Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • Will European Defence Survive Coronavirus?

    Will European Defence Survive Coronavirus?

    The tragedy that is the Coronavirus has already claimed too many lives, but it has also allowed Europe’s public services to shine. Citizens across Europe are rightly applauding the tireless work of medical professionals, police and transport workers. Europe’s armed forces have also been called on to roll back the virus. Whether this should be likened to… Read more

  • Small can be beautiful… in defence

    Small can be beautiful… in defence

    How are small states supposed to make sense of all the changes that have taken place in EU security and defence since 2016? It can often feel like EU defence is a subject reserved for the ‘big fish’ like France and Germany, but EU initiatives like Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and the European Defence Fund… Read more

  • Digitalising Defence: Protecting Europe in the Age of Quantum Computing and the Cloud

    Digitalising Defence: Protecting Europe in the Age of Quantum Computing and the Cloud

    Abstract Digital technologies can vastly improve the operational readiness, effectiveness and technological sovereignty of Europe’s armed forces. For defence to benefit from digitalisation, both the greater interoperability of digital technologies and financial investment is required. The Multi-annual Financial Framework is a test for how serious EU member states are about the digital agenda but low national defence R&D investments are… Read more

  • A Future Scenario for a More Strategic EU Defence

    A Future Scenario for a More Strategic EU Defence

    Abstract As the journalist from Euronews asked what it was like to be held hostage by jihadists for four months since June 2024, the three student backpackers could not hold back the tears. Europeans Paulus Klimitz and Katriona Wicedz and the American John O’Connor were visibly emotional as the EU Ambassador to Burkina Faso thanked EU forces… Read more

  • Strategic Investment: Making Geopolitical Sense of the EU’s Defence-Industrial Policy

    Strategic Investment: Making Geopolitical Sense of the EU’s Defence-Industrial Policy

    Abstract This Chaillot Paper focuses on new EU initiatives in the defence domain – in particular the creation of the European Defence Fund – and on the Union’s evolving role and engagement in this sector. The paper seeks to address three specific questions: (i) how can economic and political factors be balanced in EU defence industrial policy?;… Read more

  • Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union: The State, the Firm and Europe

    Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union: The State, the Firm and Europe

    This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice. Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence industrial policy at EU level.… Read more