Wishing my followers a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024! Here’s a round-up of my work with CSDS in 2023. It was a productive year for publications. I published 3 peer-reviewed articles including:
In Every Crisis an Opportunity? European Union Integration in Defence and the War on Ukraine, Journal of European Integration – 2 May 2023
Strategic Competition: Toward a Genuine Step-Change for Europe’s Defence Industry?, Economics of Peace and Security Journal – 17 Apr 2023
Europe and the South: the Maritime Dimension, Confluences Méditerranée – 5 Jan 2023
With CSDS, I published 8 Policy Briefs including:
Defence Matters: Ten Years of European Defence and What has Really Been Achieved? – 20 Dec 2023
Purchasing Power: Towards Joint Procurement and Planning in European Defence? – 22 Sep 2023
In Orbit: The European Union, Defence and Space Domain Awareness – 7 Jul 2023
Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age – 4 Jul 2023 (with Giulia Tercovich)
Disorder: the War and Russia’s Economic Statecraft – 2 May 2023
Counter-order: Chinese Power, the West and Geo-economics – 26 Apr 2023
Order: the Financing of Alliances and Western Power – 21 Apr 2023
Annus Horribilis: Russia’s War, Ukraine’s Struggle, Europe’s Future – 24 Feb 2023
I had the great pleasure of also working on 3 major studies including:
EU Defence After Versailles: An Agenda for the Future – 18 Oct 2023 (with Luis Simón)
Two Fronts, One Goal: Euro-Atlantic Security in the Indo-Pacific Age – 28 Aug 2023 (with Luis Simón and Octavian Manea)
Qualified Majority Voting in Common Foreign and Security Policy – A Cost of Non-Europe Report – 28 Aug 2023 (with Giulia Tercovich)
I managed to produce a number of policy papers with leading think tanks and institutes during 2023, including:
Europe’s Geopolitical Coming of Age Requires Greater Defense Efforts, Internationale Politik Quarterly, 19 Dec 2023
Analyzing the Outcomes of the 2023 NATO Summit, Korea on Point, 18 Jul 2023
The EU and the Military Dimensions of Ukraine’s Recovery, EU Military Forum 3 (Brussels: EU Military Committee, 2023), 25-27
NATO and the Current Security Context, IDN Portugal Policy Brief (Lisbon: Instituto da Defesa Nacional, 2023)
Cooperation in an Era of Strategic Competition: EU-NATO Relations in the Context of War and Rivalry, NUPI Policy Brief 7 (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 2023)
The Weight of Expectations: The EU and the Protection of Europe, EU Military Forum 2 (Brussels: EU Military Committee, 2023), 22-25
I was also happy to have organised several events during the year including:
Fair and Free, but How Secure? Foreign Interference and Elections – CSDS/US Mission to the EU/Taiwan, 9 Nov 2023
Transatlantic Defence in an Era of Strategic Competition: Is NATO Ready for an Era of Rivalry? – CSDS/CSIS – 27 Oct 2023
Transatlantic Defence in an Era of Strategic Competition: A Steadfast and Resilient Alliance? – CSDS/CSIS – 19 Jun 2023
Defence & Statecraft Forum – CSDS – 27 Apr 2023
The Military Balance of Power in Europe – CSDS/IISS/Egmont Institute – 28 Mar 2023
NATO’s New Force Model: Operationalising Collective Defence – CSDS/Egmont Institute – 7 Mar 2023
Order, Counter-Order, Disorder? Regional and Global Security Orders in the Shadow of Sino-American Competition – CSDS/US Military Academy – 9 Feb 2023
Finally, I was pleased to cooperate with NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on a year-long project entitled Transatlantic Defence in an Era of Strategic Competition (TIDE). The TIDE project saw the organisation of two public events in Brussels and Washington. The aim was bring key communities across the Euro-Atlantic region to discuss NATO in the context of the Vilnius Summit.
If you would like to read all of our activities at CSDS you can read the following documents:
Defence & Statecraft Annual Review 2023
CSDS Publications Catalogue 2023
If you would like to read up on all of my work at the Real Instituto Elcano in 2023, visit this page.
Daniel Fiott 