By Dick Zandee (Clingendael Institute) for Netherlands, and Alessandro Marrone (IAI) for Italy – May 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.

These papers deal with the European Defence Fund and the interests of Sweden, Spain, Italy, Poland, Danemark, Finland, 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), Marcin Terlikowski from the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and Sten Rynning, Professor of the University of Southern Denmark, Niklas Helwig and Tuomas Iso-Markku from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Ares Group publishes papers on armament and transatlantic relationships. They 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, by Ester Sabatino from IAI, and by Tania Latici from EPRS.

By the Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS), founded by the Center for Climate and Security, in partnership with IRIS, HCSS and Clingendael

While there has been progress over the past decades, with militaries and security institutions increasingly analyzing and incorporating climate change risks into their assessments, plans and policies, this report shows that the risks are increasingly urgent, and more must be done. This contributed to the report’s “Key Risks and Opportunities” findings.

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.

The Global Go To Think Tanks 2019 is out! IRIS achieved a higher ranking compare to last year: 21th in the “Top think tanks in Western Europe” category (out of 1,523); 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 8,248).