Policy Impact Assessment Report on the NATO Building Integrity Programme

Policy Impact Assessment Report on the NATO Building Integrity Programme
Author: Marina Caparini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2018
Genre: Corruption
ISBN:

This report examines the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Building Integrity (BI) Programme, a defence capacity-building programme that aims to provide NATO member states, partners and other states with tailored support to reduce the risk of corruption and enhance the understanding and practice of good governance in their defence establishments. The main finding is that the programme is viewed as necessary and highly beneficial by many stakeholders, with numerous changes implemented since 2014 among participating states. Challenges include sustaining the momentum of reforms, fostering greater transparency, and broadening participation while mitigating the political instrumentalization of participation in the programme. The report recommends that the process be further refined, communications improved and new tools developed. Expert networks in defence integrity are encouraged, as well as widening engagement of member states. Finally, regular monitoring and evaluation should be conducted.

Unwinnable

Unwinnable
Author: Theo Farrell
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473522404

Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead, in the years that followed, Britain paid a devastating price for their presence in Helmand province. So why did Britain enter, and remain, in an ill-fated war? Why did it fail so dramatically, and was this expedition doomed from the beginning? Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports, government documents and senior individuals, Professor Theo Farrell provides an extraordinary work of scholarship. He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict and learn the lessons of history that ultimately led to devastating costs and repercussions still relevant today. 'The best book so far on Britain's...war in Afghanistan' International Affairs 'Masterful, irrefutable... Farrell records all these military encounters with the irresistible pace of a novelist' Sunday Times

Global Trends 2040

Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646794973

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

The European Security and Defense Policy

The European Security and Defense Policy
Author: Robert E. Hunter
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2002-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0833032283

The emergence of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) in the last two-thirds of the 1990s and continuing into the new century, has been a complex process intertwining politics, economics, national cultures, and numerous institutions. This book provides an essential background for understanding how security issues as between NATO and the European Union are being posed for the early part of the 21st century, including the new circumstances following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. This study should be of interest to those interested in the evolution of U.S.-European relations, especially in, but not limited to, the security field; the development of institutional relationships; and key choices that lie ahead in regard to these critical arrangements.

NATO's Air War for Kosovo

NATO's Air War for Kosovo
Author: Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2001-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0833032372

This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. The author sheds light both on the operation's strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to induce Milosevic to capitulate when he did. He then explores air power's most critical accomplishments in Operation Allied Force as well as the problems that hindered the operation both in its planning and in its execution. Finally, he assesses Operation Allied Force from a political and strategic perspective, calling attention to those issues that are likely to have the greatest bearing on future military policymaking. The book concludes that the air war, although by no means the only factor responsible for the allies' victory, certainly set the stage for Milosevic's surrender by making it clear that he had little to gain by holding out. It concludes that in the end, Operation Allied Force's most noteworthy distinction may lie in the fact that the allies prevailed despite the myriad impediments they faced.

The EU and NATO

The EU and NATO
Author: Gustav Lindström
Publisher:
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2019
Genre: European Union countries
ISBN: 9789291988372

The Iraq Study Group Report

The Iraq Study Group Report
Author: Iraq Study Group (U.S.)
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN:

Presents the findings of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which was formed in 2006 to examine the situation in Iraq and offer suggestions for the American military's future involvement in the region.