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Daniel Fiott
Daniel Fiott was Security and Defence Editor at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) from 2016 to 2022. At the EUISS, Daniel analysed European security and defence policy, CSDP operations and defence capability and industrial issues. He was the Institute’s representative to the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and the author of the EUISS’ annual publication, the Yearbook of European Security. Daniel was educated at the University of Cambridge and he holds a PhD from the Free University of Brussels (VUB).
Books & Reports
Une voie vers 2030: comment la «Boussole stratégique» peut- elle contribuer à protéger l’Europe?
(Paris: EuropaNova, 2022)
Defence Industrial Cooperation in the EU: The State, the Firm and Europe
(Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2019)
The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives
(Ghent: Academia Press, 2015)
The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar: Legitimacy and Operationalisation
(London: Palgrave, 2015)
The State of Defence in Europe: State of Emergency?
(Ghent: Academia Press, 2013)
Journal articles
America First, Third Offset Second?
The RUSI Journal, vol. 163, no. 4 (2018), pp. 40-48
The Multiannual Financial Framework and European Defence
Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, vol. 53, no. 6 (2018), pp. 311-315
Patriotism, Preferences and Serendipity: Understanding the Adoption of the Defence Transfers Directive
Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 55, no. 5 (2017), pp. 1045-1061
The EU, NATO and the European Defence Market: Do Institutional Responses to Defence Globalisation Matter?
European Security, vol. 26, no. 3 (2017), pp. 398-414
The European Defence Market: Disruptive Innovation and Market Destabilization
The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (2017), pp. 28-35
A Revolution Too Far? US Defence Innovation, Europe and NATO’s Military-Technological Gap
Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (2017), pp. 417-437
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Defence, Industry and Strategy
The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 51(4) (2016), pp. 119-130
Modernising NATO’s Defence Infrastructure with EU Funds
Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 58, no. 2 (2016), pp. 77-94
Europe and the Pentagon’s Third Offset Strategy
The RUSI Journal, vol. 161, no. 1 (2016), pp. 22-27
European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: From Keynes to Clausewitz?
Global Affairs, vol. 1, no. 2 (2015), pp. 159-167
The European Commission and the European Defence Agency: A Case of Rivalry?
Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 53, no. 3 (2015), pp. 542-557
Reducing the Environmental Bootprint? Competition and Regulation in the Greening of the European Defence Sector
Organization & Environment, vol. 27, no. 3 (2014), pp. 263-278
Relations with the Rest of the World: From Chaos to Consolidation?
Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 52, no. S1 (2014), pp. 170-185
Europe after the U.S. Pivot
Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, vol. 58, no. 3 (2014), pp. 413-428
The ‘TTIP-ing Point’: How the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Could Impact European Defence?
The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 48, no. 3 (2013), pp. 15-26
Realist Thought and Humanitarian Intervention
The International History Review, vol. 35, no. 4 (2013), pp. 766-782
Europe and the Rest of the World
Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 51, no. S1 (2013), pp. 168-182
Improving CSDP Planning and Capability Development: Could there be a ‘Frontex Formula’?
European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 18, no. 1 (2013), pp. 47-62
How Europeanised has Maltese Foreign Policy Become?
Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3 (2010), pp. 104-118
Book chapters
Financing Rhetoric? The European Defence Fund and Dual-Use Technologies
In A. Calcara, R. Csernatoni and C. Lavallée (eds.) Emerging security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes (London: Routledge, 2020).
The European Union
In Balzacq, T., Dombrowski, P. and Reich, S. (eds.) Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 262-283
Innovating and Offsetting? The Political Economy of US Defence Innovation
In Matthews, R. (ed.) The Political Economy of Defence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 377-397
Military CSDP Operations: Strategy, Financing, Effectiveness
In Blockmans, S. and Koutrakos, P. (eds.) Research Handbook on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019), pp. 111-131
EU-NATO Cooperation: The Case of Defense R&D
In Karampekios, N., Oikonomou, I. and Carrayannis, E. (eds.) The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy (Berlin: Springer International Publishing, 2018), pp. 281-300
Humanitarian Diplomacy
In Martel, G. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy (London/New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 2018), pp. 5
Our Man in Brussels: The UK and the EEAS – Ambivalence and Influence
In Balfour, R., Carta, C. and Raik, K. (eds.) The European External Action Service and National Foreign Ministries: Convergence or Divergence? (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 75-88
Conclusion: wherefore art thou CSDP?
In Fiott, D. (ed.) The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives (Ghent: Academia Press, 2015), pp. 121-124
Being Small, Acting Tall? Malta and European Defence
In Fiott, D. (ed.) The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives (Ghent: Academia Press, 2015), pp. 93-96
The CSDP is Dead, Long Live the CSDP?
