Gerrard Quille

International Security Information Service, Europe (ISIS EUROPE)

 

 

 


Dr. Gerrard Quille is Deputy Director and Post-Doctoral Researcher on the European Commission funded project entitled 'Bridging the Accountability Gap in European Security and Defence Policy' at the International Security Information Service (ISIS) Europe, Brussels.

Previously he served as Deputy Director of ISIS UK, London where he was also a Research Associate at the Centre for Defence Studies (CDS) on a multinational project led by Prof. Air Marshal Sir Timothy Garden and Prof. Michael Clarke entitled 'Achieving the European Union's Helsinki Headline Goal.'

As well as a degree (BA Hons) in History and an MA in International Politics and Security Studies, he has completed an Economic and Social Research Council funded PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Malcolm Chalmers at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, on the role and conduct of Defence Reviews as a mechanism in the UK's management of defence, in particular the thesis looked at the UK's 1998 Strategic Defence Review (SDR).

His current research and publications continue to focus on the following areas:

· Defence management in the EU's European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
· The relationship between the EU's Security Strategy and defence policy, operations and procurement;
· The EU's emerging Strategy in Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
· British Defence Policy post-1998 Strategic Defence Review (SDR)

Publications:

Quille, G.& Missiroli, A., 'European Security In Flux', in Cameron, F (ed) 'The Future of European Security', Routledge, 2003 (forthcoming).

Quille, G & Mawdsley, J. (2003). Equipping the Rapid Reaction Force: Options for and Constraints on a European Defence Equipment Strategy. BICC Paper 33. Bonn, Autumn 2003.

Quille, Gerrard. Pullinger, Stephen, Mawdsley, Jocelyn et al. 2003. Defence Equipment for European Crisis Management. European Parliament Working Papers No. 123. POLI. March 2003.

'The Role of Parliaments in Strengthening the EU's response to Violent Conflict', The European Parliament, Brussels for the European Platform for Conflict Prevention (EPLO), 14 November 2002.

'The Revolution in Military Affairs Debate and Non-Lethal Weapons', in Nick Lewer (Ed): 'The Future of Non-Lethal Weapons: Technologies, Operations, Ethics and Law', Frank Cass Publishers, London, 2002, pp. 39-52.

'Holding Defence Policy to Account in the UK', Paper presented to RTN Workshop, Bonn, June 2002.

'ESDP Military Capabilities: Debate and Developments', Paper presented NUPI, Oslo, April 2002.

'Defence and Public Opinion in the UK' Presentation (Strasbourg) and Publication for CIDAN, Paris, 2001.

The Revolution in Military Affairs: some considerations for Non-Lethal Weapons', Journal of Medicine, Conflict and Survival, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2001. Based on a paper given to an International Conference on Non-Lethal Weapons,
Edinburgh, December 2000.

Report for The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT), 'Handling Conflict Consultation', 1999

Various papers to the IRSRG Bradford: British Defence Policy: A Framework of Analysis; 'Origins of UK's policy of force projection'; and in march 2001 'British Defence Policy: A Force for Good?'

'NATO Enlargement', ISIS Briefing Paper, No. 68 , December 1998.

Projects:

'Defence Capabilities for EU Crisis Management'. Project commissioned by the European Parliament, September - December 2002, Brussels. 50 page Report submitted January 2003 which informed the European Parliament Report by MEP Morrillon;

'ESDP and Terrorism.' Experts Roundtable. Project of the European Parliament, Brussels, October 2002;

'New Combatants' report for the UK MoD's Joint Doctrine and Concept Centre's (JDCC) and the UK's new Strategic Planning Process, 2002.

'Achieving the Helsinki Headline Goals'. Research Associate on the project commissioned by the UK's Ministry of Defence. Project led by Prof. Michael Clarke and Air Marshall Sir Timothy Garden, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London, November, 2001.

'European Military Security', Consultant to a Project led by Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (CeMiSS), Rome, Italy, July 2002.

Editor of ISIS Publications including Policy Papers, Policy Briefs and Parliamentary analysis as well as the bi-monthly journal NATO Notes and (between June 02 to April 03) the European Security Review

 
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