EU Naval Force EUNAVFOR MED sets sail in troubled waters. CEPS Commentary, 26 June 2015

Apprehending pirates in the Indian Ocean is one thing. Defeating the networks through which smugglers traffic migrants through North Africa is quite another. The European Union’s new naval force deployment in the Mediterranean - EUNAVFOR MED - drew criticism from international partners and the general public alike when plans for a “boat-sinking” operation were unveiled, raising fears about unacceptable levels of violence and collateral damage; a European version of Mexico’s drug war. Yet the problems of EUNAVFOR MED lie less in clumsy public diplomacy than in the perilous mismatch between its stated objectives and the absence of a clear strategy and mandate, and this creates both operational and political risks for member states. Phase 1 of the operation: surveillance and assessment, has begun with no legal mandate to carry out the crucial phases 2 and 3: seek and destroy, whose military planning and outcomes are undetermined. Despite these limitations, the naval force could nevertheless mark a turning point in the EU’s security narrative, because it means that the Union is finally addressing the threats to security and the humanitarian tragedies in its southern neighbourhood.

Energising the TTIP: Political economy of the trade policy rationale. Paper No. 9 in the CEPS-CTR project “TTIP in the Balance’’and CEPS Special Report No. 113/July 2015

Despite accounting for a significant share of global trade and the resulting interdependencies from it, energy governance remains largely fragmented and there is no global framework or agreement defining the rules of energy trade. This paper, after presenting the main global and regional energy market developments, discusses the opportunities to ‘energise the TTIP’, i.e. to include a chapter dedicated to trade and cooperation in the sphere of energy. The shale revolution in the US, the ever-rising interconnectedness of energy markets (recently proven by the disappearance of the ‘Asian gas premium’) and the EU’s quest to diversify its energy supplies generally sets favourable conditions to reinforce energy relations between the EU and the US. The question, as is often the case, is whether there is sufficient political will to tighten relations in a strategic sphere with connotations for national security and sovereignty.

Handling the Problem of Unbalanced Data Sets in the Classification of Technical Equipment States

Questions of handling unbalanced data considered in this article. As models for classification, PNN and MLP are used. Problem of estimation of model performance in case of unbalanced training set is solved. Several methods (clustering approach and boosting approach) considered as useful to deal with the problem of input data.

Measuring cognitive impairment with large data sets /

"OM91-0512"--P. [80].

[Lecture notes on pure mathematics. Convex sets]

Includes bibliographies.

Catalogue of paintings, including three sets of tapestries,

Mode of access: Internet.

Division of Inland Waters. Rules and regulations governing water supply applications with the provisions of the of the conservation law defining the jurisdiction of the commission over public water supplies. 1912.

Mode of access: Internet.

Feasibility of securing research-defining accident statistics /

September 1978.

An algorithm for fitting related sets of straight-line data /

Includes bibliographies (p. 12).

Generation and comparison of equivalent equation sets in a general purpose simulation and modeling package /

"C00-2383-0018."

Catalogue of library sets : angling literature, art and illustrated books, including the private library of John F. Thompson, of Woodhaven, Long Island, to be sold ... January 19th, 1920 ...

484 items; sale conducted by Thomas E. Kirby.

Defining the manager's job: the AMA manual of position descriptions.

Includes bibliography.

National defense into the 21st century : defining the issues /

"A special report from the Strategic Studies Institute."