Daniel Fiott

Publications

  • The State of Defence in Europe: State of Emergency?

    The State of Defence in Europe: State of Emergency?

    When a doctor calls for a thorough examination of the state of a patient’s health, he hopes that everything will turn out to be alright, but it really means that he fears there is a serious problem. Likewise, when Herman Van Rompuy called for the European Council of which he is the President to examine… Read more

  • The ‘TTIP-ing Point’: How the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Could Impact European Defence

    The ‘TTIP-ing Point’: How the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Could Impact European Defence

    The European Union and the United States are on the verge of agreeing to a transatlantic free trade agreement. The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is aimed at boosting EU and US economic growth, but the negotiating partners have not excluded the defence sector from negotiations. Europe is at a tipping point regarding the… Read more

  • More Competitive, More Efficient? The 2013 European Commission Defence Communication

    More Competitive, More Efficient? The 2013 European Commission Defence Communication

    The European Commission has now released its 2013 Communication on defence-industrial policy. But does the latest set of policy ideas offer European defence-industrial cooperation any new impetus? This Brief argues that while the majority of the Commission’s initiatives are not new, some much needed ideas have made their way into the latest Communication. Egmont Institute,… Read more

  • Realist Thought and Humanitarian Intervention

    Realist Thought and Humanitarian Intervention

    This article seeks to test the assumption that realism is completely hostile to the ethical and political notions of humanitarian intervention. The popular understanding of realism states that the national interest and international order will always trump the moral impulse to assist those suffering gross human-rights abuses at the hands of their government. The article… Read more

  • The Common Security and Defence Policy and IR Theory

    The Common Security and Defence Policy and IR Theory

    Since its inception over a decade ago, the European Union’s (EU) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has seen the deployment of over 25 missions to various locations in the EU’s near and wider neighbourhood. Working under an EU banner and policy mechanisms, a number of member states have cooperated in theatres of action on… Read more

  • Europe and the Rest of the World

    Europe and the Rest of the World

    There were a number of leitmotifs by which to identify the European Union’s activities in 2012. The first of these was the eurozone crisis. A second theme was the change (or not) of key personnel: the election of François Hollande in France, the re-election of American President Barack Obama in October, the generational change of… Read more