The Directorate of Cooperation of Security and Defence (in French : Direction de la coopération de sécurité et de défense) is a structure belonging to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI), intended to develop international structural cooperation in the fields of defense, internal security and civil protection. With an overall budget of €100 million over 105 programs and 209, the DCSD falls within the General Secretariat and is integrated in the General Directorate of Political Affairs and security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. History Appearing in the 1960s with the independence of the territories of the former French colonial empire, defense cooperation has long been driven by two separate institutions: the Sub-Directorate of Military Assistance and the Military Cooperation Mission. Hving become out of date after the end of the Cold War and globalization, this system was reformed and strengthened in December 1998 with the creation of the Department of Military and defense cooperation (DCMD), which unified these outdated structures under the responsibility of the ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since the 60s, the cooperation of Homeland Security was led by SCTIP (Department of International Technical Cooperation of Police), an entity belonging to the Ministry of the Interior. In 1998, during the creation of the DGCID (General Directorate for International Cooperation and Development ) in Foreign Affairs, the latter managed the structural police cooperation and civil security in close coordination with the SCTIP. Taking into account the White Papers of Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence which highlighted the necessity of a global approach linking the concepts of security and defense, the March 16 2009 decrees about the organization of the central administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs established the DCSD, which officially replaced the DCMD and expanded its expertise in the fields of internal security (police and gendarmerie) and civil protection. Actions of the DCSD As a tool for diplomatic influence, the DCSD is responsible for implementing training, advice and expertise for which it ensures strategic leadership and comprehensive management within the realms of security and defense via cooperative bilateral or multilateral projects. It operates in all areas of security, defense or Homeland Security (restructuring tools of defense, disarmament, crisis emergency preparedness, export support, demobilization and reintegration, etc.). In a concern of policy coherence beyond the bilateral level, the DCSD follows and develops French policy in structural cooperation through regional and sub-regional approaches. The objectives of