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The use of force in a changing world
The 1990s witnessed an increasingly heated international discussion about humanitarian intervention and what obligations states had to secure the rights of individuals in cases where governments systematically sought to deny even the most basic human rights to life, food, or shelter. The present debate about how to deal with the threat posed by catastrophic terrorism - the combination of terrorists, tyrants, and technologies of mass destruction - is in many ways an extension of this earlier (...)
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The control on weapons of mass destruction
Facing the complex and changing reality of threats stemming from the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), to which international terrorism added new ramifications after September 11th, European countries are directly involved, as well as the European Union as such. Two essential questions in this regard are posed : the first one concerns the differences between the United States and Europe in terms of threat perceptions, where there is much to think about ; the second (...)
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The European Union’s Policy of Security and Defence
The European Union has recently committed itself towards a defence policy. If it fails, the whole current European enterprise would certainly receive a severe blow. Yet, this project remains fragile, submitted to differences in perspectives, pitting Europeans against each other in key subjects, as in the Iraq crisis, for instance. It also remains thwarted by the hostility of a fraction of national bureaucracies, as well as misunderstood by the opinion. It must be admitted that this project (...)
