Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures

    Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures

    Focusing on the support of non-CSDP policies for CSDP measures, both in the field of crisis management and defence, this study submits that CSDP cannot effectively contribute to EU external action by itself, but only in coherence with other EU policies and instruments. The study focuses on nine different issue areas of the EU which… Read more

  • European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: From Keynes to Clausewitz

    European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: From Keynes to Clausewitz

    The European Union is still far from having a consolidated defence market but the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) has emerged as a policy framework through which to liberalize and regulate defence markets, protect and sustain jobs and to improve the interoperability of Europe’s armed forces; all at the EU level. This article… Read more

  • ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

    ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

    Based on extensive empirical work by a cross-European group of researchers, this book assesses the impact of the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on the national foreign policy-making processes and institutions of the EU member states. As such, the contributions cover both the involvement of the national diplomatic and foreign policy actors… Read more

  • The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives

    The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives

    When one looks at the present state of the CSDP, “one cannot help but look on with disenchantment”, states Pierre Vimont in his foreword to this collective Egmont Paper, edited by Daniel Fiott. And yet: from the essays assembled here, one cannot but conclude that European defence is not only indispensable, but possible. Egmont Institute, 2015,… Read more

  • The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Parliamentary Groups

    The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Parliamentary Groups

    The political groups of the European Parliament (EP) play a diplomatic role in terms of the EP’s legislative powers, their rhetorical role in European Union (EU) foreign policy, and through direct diplomatic action in third countries. It is therefore surprising to observe that the parliamentary diplomacy of the political groups – conceived as diplomatic activities… Read more

  • The European Commission and the European Defence Agency: A Case of Rivalry?

    The European Commission and the European Defence Agency: A Case of Rivalry?

    This article analyzes relations between the European Commission and the European Defence Agency (EDA) as they relate to European defence-industrial co-operation. To undertake the analysis, the article departs from a strictly intergovernmental-supranational study of institutional relations by building upon the concept of ‘mandate overlap’. Additionally, the focus is on the constitutive policy approach of each… Read more