Daniel Fiott

Journal Articles

  • Yearbook of European Security 2020

    Yearbook of European Security 2020

    Abstract The 2020 Yearbook of European Security provides an overview of events in 2019 that were significant for European security and it charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defence policy. The 2020 Yearbook of European Security contains region- and issue-specific sections, content-centric timelines, key EU document sources, information boxes and Read more

  • The EU’s Strategic Compass and Its Four Baskets: Capability Development

    The EU’s Strategic Compass and Its Four Baskets: Capability Development

    The Strategic Compass promises to give the EU greater clarity over the strategic direction of CSDP and, potentially, EU security and defense more broadly. Which direction is the EU headed? What do North, South, East, and West mean in the context of CSDP? Who is carrying the Compass, and who is joining the Union on Read more

  • Uncharted Territory? Towards a Common Threat Analysis and a Strategic Compass for EU security and defence

    Uncharted Territory? Towards a Common Threat Analysis and a Strategic Compass for EU security and defence

    Words have meaning. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen took up her mandate calling for a ‘geopolitical Commission’ and Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP), echoed this by stating that the EU needs to ‘learn the language of power’. Reflecting the Read more

  • The EU and Crisis Management in the age of Technological Disruption

    The EU and Crisis Management in the age of Technological Disruption

    International organisations are playing catch-up to the rapid development of emerging technologies and greater digitalisation, especially as these new systems and processes are being produced at a seemingly breakneck speed by a range of commercial and government actors. As of today, international actors such as the United Nations and the European Union at least agree that Read more

  • Financing Rhetoric? The European Defence Fund and Dual-use Technologies

    Financing Rhetoric? The European Defence Fund and Dual-use Technologies

    The European Defence Fund reveals an intriguing aspect of dual-use theory and practice, namely, that the European Commission has committed to maintaining a specific ‘defence’ focus for the Fund in a sector that is increasingly marked by dual-use technologies and systems. This chapter analyses how the European Commission defines ‘defence’ in the context of globalised Read more

  • EU-Japan Cooperation on Defence Capabilities: Possibilities?

    EU-Japan Cooperation on Defence Capabilities: Possibilities?

    European countries and Japan both possess advanced defence technologies and they can bring to bear a range of civilian or dual-use technologies for defence procurement and defence research. At the same time, both players recognise that it is increasingly difficult for individual countries to manage defence equipment projects without cooperation. Therefore, it is clear that Read more