Simona R. Soare

Simona R. Soare was a Senior Associate Analyst at EUISS from 2019 to end May 2021. Her research focused on United States security policy, transatlantic security and EU-NATO relations. Prior to joining EUISS, Simona served as advisor to the Vice-President of the European Parliament (2015-2019) and as an analyst with the Romanian Ministry of Defence, working on transatlantic and European security. She has also been a research associate with the Institut d’Études Européennes (IEE) at Université Saint Louis-Bruxelles.

Simona holds a PhD in Political Science from the National School for Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest where she lectured on international security (2008-2015). She is the recipient of a U.S. Department of State fellowship on U.S. Grand Strategy and has published extensively on American and transatlantic security.

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22January 2021
What if...not? The cost of inaction
Chaillot Papers
Edited by
Florence Gaub
With contributions from
Alice Ekman, Giovanni Faleg, Daniel Fiott, Gustav Lindstrom, Katariina Mustasilta, Patryk Pawlak, Clara Portela, Sinikukka Saari, Stanislav Secrieru, Simona R. Soare, Nathalie Van Raemdonck
The 12 scenarios presented in this Chaillot Paper draw attention to the cost of inaction in a variety of areas, ranging from Russia to Africa, from cyberspace to environmental matters.
18December 2020
Conflicts to come
15 scenarios for 2030
Chaillot Papers
Edited by
Florence Gaub
With contributions from
Natasha E. Bajema, Lotje Boswinkel, Daniel Fiott, Franz-Stefan Gady, Zoe Stanley-Lockman, Kathleen J. McInnis, Nicolas Minvielle, Andrew Monaghan, Katariina Mustasilta, Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Patryk Pawlak, Tobias Pietz, Sinikukka Saari, Stanislav Secrieru, Simona R. Soare, Bruno Tertrais, Olivier Wathelet
The volume presents 15 fictionalised scenarios that imagine how future conflicts might occur. These scenarios contribute to, and at times challenge, the existing body of assumptions concerning the genesis of conflict, its likelihood and how it might play out.
22October 2020
Turning the tide: how to rescue transatlantic relations
Books
Edited by
Simona R. Soare
With contributions from
Paul Bacon, Joe Burton, Andrea Charron, John R. Deni, Florence Gaub, Katarina Kertysova, Elena Lazarou, Gustav Lindstrom, Katariina Mustasilta, Clara Portela, Corina Rebegea, Zoe Stanley-Lockman
The transatlantic partnership is in crisis (again!). This book offers an overarching view of the major factors, trends and areas that are likely to shape transatlantic relations as the 2020s unfold.
30April 2020
Arctic stress test
Briefs
By
Simona R. Soare
In the three decades after the Cold War, the perception of ‘Arctic exceptionalism’, the sense that the Arctic region is immune from broader geopolitical tensions, prevailed. However, this notion is currently being challenged: climate change is accelerating the opening of new maritime trade routes and exploitation of natural resources in the region, while great power competition between the US, Russia and China in the Arctic is intensifying, changing regional power dynamics.
05March 2020
Digital divide? Transatlantic defence cooperation on AI
Briefs
By
Simona R. Soare
In the wake of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy unveiled by the US Department of Defense in 2019, this Brief examines the implications of the initiative for Europe and for transatlantic defence cooperation. It argues that Europeans need to develop a strategy for military innovation, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), while the transatlantic partners need to design a common approach to AI governance.
24January 2020
What if...? 14 futures for 2024
Chaillot Papers
Edited by
Florence Gaub
With contributions from
Alice Ekman, Giovanni Faleg, Daniel Fiott, Gustav Lindstrom, Katariina Mustasilta, Roderick Parkes, Patryk Pawlak, Clara Portela, Sinikukka Saari, Stanislav Secrieru, Simona R. Soare, Nathalie Van Raemdonck, John-Joseph Wilkins
According to a famous science fiction film, the future is what you make of it. This Chaillot Paper takes this quote from Back to the Future to heart, proposing 14 different portraits of the future for the year 2024.

22January 2021
2021- What's to come? The year ahead in foreign policy
On 22 January, the EUISS live-streamed its yearly foresight event entitled '2021- What's to come?' on YouTube to help us think through the challenges ahead, anticipate disruptions, and be better prepared for the coming year.
15July 2020
EUISS foresight podcast – Season 2
The EUISS' ‘What if’ podcast returns for a second season, this time looking at the foreign policy implication of the covid19 crisis.
09January 2020
EUISS foresight podcast – Season 1
The EUISS ‘What if’ podcast is a foreign policy foresight conversation: it looks at fictional scenarios that could happen between now and the end of 2021.

07April 2021
Simona R. Soare in Voice of America
Simona R. Soare
Simona R. Soare was quoted in the article "At 72, NATO alliance faces new challenges, enduring threats".
VOA

Books

Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State, and War
(London: Routledge, 2020)

Book chapters

Politics in the Machine: The Political Context of Emerging Technologies, National Security and Great Power Competition
In Reuben Steff, Joe Burton and Simona R. Soare (eds), Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State, and War (London: Routledge, 2020)

Society, Security & Technology: Mapping a Fluid Relationship
In Reuben Steff, Joe Burton and Simona R. Soare (eds), Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State, and War (London: Routledge, 2020)

Smart Cities, Cyber Warfare and Social Disorder
In A. Ertan, K. Floyd, P. Pernik, Tim Stevens (eds.) Cyber Threats and NATO 2030: Horizon Scanning and Analysis (Tallinn: NATO CCDCOE, 2020)

Other publications

European Defence and AI: Game-Changer or Gradual Change?, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, March 2021

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