 2023

    Implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy – Annual Report 2022
    In this annual report, adopted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), on the state of CSDP, the European Parliament underlines the goals and tools established with the Strategic Compass as part of EU’s answer to the drastically changed security situation in Europe in 2022 and beyond. It assesses the defence initiatives of the EU and the implementation of the civilian CSDP Compact among other things.
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    • Civilian CSDP Compact
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Threats
    • Security Strategy
    • Women, Peace and Security
    01 December 2022

    Implementation of the Strategic Compass: Opportunities, Challenges and Timelines
    This report from the European Parliament was published in December 2022 to review the 51 of 81 deliverables of the EU Strategic Compass that were to be implemented by the end of 2022. General findings are that progress had been made on hybrid and cyber threats, defence spending by member states, use of the European Peace Facility, and international partnerships. Progress in the realm of civilian CSDP included development of the Rapid Deployment Capacity and broadening the network of human rights and gender advisors.
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    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    09 November 2022

    Civilian Operations Commander Operational Guidelines on Civil Society Engagement
    These guidelines aim to operationalise engagement with civil society actors in mission implementation. It contains a toolbox for engagement and checklist for civil society mapping and risk analysis to assist all mission staff to know what to do and how to do it.
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    • Civilian CSDP - JHA Cooperation
    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • Civil-Military Cooperation
    • Climate and Security
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    • Hybrid Threats
    • Peace and Conflict Analysis
    • Security Strategy
    21 March 2022

    A Strategic Compass for Security and Defence
    The Strategic Compass, approved by the Council of the European Union in March 2022, establishes a common strategic vision for the EU’s security and defence and sets concrete and wide-ranging objectives to achieve these goals in the coming 5-10 years.
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