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| NATO Secretary General Javier Solana smiles during a press conference following the NATO 50th anniversary summit in Washington D.C., April 1999. It was his last summit as Secretary General (Official NATO photo). |
You could very well have thought that this project was already dead: it's been more than a month since I published the last post; I'm aware. Nevertheless, I have not given up on it, at least not yet. So, I would like to bring you up to speed on the reasons for such a delay.
Truth is, in the last month I've been involved in three different research projects: one on the new forms of understanding power in the 21st Century, one on the future of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (so badly needed these days), and one on the civil-military relations during the first Gulf war. Tight deadlines are making me use time and brain thrust previously devoted to the blog for these projects. Indeed, I have already finished one, and I'm currently halfway through the second. Therefore, I think I won't be able to publish new posts until mid-April. At least, hopefully two of the projects will be published, so that you will be able to read them in due time.
Be as it may, I'm not at all short of ideas for future posts, so that I'm truly looking forward to publishing again. Meanwhile, be sure to follow me on twitter and linkedin, where I do continue to post regularly.
See you very soon,
Enrique.
Ps. So that your read isn't in vain, I have attached what I find as a beautiful and somewhat nostalgic photo I found researching for the essay on the CSDP. It shows then-NATO SG Javier Solana, soon-to-be High Representative of the European Union, laughting during the press conference following the 1999 NATO Washington summit. It was a key summit for the transatlantic relationship because it was there that the alliance as such encouraged European countries to pursue the establishment of an "european pillar" within NATO, paving the way for the establishment of a common defence policy for the European Union.