GeoSport, a new digital platform focused on geopolitics and sport, has been jointly launched by IRIS and emlyon business school. It proposes value-adding content on geopolitics and sport, providing informed, expert analyses on contemporary issues. The key focus of the content is around diplomacy; international relations; nation branding; politics and soft power, and the link of these areas to sport.

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.

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 Carlos Martí Sempere for Spain – By Jean-Pierre Devaux, President of Inovstra, and Gaspard Schnitzler from IRIS for France – By Alessandro Marrone, Head of Defence Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali, and Andrea Gilli, Senior Researcher, NATO Defense College, Affiliate at the CISAC

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.

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.

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

This new report urging leaders to make climate change a “security priority” in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. It presents an overview of climate change-related threats to security in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. The report also provides ideas on how increased security community engagement, alongside development and diplomatic actors, can help minimize and manage these threats.

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 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).