Publications

  • Sovereignty over supply?

    The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has heightened fears about the EU’s trade, resources and technology dependencies. This Brief outlines the challenges facing the Union’s supply security and explores how any EU trade diversification strategy needs to tackle three core risk...

    Briefs
    By: Daniel Fiott, Vassilis Theodosopoulos
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    The European space sector as an enabler of EU strategic autonomy

    This study looks at the ways in which the European space sector can be an enabler of EU strategic autonomy. It asks how should the EU understand space and strategic autonomy, what has the EU achieved in space and how this has contributed to the EU’s strategic autonomy and what...

    Analysis
    By: Daniel Fiott

  • Relationship therapy: making Arab police reform work

    This Chaillot Paper looks at the police in the Arab world – an institution at the centre of political life but one that is very much under-researched. After years of attempts at reform, it seems that not much progress has been made in reducing corruption and violence, or...

    Chaillot Papers
    By: Florence Gaub, Alex Walsh

  • Russian Futures 2030

    This Chaillot Paper seeks to provide readers with ambitious foresight analysis and insights on how to be prepared for unexpected twists and turns in Russia’s future trajectory.

    Chaillot Papers
    Edited by: Sinikukka Saari, Stanislav Secrieru

  • Unboxing the future

    Policy experts and decision-makers can improve their ability to think about the future in a number of ways, including by admitting that future developments may invalidate current assumptions and actions. This Brief shows how applying the discipline of strategic foresight to the...

    Briefs
    By: Joshua Polchar

  • The EU’s chemical weapons sanctions regime

    Concerns about the ero­sion of the ‘taboo’ on chemical weapons use have deepened in recent years, in particular following the chemical weapons attacks that have taken place in the Syrian conflict. The sanctions regime against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons which...

    Briefs
    By: Clara Portela, Erica Moret