The growth of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of theEuropean Union, and in particular its military dimension during recent years,has been the subject of much public debate. Meanwhile, the paralleldevelopment of an external intelligence structure in the Council of the EU hashardly been noticed.The present book assesses the significance of intelligence co-operationbetween Member States in a Union that is assuming increasing responsibilityin the international security environment, and its implications for existingsecurity alliances. It describes the founding process of the strategicintelligence assessment unit, the so-called "Situation Centre" (SITCEN), in theCouncil of the EU and seeks to explain its organisation and the types andsources of intelligence that it assesses.While the study examines the main political and practical obstacles toenhanced sharing of intelligence, it argues that the potential strengths of afully integrated European intelligence function, within and outside the Union,make the establishment of a Central European Intelligence Agency inevitablein the long term.
The growth of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of theEuropean Union, and in particular its military dimension during recent years,has been the subject of much public debate. Meanwhile, the paralleldevelopment of an external intelligence structure in the Council of the EU hashardly been noticed.The present book assesses the significance of intelligence co-operationbetween Member States in a Union that is assuming increasing responsibilityin the international security environment, and its implications for existingsecurity alliances. It describes the founding process of the strategicintelligence assessment unit, the so-called "Situation Centre" (SITCEN), in theCouncil of the EU and seeks to explain its organisation and the types andsources of intelligence that it assesses.While the study examines the main political and practical obstacles toenhanced sharing of intelligence, it argues that the potential strengths of afully integrated European intelligence function, within and outside the Union,make the establishment of a Central European Intelligence Agency inevitablein the long term.
This book sets out to describe the development of European Political Co-operation (EPC), tracing the influences, procedures, and political pressures which have made it what it is today.
In this book, first published in 1981, the authors trace and analyse the growth of transnational party co-operation and the factors important to it during the years before and immediately following...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...
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