Call for Papers to the ISMS Conference on Adapting to Change
The Royal Danish Defense College is in November host for the the annual conference in the International Society of Military Sciences (ISMS). The overall theme is Adapting to Change and the conference now calls for paper proposals.

Seminar: NATO after the Pivot - American and European Perspectives on NATO’s Future
Will Europe follow the American pivot towards Asia? Or will the Europeans choose to concentrate on the security challenges in the close proximity to Europe? The seminar in Copenhagen 24th of May will address these two options.

Conference on maritime security off African east coast
The Royal Danish Defence College organizes a conference on good order at sea in East African waters. The conference will be held on Sept. 18-20 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and feature both international experts and relevant African stakeholders.

New report: Cooperating in War - Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan
The report examines key challenges which NATO and the ISAF coalition have faced during the war in Afghanistan by looking at the character of the three core challenges: unity of effort, unity of command and civil-military cooperation.

New brief: Private sector and stabilisation in Afghanistan – a neglected match?
In this brief, Tina Magaard sums up the pivotal findings of the conference “Private sector and stabilisation in Afghanistan – a neglected match?” which among other things focused on the opportunities and challenges of the private sector in Afghanistan.

Open panel discussion on Islamism and Secularism
The Royal Danish Defence College, Institute for Strategy, in cooperation with Roskilde University, is hosting a Panel Discussion on Islamism and Secularism after the Arab Uprisings.

Open seminar on piracy off the Horn of Africa
The Royal Danish Defence College and the East African Security Governance Network group present a seminar on the challenges of piracy off the Horn of Africa and its correlation to different aspects of society.

Open seminar on state-building in post-conflict Somalia
The Royal Danish Defence College and the Centre of African Studies present a seminar on the perspectives for state-building in post-conflict Somalia. The seminar focuses on central issues preventing or restraining state-building in Somalia.

Three articles on US and Chinese concepts of international order
Dr Liselotte Odgaard, Royal Danish Defence College, has just published a number of articles on the conflicting US and Chinese concepts of international order and their implications for international society in three international journals.

New Brief: Battlespace Agility 201: The OODA Moment
Ph.D. William Mitchell illustrates in his brief how cyber technology has affected battlespace agility by increasing the tempo of decision-making dramatically.

The Royal Danish Defence College offers course on African dynamics
For the second consecutive year, the Royal Danish Defence College offers its African Preparation Course. Running from August 19 to September 1, the course aims at giving the participants insight into a number of challenges and dynamics related to Africa.

New Brief: Asymmetric threats at sea: a perspective on three cases
This brief investigates how asymmetry at sea offsets stronger and more sophisticated opponents by analyzing three scenarios in which asymmetry has been used differently.

The US Pivot Towards Asia-Pacific - Third Time's the Charm?
In his brief, Philip Chr. Ulrich analyses the Obama administration’s new Asia-Pacific strategy and sets it in relation to Post-Cold War US foreign policy.

How Peacemakers end wars
How do peacemakers end wars? New book with contribution from a.o. Peter Viggo Jakobsen from the Royal Danish Defence College’s Institute for Strategy explores the work of ten peacemakers in the Middle East and Balkans.

Contribution to textbook on Security Studies
Peter Viggo Jakobsen from the Royal Danish Defence College’s Institute for Strategy contributes to textbook on Contemporary Security Studies on the subject coercive diplomacy.

New Brief: Security Sector Reform in an Unstable, Fragile State (II/III)
This policy brief by Ph.D. Christian Bayer Tygesen examines central obstacles to effective security sector reform in unstable and fragile state environments and outlines steps to address them.

New Brief: The Effect of National Factors on the Statebuilding Outcome in Fragile, Non-Permissive Environments (I/III)
This brief by Ph.D. Christian Bayer Tygesen presents a crucial lesson on the dynamics of statebuilding in unstable, fragile state environments.

New Brief: Overwhelming Force – A Persistent Concept in US Military Thinking
This brief by M.A. Philip Ulrich is the first in a series, which will analyze how the US Army has been incapable of adapting to the situations facing it, due to the strict adherence to its concept of overwhelming force.

New Brief: Battlespace Agility 101
This brief by Ph.D. William Mitchell presents the methodology Target Network Modelling (TNM) and describes how it can be used to make units more agile in the battlespace.

Military capacity building: Risk-taking in Danish development aid?
The newly established East African Governance Network will host a seminar on military capaticy building. The seminar will take place on the 12th of December 2013. All interested parties are welcome.