Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • EU Defence Capability Development: Plans, Priorities, Projects

    EU Defence Capability Development: Plans, Priorities, Projects

    Enthusiasts of strategic studies will be familiar with the tripartite, quasi-mathematical equation of ends, ways and means. Over a period of 18 months or so – beginning in June 2016 with the publication of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) and culminating with Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in December 2017 – the European Union has made… Read more

  • Humanitarian Diplomacy

    Humanitarian Diplomacy

    Humanitarian diplomacy has emerged as a concept to promote and dissuade certain types of humanitarian action. The concept took hold mainly in the post-Second World War era and the advent of global humanitarianism. It is a distinct form of diplomacy. Governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations “conduct” humanitarian diplomacy in the hope of influencing the… Read more

  • Protecting Europe, Permanently? The Future of EU Defence

    Protecting Europe, Permanently? The Future of EU Defence

    One of the first initiatives that emerged from the EU Global Strategy was the formation of a single military planning and conduct capability for the strategic command of some of the EU’s military CSDP operations. The logic is that having a single command structure for operations, as opposed to an individual structure for each operation,… Read more

  • Towards Military Mobility?

    Towards Military Mobility?

    The idea that the transportation of military personnel and equipment within Europe is still subject to physical, legal and regulatory barriers may seem odd, especially given the freedom of movement experienced under the Schengen Agreement and the nature of collective deterrence as defined by NATO’s founding Washington Treaty. NATO has established a working group and… Read more

  • EU-NATO Cooperation: The Case of Defense R&D

    EU-NATO Cooperation: The Case of Defense R&D

    The aim of this chapter is to analyze how the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stimulate defense research and development (R&D) cooperation among their respective members. The chapter also seeks to understand how, if at all, the EU and NATO cooperate with each other as organizations in the domain of… Read more

  • Permanent Structured Cooperation: What’s in a Name?

    Permanent Structured Cooperation: What’s in a Name?

    Abstract Permanent Structured Cooperation (PeSCo), the so-called ‘sleeping beauty’ of EU defence, is awake. Still barely predictable only a year ago, PeSCo is an ambitious, binding and inclusive legal framework aimed at incentivising defence cooperation among member states. PeSCo is based on binding commitments between member states that could promote increased defence spending, improve force… Read more