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ABSTRACT
This article provides an overview of Member States’ key capabilities – namely personnel and technology – in light of main EU goals in conflict prevention and peacebuilding, revealing a heterogeneous landscape. While acknowledging that the EU owns some of these capabilities, the article is primarily intended to highlight the assets and manpower available at the national level, with a view to understanding how these capabilities might better support and strengthen the EU’s role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Relevant data collected through four case studies – France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden – is used to understand if currently available capabilities are adequate to match EU objectives. In the context of the EU’s integrated approach, key policy recommendations are put forward to better integrate national civilian and dual-use capabilities for the creation of a functioning EU early warning/situational awareness system, in order to anticipate, describe and diagnose conflicts, as well as to implement effective responses.
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Notes on contributors
Nicoletta Pirozzi is the Head of IAI programme “EU, politics and institutions” and Institutional relations manager, she works mainly on EU governance, policy and institutional developments in CFSP/CSDP, civilian crisis management, EU relations with the United Nations and the African Union. She is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Science of “Roma Tre” University and Associate Analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EU-ISS) in Paris. In 2012, she has served as Seconded National Expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels. Previously, she has been research fellow in the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme and visiting fellow at EU-ISS. In 2005–2006, she was Project Officer responsible for the Responding to Conflict programme area at the International Security Information Service (ISIS) Europe in Brussels. She also collaborated with the Italian Permanent Representation to the EU and the European Parliament in Brussels. She graduated in Political Science at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. She also obtained an MSc Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a PhD in Institutions and Politics from the Catholic University in Milan.
Bernardo Venturi is a researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), where he focuses on EU civilian crisis management, CFSP/CSDP, peacebuilding, development and African affairs. He holds a PhD at the University of Bologna and he worked for different think-tanks, universities and NGOs. Among his jobs, he is a co-founder of the Agency for Peacebuilding (AP), he was Director of Centro Studi Difesa Civile (CSDC) and an elected member of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) steering committee. Periods of research led him to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), to the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and to the Moldova State University.
Alessandro Marrone is the Head of IAI Defence Programme, as well as a senior fellow in the Security Programme. He has been working at IAI since 2007 and is responsible for research projects funded either by the European Defence Agency, NATO or industries in the aerospace and defence sector. Currently, he works on research projects and publications related to European and transatlantic security as well as to Italian defence policy. He also teaches Strategic Studies course in the International Relations Master’s Degree at the Political Science Department of the University of Perugia. In 2016 he holds a PhD in History of Europe from the Political Science Department of the Sapienza University of Rome. In 2009, he has obtained a Master of Science (MSc) in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previously he got a BA degree in Political Science and an MSc degree in International Relations from the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, in both cases with first class honours. He is a member of the Editorial Board of IAI webzine AffarInternazionali, and collaborates as a freelance journalist with several Italian magazines and web-magazines, including Aspenia online, Eastwest, Rivista Italiana Difesa and Rivista marittima. He is interested in: European security and defence issues and EU role, NATO, Italian defence and foreign policy, European armed forces, defence procurement, defence-related research and technology, European defence industry and market, security in the Mediterranean region.