Written by Marcin Grajewski,

As foreseen in the European Union’s updated global strategy, the Union aims to play a stronger role in international affairs and conflict resolution, to reinforce a rules-based global order in an increasingly complex world and to better coordinate internal and external actions to bolster security and defence.
The document, entitled “Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe“, was presented in June by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. It seeks to make the Union more “credible, responsive and joined-up.” Faced with growing instability in its neighbourhood and internal crises, the strategy envisages boosting EU efforts on defence, cyber-security, counter-terrorism, energy security and strategic communications.
This note offers links to recent commentaries and studies from major international think on the EU’s global strategy and related issues. More papers on the same topic can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are thinking’, published in May.
European Strategy in times of geopolitical interdependence
Fundacion Real Instituto Elcano, September 2016
The EU’s joined-up approach to security
Clingendael, September 2016
Les intérêts stratégiques de l’Union européenne
Fondation Robert Schuman, September 2016
EU Global Strategy: From design to implementation
Clingendael, August 2016
The Global Strategy for the EU’s foreign and security policy
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, August 2016
Rethinking international institutions: Diplomacy and impact on emerging world order
Clingendael, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, August 2016
EU global strategy under threat from division at home
European Council on Foreign Relations, August 2016
A global strategy for a soul-searching European Union
European Policy Centre, July 2016
The EU Global Strategy: From effective multilateralism to global governance that works?
Egmont, July 2016
After the EUGS: Specifying the military tasks
European Union Institute for Security Studies, July 2016
After the EUGS: Mainstreaming a new CSDP
European Union Institute for Security Studies, July 2016
After the EUGS: Connecting the dots
European Union Institute for Security Studies, July 2016
The EU Global Strategy and defense: Ambitious but credible?
Carnegie Europe, July 2016
Implications of the EU Global Strategy for the Middle East and North Africa
Istituto Affari Internazionali, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, July 2016
The EU Global Strategy in the shadow of Brexit
Carnegie Europe, July 2016
Going global, targeting the home front
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige, July 2016
The EU Global Strategy, a triumph of hope over experience
Carnegie Europe, July 2016
The EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy: A Short guide for the perplexed
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, July 2016
The EU’s New Global Strategy: Useful or pointless?
Carnegie Europe, July 2016
The EU Global Strategy: Going beyond effective multilateralism?
European Policy Centre, Egmont, June 2016
A new strategy: Implications for CSDP
Clingendael, June 2016
The EU Global Strategy: Realpolitik with European characteristics
Egmont, June 2016
The new great game: An opportunity for the EU’s Common and Foreign Security Policy
European Institute for Asian Studies, June 2016
A global strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy
European Union Institute for Security Studies, June 2016
A new EU strategic approach to global development, resilience and sustainability
Istituto Affari Internazionali, European Centre for Development Policy Management, May 2016
Global complexity: Intersection of chessboard and web trends
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, May 2016
Embedding NATO into the European Union Global Strategy: the missing link?
EUROPEUM, May 2016
European Union in the World 2025: Scenarios for External Relations
Dahrendorf Forum, May 2016
A global strategy for a global player? Shaping the EU’s role in the world
College of Europe, April 2016
Related publications:
Strengthening the EU’s External Action: The need for an EU food diplomacy?
Istituto Affari Internazionali, July 2016
The long road for rising democracies and democracy support
Carnegie Europe, July 2016
Effective minilateralism for the EU: What, when and how
European Union Institute for Security Studies, June 2016
2016 Security Jam: Beyond conventional security challenges
Friends of Europe, June 2016
Oil price volatility and the implications for European Foreign and Security Policy
Istituto Affari Internazionali, June 2016
EU foreign policy in a changing climate: A climate and energy strategy for Europe’s long-term security
E3G, June 2016
European security: A defining moment?
Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, June 2016
Absorb and conquer: An EU approach to Russian and Chinese integration in Eurasia
European Council on Foreign Relations, May 2016
The return of geopolitics to Southeast Europe
Institute for Development and International Relations, Hanns Seidel Stiftung, May 2016
Russia: A test for Transatlantic unity
Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, May 2016
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