TOWARDS A MORE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY:
What Methods and Strategies to Ensure Impact?
Johan Bergenäs
Deputy Director
Managing Across Boundaries Program
Stimson Center
What Methods and Strategies to Ensure Impact?Example: Stimson “dual benefit” model for
nonproliferation and counterterrorism capacity building
European Security Strategy- Terrorism- WMD Nonproliferation
Development and human security challenges/needs
- Arms/drug/human trafficking- Gangs- Criminality- Public health- Trade
How to bridge this divide in practice? (“Security is a precondition of development”)
- WMD nonproliferation assistance for border/export controls small arms or drug trafficking prevention
- Terrorist border movement surveillance human trafficking monitoring
- Response capabilities to biological weapons functioning public health infrastructure
Pragmatic methods and strategies to ensure Impact: Africa
Model’s overall goals and applicability
Bridge the security/development divide
Reinforce the multilateral system
Assist donor and partner countries achieve separate, but overlapping objectives, for example
- ESS MDG- ESS Energy/water security- ESS trade facilitation
European Global Strategy: Future Strategic Direction?
