Daniel Fiott

Journal Articles

  • Digitalization and Hybrid Threats: Assessing the Vulnerabilities for European Security

    Digitalization and Hybrid Threats: Assessing the Vulnerabilities for European Security

    From artificial intelligence to quantum computing, emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) may be part of the next revolution in military affairs – but it is not clear how EDTs will shape the future of conflict or strategies aimed at countering hybrid threats. This Hybrid CoE Paper seeks to uncover what kind of role EDTs could Read more

  • EU Civil-Defence Synergies: Understanding the Challenges and Drivers of Change

    EU Civil-Defence Synergies: Understanding the Challenges and Drivers of Change

    This paper looks at the European Union’s approach to promoting civil and defence synergies. More specifically, it focuses on the strategies and policies developed by the European Commission to help stimulate the cross-fertilisation of civil and defence research. A core part of the analysis is to show the evolution of the EU approach to such Read more

  • The Day After: the EU’s Strategic Compass and the Protection of Europe

    The Day After: the EU’s Strategic Compass and the Protection of Europe

    The EU has spent the best part of 20 months working on its ‘Strategic Compass’ for security and defence, yet the war in Ukraine and the threat environment around Europe pose serious questions. If the Compass is to move from just another EU document to credible action, EU member states need to step up their Read more

  • A Clash of Concepts?Making Sense of ‘European Sovereignty’ and ‘Strategic Autonomy’

    A Clash of Concepts?Making Sense of ‘European Sovereignty’ and ‘Strategic Autonomy’

    Strategic autonomy has become the buzzword of the European policy scene in recent years, with a slew of reports and policy proposals dedicated to the subject, and high-level support among European leaders. But big questions remain about what the concept actually means and what its implications are for Europe and the EU. Drawing on contributions Read more

  • The Failure of the EU’s Mediterranean Policies

    The Failure of the EU’s Mediterranean Policies

    Abstract ‘Thank you. This is Miranda Marluppi from Euro Diretta. At the start of the decade the Commission used its “EU Beach Clean-Up” initiative to sell us idyllic pictures of the Med- iterranean Sea, but today — in 2027 — the “Med is Dead”. What is the EU doing to save the Mediterranean Sea?’. There was Read more

  • Der Weg zu einem souveränen Europa

    Der Weg zu einem souveränen Europa

    Vor mehr als vier Jahren hielt der französische Präsident Emmanuel Macron an der Pariser Sorbonne eine Rede mit dem Titel „Initiative für Europa“. Sie führte das Konzept der europäischen Souveränität ein – damals noch ein kühner Vorschlag, heute eine weit verbreitete Vorstellung. 2020 nannte EU-Ratspräsident Charles Michel das Erreichen echter europäischer Souveränität „die Aufgabe unserer Read more