Ares Group publishes papers on armament and transatlantic relationships which supported the seminar “It’s time for the EU to fund defence: launching the EDF” held in Brussels on 8 October. These papers are written by Dick Zandee from the Clingendael Institute for the Netherlands, by Sylvie Matelly from IRIS for France, by Bastian Giegerich from IISS for Germany and by Margarita Šešelgytė from the Vilnius University for Baltic States.

Ares Group publishes papers which supported the seminar “It’s time for the EU to fund defence: launching the EDF” held in Brussels on 8 October. These papers deal with the European Defence Fund and the interests of Sweden, Spain, Italy and Poland in the Fund as they are perceived by the authors, Per Olsson from the Swedish Research Defence Agency (FOI), Felix Arteaga from the Real Instituto Elcano, Alessandro Marrone from the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Marcin Terlikowski from the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).

Project led by GLOBSEC in partnership with IRIS and other European partners

This final report is a two year advocacy and research project. It is based on an updated unique dataset of 326 European jihadis (from 2015, the peak year of European jihadism).

Generate Project – Working Paper – By Clément Bonnet, Gondia Sokhna Seck, Emmanuel Hache, Marine Simoën, Samuel Carcanague – July 2019

The aim of this article is to assess the impact of copper availability on the energy transition and to answer the question whether copper could become critical to the power and the transport sectors due to the high copper content of low-carbon technologies compared to conventional technologies.

Gender and Geopolictics Observatory – By Michel Maietta, Senior Rearch Fellow at IRIS –  July 2019

Homophobia is understood as the discrimination of all kinds against LGBT people. If “political homophobia” is already known as an effective operator for political duplicity in internal affairs, Michel Maietta explores further its manipulative power through the geopolitical lens. The author reminds how strategic LGBT rights protection is in the broader defence of human rights.

The Center for Climate and Security, Clingendael, the Planet Security Initiative, IRIS and the HCSS are pleased to announce the creation of a new « International Military Council on Climat and Security » (IMCCS).

The IMCCS will be a “standing” umbrella network of senior military leaders from across the globe that will meet regularly, produce an annual World Climate and Security Report, and drive communications and policy in support of actions on the security implications of a changing climate – at national, regional and international levels.

The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), together with a European consortium of think tanks led by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), is working on a project commissioned by the European Defence Agency to provide fresh analysis on the state of the EDTIB and its possible evolution in light of recent regional and global developments.

The Global Go To Think Tanks 2018 is out! IRIS ranked better overall than last year: 21th in the “Top think tanks in Western Europe” category (out of 1,523); 18th in the “Top Defense and National Security Think Tanks” category, 29th in the “Top think tanks on foreign policy and international affairs” category (out of 8,162).