Military - New Material (52)
01 March 2005
Die Europäische Verteidigungsagentur [The European Defence Agency], Wolfgang Hermann. Europäische Sicherheit 4/2005 pp. 23-25.
Die Situation der EU in ihrer geplanten strategischen Uberdehnung [The situation of the EU in its planned Strategic Superextension], Erich Reiter. Europäische Sicherheit 4/2005 pp. 34-43. Geopolitical and strategic aspects of the proposed Turkish entry into the EU.
Report of Space and Security Panel of Experts. March 2005. The panel was convened by the EC in June 2004 to provide the Commission with a report on the security issues raised in the White Paper on European Space Policy and make proposals for inclusion of security capabilities in the European Space Programme. The panel considered civil/military issues like response to terrorism, natural disasters, industrial accidents and shared threats to be within the scope of its work.
End this bloody trade, Emma Mayhew. Red Pepper March 2005, pp19-21. This article considers the practice of subsidising the arms industry and argues that it not only undermines human rights, fuels conflict and costs lives, but is economically and politically damaging for the UK.
EU security and defence Volume V - Core Documents 2004. ISS Chaillot Paper No. 75, February 2005.
The democratic legitimacy of European Security and Defence Policy, Wolfgang Wagner. ISS Occasional Paper 57, April 2005.
Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project (BNLWRP), Neil Davison & Nick Lewer. Research report No. 7, (University of Bradford) 2005, pp. 77. The BNLWRP was established at Bradford University's department of Peace Studies in 1995 and its objectives are to monitor and review so-called “non-lethal” weapons and highlight the ethical questions that arise from the research, development and use of such weapons. This issue contains an article on the Non-Lethal Defense VI conference in Virginia, USA, where a military policeman, recently returned from Camp Bucca in Iraq, gave a presentation in which he discusses the role of NLWs as a "punishment tool". There is an extensive update on the various NLW technologies and a comprehensive bibliographical overview. Available from:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BNLWRPResearchReportNo7_May05.pdf