Judy Asks: Can Europe Defeat the Islamic State?

Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. This week 'Can Europe Defeat the Islamic State?'.

The experts are:

+ Cornelius Adebahr - Associate in Carnegie’s Europe Program
+ Federiga Bindi - Senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
+ François Heisbourg - Special adviser at the Foundation for Strategic Research
+ Lina Khatib - Senior research associate at the Arab Reform Initiative
+ Andrew Michta - Professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
+ Gianni Riotta - Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
+ James Rogers - Director of the Department of Political and Strategic Studies at the Baltic Defence College and co-founder of European Geostrategy
+ Marietje Schaake - Vice-chair of the Delegation for Relations With the United States in the European Parliament
+ Ulrich Speck - Senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy
+ Stephen Szabo - Executive director of the Transatlantic Academy
+ Nathalie Tocci - Deputy director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Europe’s Foreign Policy Reaction to the Paris Attacks? Noise http://www.europeansources.info/record/europes-foreign-policy-reaction-to-the-paris-attacks-noise/

ESO: Background information: Letter to President François Hollande of France from European Council President Donald Tusk on the attacks in Paris / Joint statement of the Heads of State or Government and leaders of the European Union and its institutions on the terrorist attacks in Paris http://www.europeansources.info/record/countries-rethink-commitments-to-accept-refugees/

ESO: Background information: Paris Attacks Come at a Dangerous Moment for Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/paris-attacks-come-at-a-dangerous-moment-for-europe/

Euro|Topics: Main Focus, 19.11.15: Paris and Moscow wage war on IS http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/archiv/archiv_dossier/DOSSIER173545-Paris-and-Moscow-wage-war-on-IS

ECFR: Commentary, 17.11.15: Forging a European resolve http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_forging_a_european_resolve5014

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