@article{2018:biscop:pesco_str,
title = {PESCO, Strategic Autonomy, and Ambition},
year = {2018},
note = {Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) is the means to achieve
strategic autonomy, as demanded by the EU Global Strategy. The EU
habitually downplays its own ambitions though, and appears beholden to
the reticence expressed by its U.S. ally. In spite of its rhetoric,
the capability implications of strategic autonomy have not actually
been defined. As a result, PESCO is to some extent operating in a
void. The EU should decide on the core tasks that it wants to be
capable of performing alone, if necessary, and translate these into a
list of operations that it should be able to conduct concurrently.},
journal = {S&F Sicherheit und Frieden},
pages = {191--195},
author = {Biscop, Sven},
volume = {36},
number = {4}
}