Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • What Does It Mean to Be a European Defense Company Today?

    What Does It Mean to Be a European Defense Company Today?

    Après deux décennies marquées par de faibles investissements, la remontée des budgets de défense en Europe et le lancement de nouvelles initiatives (Coopération structurée permanente et Fonds européen de défense en particulier) laissent penser que le tabou sur l’utilisation de fonds européens dans le domaine de la défense est tombé, ouvrant de nouvelles opportunités. Là… Read more

  • Stress Tests: An Insight into Crisis Scenarios, Simulations and Exercises

    Stress Tests: An Insight into Crisis Scenarios, Simulations and Exercises

    Abstract Crisis simulations and exercises are an effective way of broadening the minds of decision-makers, forecasting the future, identifying capability gaps, pin-pointing the weaknesses and strengths in the crisis response architecture and developing crisis response networks. The EU increasingly makes use of crisis scenarios. However, simulations and exercises can only add value to preparedness efforts when they… Read more

  • EU – NATO Relations: Defence Industry, Industrial Cooperation and Military Mobility

    EU – NATO Relations: Defence Industry, Industrial Cooperation and Military Mobility

    Abstract Issues pertaining to the defence industrial sector represent a perennial tension in EU- NATO relations. The tension exists both between the two organisations and the con- stituent members of each body. In short, the possibilities for and limits to EU-NATO cooperation on defence-industrial matters are conditioned by considerations of indus- trial competitiveness and strategic… Read more

  • Yearbook of European Security 2019

    Yearbook of European Security 2019

    Abstract The 2019 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2018 that were significant for European security and charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defence policy. With a new data-rich look, the 2019 Yearbook of European Security contains many novel features including region and issue-specific sections, content-centric… Read more

  • The Poison Pill: EU Defence on US Terms?

    The Poison Pill: EU Defence on US Terms?

    It took two letters. One, sent to Brussels on 1 May 2019 by two US undersecretaries, accused the EU of damaging transatlantic cooperation and hindering US access to Europe’s defence market through the rules it plans to set for the participation of third states in the European Defence Fund (EDF) and Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO).… Read more

  • The European Union

    The European Union

    Many theorists and policymakers may be surprised to learn that an international organization, such as the European Union, has the capacity to form and articulate its own grand strategy. However, identifying “who” makes EU grand strategy is challenging. A range of institutions and actors play a role in the formulation, consolidation, and execution of the… Read more