NATO and CSDP communications compared
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André Dumoulin (IRSD) has been known for several years to be one of the most experienced researchers on European defense policy. His last work " Communication, media and defense policies: NATO and CSDP », written with Delphine Deschaux-Beaume (University of Grenoble) and Sylvain Paile (University of Liège), deserves our attention. Because it proceeds from a comparative analysis of the communication policies of NATO and the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) at EU level but also of national media spaces (Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Germany , the Netherlands and Luxembourg), in the most scientific and objective way possible.
A common feeling
A book for which he interviewed most of the specialized "Defence" journalists posted to the European Union and NATO. A common feeling emerges between researchers and journalists, whatever their nationality and their approach... there are "air holes" in the communication and visibility of the CSDP which suffers from a lack of enthusiasm, of will, of continuity.
The poor relative
As Olivier Jehin (from the Europe and Europe Diplomacy Defense agency), who collaborated on the book, writes, on the one hand there is NATO, "real communication machine", and on the other the EU which knows "an existential crisis" (with the economic and monetary crisis) and is reduced as "skin of sorrow". Security and Defense remains " the poor relation of a communication largely dedicated to foreign policy. The High Representative assures minimum service “contenting himself at each ministerial with a few” language elements ". The updating of the website leaves something to be desired. (...). »
This " sail reduction », as André Dumoulin calls it, has several causes. Ashtonian shyness, the coexistence of three European cultures, the lack of means (budgetary and personnel), the real non-cooperation with the national media”. A book to read without acrimony but with attention to learn all the lessons for the future.
• Communication, media and defense policies: NATO and the CSDP, visibility in Belgium and among its neighbors (editions peter long, Security and Non-Proliferation collection, 430 p., €52,40)
