Daniel Fiott

Journal Articles

  • Strategic Compass: New Bearings for EU Security and Defence?

    Strategic Compass: New Bearings for EU Security and Defence?

    Abstract Over the past twenty years the European Union has enhanced its role as a security and defence actor. However, in a rapidly changing geopolitical environment, the Union faces new threats and security challenges and this calls for a unified, robust and far-reaching approach from the bloc and its Member States. The Strategic Compass, to Read more

  • Promoting Technological Sovereignty and Innovation: Emerging and Disruptive Technologies

    Promoting Technological Sovereignty and Innovation: Emerging and Disruptive Technologies

    Emerging and disruptive technologies (EDT) transcend the four-basket logic of the EU Strategic Compass as they touch on aspects of all issue areas. To break down this complex topic, the workshop was based on two input papers that focused on aspects of sovereignty and innovation. While the discussion cannot and should not be held exclusively Read more

  • Towards a Strategic Compass for the EU

    Towards a Strategic Compass for the EU

    The European Union has made tangible steps forward in security and defence in recent years. he EU Global Strategy put in place a new strategic rationale for the EU and it stressed the importance for member states to invest in security and defence in order to better respond to a more hostile world. All around Read more

  • Yearbook of European Security, 2021

    Yearbook of European Security, 2021

    Abstract The 2021 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2020 that were significant for European security and it charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defence policy. The 2021 Yearbook of European Security contains region- and issue-specific sections, timelines of key events, lists of core EU documents, Read more

  • What Scope for EU-US Defence Industrial Cooperation in the 2020s?

    What Scope for EU-US Defence Industrial Cooperation in the 2020s?

    The election of Joseph Biden as President of the United States has led to talk of a reset in the transatlantic relationship. This is the dawn of a new era where the US are more involved in NATO, the Europeans are more involved in their security with projects such as PeSCo or the European Defence Read more

  • Knowledge is Power? Technology and Innovation in the Indo-Pacific

    Knowledge is Power? Technology and Innovation in the Indo-Pacific

    Abstract Ever since the 1970s, the Indo-Pacific region has steadily become home to increasing levels of technological output, innovation, and people. During this period China’s economic opening, the United States’ technological dominance, and the broader processes of generalised economic globalisation have contributed to the formation of high-tech global value chains. The technological rise of the Read more