1. 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
jbergenas@stimson.org

3. What Methods and Strategies to Ensure Impact?
Example: Stimson “dual benefit” model for nonproliferation and
counterterrorism capacity building
 European Security Strategy  How to bridge this divide in practice?
- Terrorism (“Security is a precondition of
- WMD Nonproliferation development”)
 - WMD nonproliferation assistance for
Development and human security
challenges/needs border/export controls  small arms
or drug trafficking prevention
- Arms/drug/human trafficking
- Terrorist border movement
- Gangs surveillance  human trafficking
- Criminality monitoring
- Public health - Response capabilities to biological
- Trade weapons  functioning public health
infrastructure

4. Pragmatic methods and strategies to ensure Impact: Africa

6. 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

7. European Global Strategy: Future Strategic Direction?