Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • Autonomy without Autarky: An EU ‘Roadmap’ for Security of Supply

    Autonomy without Autarky: An EU ‘Roadmap’ for Security of Supply

    The disruption of the defence supply chain and the inability to replace or reproduce equipment: a nightmarish prospect for any military planner. To allay such fears, states have, whenever possible, sought to lower dependence on third-country suppliers by favouring national industry. Yet complete autarky is impossible to achieve in today’s globalised defence market. Consider, for… Read more

  • Kissinger on World Order

    Kissinger on World Order

    Kissinger’s first book was essentially a study of the corrupting effect of revolution on world – or, more specifically, European – order. Kissinger’s (thinly masked) parallel between Napoleon and Hitler made the point that revolutionary powers – defined as those states that seek to overturn the established global order – were intrinsically threatening to world… Read more

  • The Three Effects of Dual-Use: Firms, Capabilities and Governance

    The Three Effects of Dual-Use: Firms, Capabilities and Governance

    It is easy to overlook the fact that many of the products and technologies we use on a daily basis – and now take for granted – have their origins in the defence sector. GPS navigation units, the internet, touch screens, digital cameras, and even microwaves, were all, in one way or another, invented and… Read more

  • The European Investment Bank could help meet some of the challenges facing Europe’s struggling defence industry

    The European Investment Bank could help meet some of the challenges facing Europe’s struggling defence industry

    European countries face significant challenges in funding defence research and development programmes. Among the most important are declining defence budgets, fierce international competition, and the increasingly expensive nature of high-end technologies. Daniel Fiott argues that the European Investment Bank could play a much greater role in Europe’s defence sector and serve as a life-line to defence research… Read more

  • Relations with the Rest of the World: From Chaos to Consolidation?

    Relations with the Rest of the World: From Chaos to Consolidation?

    Our 2012 review painted a picture of an EU pulled between a seemingly inexorable series of internal crises, on the one hand, and myriad external demands, on the other (Hadfield and Fiott, 2013). The year 2013 largely continued the theme of balancing slow-paced internal consolidation with increasingly demanding diplomatic requirements arising from within the Eastern… Read more

  • Europe after the U.S. Pivot

    Europe after the U.S. Pivot

    Insofar as Europe’s security and cohesion have for decades been premised upon a strong American political and strategic engagement, Washington’s intention to “rebalance” to Asia casts a shadow over the sustainability of a stable and coherent geopolitical order on the continent. This article argues that as the United States seeks to rebalance strategically towards the… Read more