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Event reports and related project documents
By Nick Mabey and Jesse Scott
The implementation of the Lisbon Treaty’s High Representative and the long awaited EU External Action Service has been causing great concern amongst several major civil society organisations.
The current set of Brussels proposals seem to be designed to preclude any chance of a coherent and adequately resourced EU foreign policy that can tackle cross-cutting 21st-century problems.
In order
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By Nick Mabey
More than 10 years ago, the EU launched its Common Foreign Security Policy, following a meeting of leading policy makers and practitioners in security issues, especially conflict prevention and crises response.
Since then, the European Commission continues to bring these experts together bi-annually to continue the discussions. Following the 2007 review of the European Security Strategy, there
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By Nick Mabey
In February 2009, E3G’s CEO Nick Mabey spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars exploring a possible Transatlantic Agenda for addressing climate security threats.
Issue of National Security
There is a growing consensus that climate change is a serious national security threat. This threat has been brought to light by a steady drumbeat of reports, analyses, and
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By Nick Mabey
The reality of climate change will require fundamental changes to the practice of international relations.
Impacting on strategic interests, alliances, borders, threats, economic relationships, comparative advantages and the nature of international cooperation, climate change geopolitics will extend far outside the environment sphere, and will link old problems in new ways. Managing the
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By Nick Mabey
22nd May saw the launch of a new International Taskforce for Preventive Diplomacy, an initiative of the EastWest Institute.
E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey is the Vice Chair of this new group, which will be looking for practical ways to improve preventative diplomacy and reduce the risk of conflict and instability. It will particularly focus on the role of scarce natural resources, climate
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By Shane Tomlinson
Clive Bates of the UK’s Environment Agency attended our session at DFID today on Global Public Goods, and was sufficiently stimulated to make a post about it on his own blog.
Clive also refers to us as “ubiquitous penseurs of globalisation”, but I’m not sure if that is a
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