In Fiott, D. (ed.) The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives (Ghent: Academia Press, 2015), pp. 11-13
The Use of Force and the Third Pillar
In Fiott, D. and Koops, J.A. (eds.) Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar: Legitimacy and Operationalization (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 130-145
Introduction
In Fiott, D. and Koops, J.A. (eds.) Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar: Legitimacy and Operationalization (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 1-3
The European Defence Technological and Industrial Base: Five Suggestions
In Biscop, S. and Fiott, D. (eds.) The State of Defence in Europe: State of Emergency? (Ghent: Academia Press, 2013), pp. 73-78
The European Union
In Zyberi, G. (ed.) An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 199-219
Book reviews
1493, by Charles C. Mann
Global Affairs, vol. 2, no. 1 (2016), pp. 102-103
In Defence of War, by Nigel Biggar
Politics and Governance, vol. 3, no. 2 (2015), pp. 51-53
Malta in the European Union, by Mark Harwood
Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol. 16, no. 3 (2015), pp. 457-458
Debating European Security and Defence Policy: Understanding the Complexity, by Maxime Larivé
The RUSI Journal, vol. 160, no. 2 (2015), pp. 100-101
The EU as a Global Security Actor: A Comprehensive Analysis Beyond CFSP and JHA, by Christian Kaunert and Kamil Zwolski
Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 52, no. 2 (2014), pp. 437-438
The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, by Henry Frendo (ed.) vols I & II
Journal of European Studies, vol. 41, no. 1 (2011), pp. 77-80
Selected policy papers
EU civil defence synergies: Understanding the Challenges and Drivers of Change
ARES group no.74, (Paris: The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, 2022).
Digitalization and hybrid threats: Assessing the vulnerabilities for European security
Hybrid CoE Paper 13, 04 April 2022 (Helsinki: The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats)
Covid-19 should mean more European defence cooperation
European Defence Matters, no. 19, (Brussels: European Defence Agency, 2020), pp. 12-13.
The EU and Crisis Management in the Age of Technological Disruption
TechPops, 22 June 2020 (Berlin: Center for International Peace Operations, 2020).
EU-Japan Cooperation in Defence Capabilities: Possibilities?
Madrid: Real Instituto Elcano, 2020
Small can be beautiful… in defence
Dublin: The Institute for International and European Affairs, 2020
Pushing the Defence Technology Frontier: A Role for the EU?
In Hegarty, P., Tonra, B. and Lilli, E. (eds.) Defence Forces Review 2019 (Dublin: Irish Defence Forces, 2019), pp. 51-57.
What does it mean to be a European defence company today?
Editoriaux de l’Ifri, (Paris: Institut français des relations internationales, 2019).
European Defence Markets and Industries: New Initiatives, New Challenges
Nacao e Defesa, no. 150 (Lisbon: Instituto da Defensa Nactional, 2018), pp. 76-84.
A New Dynamic in EU-Japan Relations
In Simón, L. and Speck, U. (eds.) Natural Partners? Europe, Japan and Security in the Indo-Pacific (Madrid: Real Instituto Elcano, 2018), pp. 41-44.
European Defence, 60 Years after the Treaty of Rome
Defence Matters, no. 13 (Brussels: European Defence Agency, 2017), pp. 38-40
Promoting European Defence Cooperation and the Promise of Financial Incentives
ARES Group Comment, no. 16 (Paris: Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, 2017)
A “Game Changer”? The EU’s Preparatory Action on Defence Research
ARES Group Comment, no. 1 (Paris: Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, 2016)
Trade Policy Support for Defence Capabilities
In Raube, K. et al. (eds.) Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures (Brussels: DG EXPO European Parliament, 2015), pp. 78-83
Industrial Policy Support for Defence Capabilities
In Raube, K. et al. (eds.) Supporting European Security and Defence with Existing EU Measures and Procedures (Brussels: DG EXPO European Parliament, 2015), pp. 70-75
The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Parliamentary Groups
European Policy Analysis, no. 3 (Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, 2015)
Britain’s Place in an EU-wide Security of Supply Regime
RUSI Defence Systems, vol. 16, no. 1 (London: Royal United Services Institute, 2015)
An Industrious European Council on Defence?
Security Policy Brief, no. 53 (Brussels: Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, 2013)
More Competitive, More Efficient? The 2013 European Commission Defence Communication
Security Policy Brief, no. 49 (Brussels: Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, 2013)
Safeguarding the EDTIB: The Case for Supervising non-EU FDI in the Defence Sector
Security Policy Brief, no. 41 (Brussels: Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, 2012)
Resource-full Revolutions: The EU, Natural Resources and the Southern Neighbourhood
In Biscop, S., Balfour, R. and Emerson, M. (eds.) An Arab Springboard for EU Foreign Policy? (Ghent: Academia Press, 2012), pp. 49-55