[Comment] France’s Perception of the EU Defence Industrial « Toolbox »
By Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director, IRIS
After reminding the historical main lines of French defence procurement policy and French defence industrial strategy, Jean-Pierre Maulny underlines that the EU defence industrial toolbox must be built in complementarity between the various stakeholders, i.e., the European Commission, the European Defence Agency, the Member States, as well as with the EDTIB.
FranceMore about ARES Group[Comment] What future European Defence and Technological Industrial Basis (EDTIB) do we want/need? The Romanian case
[Comment] Germany’s Perception of the EU Defence Industrial “Toolbox”
By Félix Arteaga, Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute
Jana Puglierin examines how Germany principally welcomes Brussels’ efforts to boost European defence capabilities by launching initiatives to create a resilient, competitive, and innovative EDTIB.
GermanySpainItalySwedenMore about ARES GroupSolar Geoengineering: Geostrategic and Defence issues
By Marine de Guglielmo Weber, Sofia Kabbej with the collaboration of Laura Hebbel Boutang for The Defence & Climate Observatory coordinated by IRIS under the contract carried out on behalf of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces’ DGRIS.
Techniques and their recent developments highlight the prospect of large-scale deployment of solar geoengineering over the coming decades. It therefore seems necessary to explore the security and strategic issues raised by these techniques, which this note sets out to do in four stages: a presentation of the techniques studied and the associated natural and human risks; an analysis of the geostrategic and defence issues they raise; four hypotheses, and three prospective scenarios narrating the deployment of solar geoengineering techniques by 2050, together with recommendations for the Ministry of Defence.
Read the noteSynthesisFrench version More information about the ObservatoryChina and climate change: a quest for ecological influence and power
By Marine de Guglielmo Weber,Yente Thienpont and Gabriel Bonnamy, for The Defence & Climate Observatory coordinated by IRIS under the contract carried out on behalf of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces’ DGRIS.
This note is divided into three parts: the first looks at the use of climate information for political and diplomatic purposes; the second looks at the economic leadership that China is seeking to develop in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation; and finally, the third looks at China’s use of HADR operations as a tool for influence and military power.
Read the noteSynthesisFrench version More information about the Observatory[Policy paper] The Impact of the War in Ukraine on the European Defense Market
By Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director, IRIS
This note offers an analysis of the consequences of the war in Ukraine on the structuring of the defence market in Europe.
Read[Working paper] Case Studies of the EU’s Actions in the Field of Conflict Resolution, Prevention and Mediation
By Federico Santopinto, Louise Souverbie, Gustavo Müller, Gustavo Ramírez Buchheister, Ester Sabatino & Cornelius Adebahr
Read[Policy Paper] Russia’s war against Ukraine: A new impetus for the harmonisation of European arms export policies?
By Lucie Béraud-Sudreau, Director of the Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme (SIPRI), Pia Fuhrhop, Deputy Head of Research Division (SWP), Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director (IRIS), and Christian Mölling, Deputy Director (DGAP)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 confronted European arms export policies with a unique crisis. This policy paper compares the arms export policies and export control rules of Germany, France, and Sweden, and examines their objectives, how the war in Ukraine has affected their perception of arms exports, and how changes to their arms export policies could impact European harmonisation of export controls.
ReadMore about Ares Group[Podcast] European Military Budgets after the War in Ukraine: More Cohesion of Fragmentation
The ARES Podcast Series offers a new and original format to encourage fresh strategic thinking in the field of European defence industrial policies.
This serie of podcasts aims at analysing the increases of post Ukraine defence budgets in several European countries. It raises the following issue : would these increases in defence budgets lead to more cohesion or to more fragmentation of the defence industry ?
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