Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • Rising Risks: Protecting Europe with the Strategic Compass

    Rising Risks: Protecting Europe with the Strategic Compass

    Abstract The Strategic Compass will guide the direction of EU security and defence until 2030, and it does so by providing a single narrative for how, why and where the EU should act to protect its interests and values. While the document is comprehensive in its understanding of the threats facing Europe, there are two… Read more

  • La Brújula Estratégica y la autonomía de la UE

    La Brújula Estratégica y la autonomía de la UE

    En plena guerra de Rusia contra Ucrania, la Unión Europea publicó en marzo su tan esperada estrategia de seguridad y defensa, denominada Brújula Estratégica. El documento es el primero de este tipo para la Unión, y puede asemejarse a lo que los Estados denominan “libro blanco” de la defensa. En este sentido, la Brújula Estratégica… Read more

  • To face the Russian Threat, Europeans Need to Spend Together – not Side by Side

    To face the Russian Threat, Europeans Need to Spend Together – not Side by Side

    If European states are to make good on their promises to protect their interests and their continent, they will need to stand side by side, but invest together, write a group of scientific advisers to the Armament Industry European Research Group (ARES). Euractiv, 2022 Read more Read more

  • Digitalization and Hybrid Threats: Assessing the Vulnerabilities for European Security

    Digitalization and Hybrid Threats: Assessing the Vulnerabilities for European Security

    From artificial intelligence to quantum computing, emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) may be part of the next revolution in military affairs – but it is not clear how EDTs will shape the future of conflict or strategies aimed at countering hybrid threats. This Hybrid CoE Paper seeks to uncover what kind of role EDTs could… Read more

  • EU Civil-Defence Synergies: Understanding the Challenges and Drivers of Change

    EU Civil-Defence Synergies: Understanding the Challenges and Drivers of Change

    This paper looks at the European Union’s approach to promoting civil and defence synergies. More specifically, it focuses on the strategies and policies developed by the European Commission to help stimulate the cross-fertilisation of civil and defence research. A core part of the analysis is to show the evolution of the EU approach to such… Read more

  • The Day After: the EU’s Strategic Compass and the Protection of Europe

    The Day After: the EU’s Strategic Compass and the Protection of Europe

    The EU has spent the best part of 20 months working on its ‘Strategic Compass’ for security and defence, yet the war in Ukraine and the threat environment around Europe pose serious questions. If the Compass is to move from just another EU document to credible action, EU member states need to step up their… Read more