By Carlos Martí Sempere for Spain – By Jean-Pierre Devaux, President of Inovstra, and Gaspard Schnitzler, Research Fellow at IRIS, for France – By Alessandro Marrone, Head of Defence Programme at IAI, and Andrea Gilli, Senior Researcher at NATO Defense College, Affiliate at the CISAC, for Italy – By Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Senior Research Fellow at FIIA, for Finland

These series of policy papers are dedicated to the new models of defence innovation and their implications for the ministries of defence’s procurement. At a time when the European Commission is elaborating the work programme of the European Defence Fund, the objective is to realise a mapping of the main EU member states’ defence innovation systems and their evolution to give more consideration to dual use technology, open innovation, and user-centric innovation.

Until the end of 2022, this two-year project, TES-D, co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union involves a consortium of academics andpractitioners from six countries of the EU, and the UK. It aims to develop a set of policy recommendations for the establishment of a common sport diplomacy at the EU-level and to create a network of relevant stakeholders.

Analysis by Jean-Pierre Maulny (IRIS), Marius Müller-Hennig (FES), Neil Melvin (RUSI) and Malcolm Chalmers (RUSI), for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in partnership with IRIS and RUSI – December 2020

Brexit poses a risk for European Security as the highly institutionalised relations based on EU membership change. This new publication analyses the security cooperation between Germany, France and the United Kingdom after Brexit.

European Parliamentary Research Service Study – With the IRIS contributions of Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director, and Dr Edouard Simon, Senior Fellow.

This study examines the implementation of the European Union (EU) defence package, which consists of the Defence Procurement Directive 2009/81/EC and the Intra-Community Transfers Directive 2009/43/EC, during the period from 2016 to 2020.

The Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS – included IRIS) released two new reports, one on South Asia and the other on Southeast Asia, warning that climate change is threatening stability and security in the region, and calling for urgent action to both drastically reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate security risks.

By François Gemenne, Sofia Kabbej, Roman Monange, Julia Tasse

The 14th Study Report (Rapport d’Etude) of the Observatory of Climate Change Impacts on Defence and Security focuses on environmental security risks in the Western Indian Ocean. Based on a risk matrix and suggesting operational recommendations to decision-makers, this report complements an Australian report on environmental risks in the Eastern Indian Ocean, following a presidential visit to Australia in 2018.

By Dick Zandee (Clingendael Institute) for Netherlands, Alessandro Marrone (IAI) for Italy, Torben Schütz (DGAP) for Germany, Félix Arteaga (Real Instituto Elcano) for Spain, Sophia Becker (DGAP) for the US, Jean-Pierre Maulny (IRIS) for France – May/June 2020

ARES Group is launching a new series of comments dedicated to the impact of Covid-19 on the EDTIB and to the first measures taken by governments to help that industry. The scope of this series will probably be expanded to include non-European countries.

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).

The Global Go To Think Tanks 2020 is out! IRIS achieved a higher ranking compare to last year: 21th in the “Top think tanks in Western Europe” category (out of 2,075); 17th in the “Top Defence and National Security Think Tanks” category, 29th in the “Top think tanks on foreign policy and international affairs” category, 41st on « Best Conference » category (out of 11,175).