A common European export policy for defence and dual-use items?
A common European export policy for defence and dual-use items?
A common European export policy for defence and dual-use items?
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A COMMON EUROPEAN EXPORT POLICY<br />
FOR DEFENCE AND DUAL-USE ITEMS?<br />
Burkard Schmitt *<br />
*<br />
Burkard Schmitt is currently a research fellow at the Institute <strong>for</strong> Security Studies of WEU. He was <strong>for</strong>merly<br />
an independent researcher <strong>and</strong> journalist, writing in particular on the Franco-German relationship, the French<br />
Fifth Republic <strong>and</strong> nuclear deterrence. At the Institute <strong>for</strong> Security Studies he covers nuclear issues, <strong>defence</strong><br />
industry <strong>and</strong> armaments cooperation, organising a <strong>defence</strong> industries task <strong>for</strong>ce. Institute publications include<br />
Chaillot Papers 44, ‘Between cooperation <strong>and</strong> competition: the transatlantic <strong>defence</strong> market’ (ed.) <strong>and</strong> 40,<br />
‘From cooperation to integration: <strong>defence</strong> <strong>and</strong> aerospace industries in Europe’, <strong>and</strong> Occasional Papers 3,<br />
‘L’Europe et la dissuasion nucléaire’ <strong>and</strong> 18, ‘National missile <strong>defence</strong> <strong>and</strong> the future of nuclear <strong>policy</strong>’<br />
(joint ed.).