The Gulf Between Europe and Strategic Reality
Why does Europe have no impact on the war in the Gulf? Nor even on the diplomatic efforts to settle the war? Europeans could have mounted a collective operation to […]
European defence / NATO
Publications
No Monopoly Left: How Drone Warfare Escaped Its Architects
Something is becoming impossible to ignore: wherever you look today – the skies above eastern Ukraine, the Persian Gulf, the plains of Burkina Faso – drones are reshaping the logic […]
External publications
Outcome Pending Negotiations: The 2026 NPT Review Conference as a Narrative Battleground
The NPT Review Conference in May 2026 promises to be a battle between competing narratives about the evolution of the global nuclear order. This CSDS In-Depth Paper provides observers and […]
External publications
Making Russia Fear Escalation Again
Russia’s hybrid war against Europe continues to expand, with drone sightings, cyber-attacks, airspace violations, disinformation campaigns, and sabotage operations steadily increasing across the continent. Rather than being a series of […]
A Grand New European Security Strategy
When a basic assumption of one’s strategy is no longer valid, one writes a new one. That is the case of Europe today: we assumed that the United States would […]
Commentaries
Towards a Credible EU-India Strategic Partnership?
The outcomes of the most recent EU-India summit, the 16th of its kind, on January 27th 2026, were significant in many regards. They signal that the relations between Brussels and New […]