Daniel Fiott

Journal Articles

  • Europe and the Pentagon’s Third Offset Strategy

    Europe and the Pentagon’s Third Offset Strategy

    Faced with the prospect of its adversaries mitigating its long-held superiority in sophisticated weapons systems, the US announced in 2014 that it was about to embark on a ‘third offset strategy’ in order to maintain its military-technology edge. In its quest to harness new technologies and operational concepts however, the third offset strategy is likely Read more

  • The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar: Legitimacy and Operationalization

    The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar: Legitimacy and Operationalization

    As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed. This uncovers opportunities and challenges associated with third pillar interventions by looking at legal, economic, political, military and alternative interventions in third-countries. Palgrave, 2015 Buy it here Read more

  • Europe’s Strategy Strained as Libya Veers Toward Civil War

    Europe’s Strategy Strained as Libya Veers Toward Civil War

    Without a lasting deal on a national unity government, militias rallying around the rival factions vying for control of Libya could eventually spark a civil war. The Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) and Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC) continue to reject a United Nations-brokered, European Union-backed proposal. Any subsequent conflict could have far-reaching regional repercussions, Read more

  • Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures

    Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures

    Focusing on the support of non-CSDP policies for CSDP measures, both in the field of crisis management and defence, this study submits that CSDP cannot effectively contribute to EU external action by itself, but only in coherence with other EU policies and instruments. The study focuses on nine different issue areas of the EU which Read more

  • European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: From Keynes to Clausewitz

    European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: From Keynes to Clausewitz

    The European Union is still far from having a consolidated defence market but the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) has emerged as a policy framework through which to liberalize and regulate defence markets, protect and sustain jobs and to improve the interoperability of Europe’s armed forces; all at the EU level. This article Read more

  • ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

    ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

    Based on extensive empirical work by a cross-European group of researchers, this book assesses the impact of the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on the national foreign policy-making processes and institutions of the EU member states. As such, the contributions cover both the involvement of the national diplomatic and foreign policy actors Read more