Daniel Fiott

Journal Articles

  • America First, Third Offset Second?

    America First, Third Offset Second?

    In 2014, the US Department of Defense announced that it would embark on a new defence innovation initiative termed the ‘Third Offset Strategy’. This Obama-era strategy was conceived to overcome the perceived military-technological rise of states such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Since the election of President Donald Trump, however, questions about the Read more

  • European Defence Markets and Industries: New Initiatives, New Challenges 

    European Defence Markets and Industries: New Initiatives, New Challenges 

    The author discusses how the excessive focus of European countries on national priorities have been leading to a number of structural problems, in the European defence market, related to international competition, military redundancies and unnecessary costs. The article reflects on the recent efforts by the EU to support the European Defense and Technological Industrial Base Read more

  • Yearbook of European Security 2018

    Yearbook of European Security 2018

    Abstract The EUISS Yearbook of European Security (YES) 2018 is the Institute’s annual publication compiling key information and data related to the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in 2017. YES 2018 opens with a preface by Federica Mogherini, High Representative for the Union’s Foreign and Security Read more

  • EU Defence Capability Development: Plans, Priorities, Projects

    EU Defence Capability Development: Plans, Priorities, Projects

    Enthusiasts of strategic studies will be familiar with the tripartite, quasi-mathematical equation of ends, ways and means. Over a period of 18 months or so – beginning in June 2016 with the publication of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) and culminating with Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in December 2017 – the European Union has made Read more

  • Humanitarian Diplomacy

    Humanitarian Diplomacy

    Humanitarian diplomacy has emerged as a concept to promote and dissuade certain types of humanitarian action. The concept took hold mainly in the post-Second World War era and the advent of global humanitarianism. It is a distinct form of diplomacy. Governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations “conduct” humanitarian diplomacy in the hope of influencing the Read more

  • Protecting Europe, Permanently? The Future of EU Defence

    Protecting Europe, Permanently? The Future of EU Defence

    One of the first initiatives that emerged from the EU Global Strategy was the formation of a single military planning and conduct capability for the strategic command of some of the EU’s military CSDP operations. The logic is that having a single command structure for operations, as opposed to an individual structure for each operation, Read more