Le domaine de l’information et de la communication en matière de sécurité et de défense reste un sujet complexe et délicat. La relation entre décideurs, médias et opinion publique nationale doit être analysée en tenant compte des professionnels du message venant de l’UE et de l’OTAN. Les contributions empiriques rapportées dans cet ouvrage permettent d’éclairer quelque peu les différentes facettes de cette relation. Il s’agit ici d’interroger l’espace belge mais également les pays frontaliers – France, Royaume-Uni, Allemagne, Pays-Bas et Luxembourg – à travers l’examen de la visibilité des organisations de sécurité et de défense dans les médias et à travers les thématiques retenues par les parlements nationaux. Cette comparaison a pu être mise en perspective avec l’examen des stratégies de communication des acteurs officiels, l’information offerte au sein du Collège européen de sécurité et de défense et du Collège de l’OTAN, le bilan de la présidence belge dans le domaine et les perceptions journalistiques spécialisées sur les politiques officielles de communication et de diplomatie publique. L’objectif final dans cette « recherche-action » est de mettre en évidence des propositions et recommandations pour tenter d’améliorer autant que faire se peut la visibilité de la Politique européenne de sécurité et de défense et de celle de l’Alliance atlantique.

The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 as an annual two-day gathering of young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds, including lawyers, economists and political scientists, from relevant national authorities, European institutions, scientific centres and industry. Its members are invited to discuss their respective viewpoints on the European trade of sensitive goods, focusing on the strategic issues confronting this sector in a rapidly evolving international context.In December 2013, at its fourth conference, the Group met with African experts to debate the question of how African countries control the trade of dual-use items and the challenges they face in their search for effective regulations. The objective was to study whether international norms and experiences, pertaining both to states and to organisations, could be used as standardised models for African countries affected by unique security concerns.This volume analyses and discusses those trade control systems which could be described as «models» and might therefore serve as a standard to be exported to the African countries in question. The debate is multi-levelled and studies the possibility of setting universal, regional or even-sub-regional norms.The contributors to this book, who display a wide variety of expertise, call for the adoption of norms which they argue have the potential to reconcile freedom of trade with international security, without presuming that these norms should be universal.

In 2010, the European Studies Unit of the University of Liege, under the aegis of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, invited young researchers from all over Europe to meet and discuss the existing rules governing the trade of items that may be used for both peaceful and non-peaceful purposes. During a two-day conference held in Chaudfontaine, Belgium, each participant presented the export control system of his or her member state. Debates took place with eminent specialists, representatives of the European institutions and representatives from industry on the challenges faced by European states when trying to reconcile trade performance and global international security. The potential role played by the European Union in the regulation of this so-called «sensitive trade», as well as the past, present and future of European harmonisation over this issue, was also at the core of the discussion. This book brings together these contributions from a wide variety of member states and demonstrates that the future of the European motto, «United in Diversity», lies in greater coherence on international issues. Initiatives such as this newly created «Chaudfontaine Group» will undoubtedly contribute to this achievement.

Le domaine de l’information et de la communication en matière de sécurité et de défense reste un sujet complexe et délicat. La relation entre décideurs, médias et opinion publique nationale doit être analysée en tenant compte des professionnels du message venant de l’UE et de l’OTAN. Les contributions empiriques rapportées dans cet ouvrage permettent d’éclairer quelque peu les différentes facettes de cette relation. Il s’agit ici d’interroger l’espace belge mais également les pays frontaliers – France, Royaume-Uni, Allemagne, Pays-Bas et Luxembourg – à travers l’examen de la visibilité des organisations de sécurité et de défense dans les médias et à travers les thématiques retenues par les parlements nationaux. Cette comparaison a pu être mise en perspective avec l’examen des stratégies de communication des acteurs officiels, l’information offerte au sein du Collège européen de sécurité et de défense et du Collège de l’OTAN, le bilan de la présidence belge dans le domaine et les perceptions journalistiques spécialisées sur les politiques officielles de communication et de diplomatie publique. L’objectif final dans cette « recherche-action » est de mettre en évidence des propositions et recommandations pour tenter d’améliorer autant que faire se peut la visibilité de la Politique européenne de sécurité et de défense et de celle de l’Alliance atlantique.

The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 as an annual two-day gathering of young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds, including lawyers, economists and political scientists, from relevant national authorities, European institutions, scientific centres and industry. Its members are invited to discuss their respective viewpoints on the European trade of sensitive goods, focusing on the strategic issues confronting this sector in a rapidly evolving international context.In December 2013, at its fourth conference, the Group met with African experts to debate the question of how African countries control the trade of dual-use items and the challenges they face in their search for effective regulations. The objective was to study whether international norms and experiences, pertaining both to states and to organisations, could be used as standardised models for African countries affected by unique security concerns.This volume analyses and discusses those trade control systems which could be described as «models» and might therefore serve as a standard to be exported to the African countries in question. The debate is multi-levelled and studies the possibility of setting universal, regional or even-sub-regional norms.The contributors to this book, who display a wide variety of expertise, call for the adoption of norms which they argue have the potential to reconcile freedom of trade with international security, without presuming that these norms should be universal.

In 2010, the European Studies Unit of the University of Liege, under the aegis of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, invited young researchers from all over Europe to meet and discuss the existing rules governing the trade of items that may be used for both peaceful and non-peaceful purposes. During a two-day conference held in Chaudfontaine, Belgium, each participant presented the export control system of his or her member state. Debates took place with eminent specialists, representatives of the European institutions and representatives from industry on the challenges faced by European states when trying to reconcile trade performance and global international security. The potential role played by the European Union in the regulation of this so-called «sensitive trade», as well as the past, present and future of European harmonisation over this issue, was also at the core of the discussion. This book brings together these contributions from a wide variety of member states and demonstrates that the future of the European motto, «United in Diversity», lies in greater coherence on international issues. Initiatives such as this newly created «Chaudfontaine Group» will undoubtedly contribute to this achievement.