Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • In Orbit: The European Union, Defence and Space Domain Awareness

    In Orbit: The European Union, Defence and Space Domain Awareness

    Following the March 2023 publication of the European Union’s Space Strategy for Security and Defence, the Union has moved into new conceptual territory. In thinking about how to ensure its security and defence in outer space, the Union has emphasised the importance of “Space Domain Awareness”. The meaning of this new term is not easily… Read more

  • Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age

    Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age

    Abstract In early May 2023, a group of nine European Union countries called for reform of the way the Union takes decisions in its foreign and security policy. Traditionally a field where consensus and unanimity are the norm, pleas in favour of Qualified Majority Voting – where a single state will no longer be able… Read more

  • The Weight of Expectations: The EU and the Protection of Europe

    The Weight of Expectations: The EU and the Protection of Europe

    One of the consequences of the war on Ukraine has been a greater realisation that the defence industry matters to the European Union (EU). This may seem like an odd statement given that the Union started to stimulate its defence industry after the EU Global Strategy with frame- works and tools such as the EuropeanDefence Fund (EDF) and Permanent… Read more

  • Cooperation in an Era of Strategic Competition: EU-NATO Relations in the Context of War and Rivalry

    Cooperation in an Era of Strategic Competition: EU-NATO Relations in the Context of War and Rivalry

    This Policy Brief looks at the growing relations and cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). It does so in the context of a return to war in Europe and growing strategic rivalry between the United States (US) and China. Europeans have long been called to take on more… Read more

  • Disorder: the War and Russia’s Economic Statecraft

    Disorder: the War and Russia’s Economic Statecraft

    Abstract Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the West has looked to support Kyiv and impose crushing economic measures on the Russian economy. Sanctions and divestment have punctured a hole in Russia’s war fighting machine, but there are also fears that the Kremlin has been able to use a form of economic statecraft… Read more

  • In Every Crisis an Opportunity? European Union Integration in Defence and the War on Ukraine

    In Every Crisis an Opportunity? European Union Integration in Defence and the War on Ukraine

    Russia’s war on Ukraine has upended the European security order. Ukraine has requested EU membership, unprecedented sanctions have been imposed on Russia, European countries have shipped weapons and munitions to Ukraine and NATO has shored up its military presence. Despite such action, is it possible to speak of a transformative moment or ‘Zeitenwende’ for EU… Read more