Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • The Sahel Crisis: Where do European and African Perspectives Meet?

    The Sahel Crisis: Where do European and African Perspectives Meet?

    The crisis in Mali has brought the Sahel to the centre of international attention. This fragile region not only suffers from longstanding development challenges, but also from an acute security vacuum that has triggered military intervention. Many questions have arisen as a consequence of the crisis. Has the European Union the ability to cope with… Read more

  • Safeguarding the EDTIB: the Case for Supervising non-EU FDI in the Defence Sector

    Safeguarding the EDTIB: the Case for Supervising non-EU FDI in the Defence Sector

    It is time for the EU member states to start collectively supervising non-EU FDI in Europe’s defence industries and infrastructures. This should be a prudent element of the nascent EDTIB and a way to maintain European security by encouraging greater coordination between the national supervisory frameworks. Egmont Institute, 2012, No. 41 Read it here Read more

  • How to Avoid the Three Pitfalls of European Strategy

    How to Avoid the Three Pitfalls of European Strategy

    European academics, think‐tankers and policy-makers make three consistent and critical errors when debating strategy: firstly, they do not clearly define what they mean by “strategy” – a problem that has long haunted the field of strategic studies; secondly, and as a result, they tend to speak of European strategic interests, all too often treating the… Read more

  • How Europeanised has Maltese Foreign Policy Become?

    How Europeanised has Maltese Foreign Policy Become?

    This essay focuses on the degree to which Maltese foreign policy has become Europeanized because of its membership in the European Union. The author focuses on three trends resulting from the Europeanization process: first, the ways in which Malta’s national policies and political structures have become altered to meet the demands of EU membership; second,… Read more

  • The French White Paper on Defence and National Security: NATO, Nuclear Weapons and Space

    The French White Paper on Defence and National Security: NATO, Nuclear Weapons and Space

    The 17 June unveiling of the French White Paper on Defence and National Security2 comes at a period of evolution in French defence and security policy. Reformation of its armed forces, its ambitions to re-integrate into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) military command and its plans to enhance the European Security and Defence Policy… Read more