Meeting the challenge : the European Security Research Agenda. A report from the European Security Research Advisory Board ESRAB.

Since the end of the Cold War, the threat of large-scale military aggression has subsided and been substituted by new threats which are multifaceted, interrelated, complex and increasingly transnational in their impact. These were laid out in the European security strategy (1) to include organised crime, terrorism, state failure, regional confl icts and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Implementing the European security strategy requires a comprehensive suite of internal and external security instruments covering intelligence, police, judicial, economic, financial, diplomatic and technological means. Research and technology can play a supporting role as a force enabler but cannot alone guarantee security. (Author/publisher)