‼️ We are pleased to announce that
@DanielFiott
has joined
@CSDS_Brussels
as head of our new Defence and Statecraft Programme. Looking forward to his research at this challenging time for Europe. Welcome onboard Daniel!
@Brussels_School
@VUBrussel
⚠️ Today we unveil our new programme for “Defence and Statecraft”, which is headed by
@DanielFiott
. In the coming months, we will be sharing more details on our research, events and more. Proud to be bringing you additional research excellence!
@VUBrussel
@Brussels_School
EU-Japan relations have undergone a major uplift over the past 5 years. The two once-distant players have been stepping up efforts to address the many shared security concerns in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
🇪🇺🇯🇵
🚨 Hot off the press! Our first Policy Brief of 2023 is out now.
Nanae Baldauff looks at Japan's defence industry and how it is forming part of Tokyo's broader shift in its economic security policy.
Read it now🔸
#GCAP
#defence
#Japan
❗️Save the Date❗️
We are very pleased to announce that we will be organising the next “Brussels Indo-Pacific Dialogue” on 30 January 2024! Put the date in your agendas.
More info🔸
We are extremely excited to announce the formal creation of a "Japan Chair" at
@CSDS_Brussels
@Brussels_School
! Congratulations to
@EPejsova
for leading the work on
#Japan
and we cannot wait to get started. He's a video sneak preview...
Taking our work on
#Japan
to a new level! Thrilled to announce the establishment of a new Japan Chair at the
@CSDS_Brussels
@Brussels_School
@VUBrussel
! We will start operations as of September, stay tuned for more news. 🇯🇵 🇪🇺
Read our press release 🔸
❗️New CSDS In-Depth Paper❗️
"Shades of Grim: Scenarios for Ukraine and Global Order", by
@lotjeboswinkel
and
@LuisSimn
. Check out their 4 scenarios for the Ukraine war and the consequences for global order!
Read now🔸
#UkrFutures
At our Brussels Indo-Pacific Dialogue today,
@KristiRaik
explains how both Europe and the Indo-Pacific would pay a high price for a possible Russian victory in Ukraine.
#IndoPacific
@ICDS_Tallinn
❗️New Study❗️
🇪🇺🇯🇵 Our researchers
@rpachecopardo
and
@EPejsova
have just published an In-Depth Analysis for
@EP_ForeignAff
entitled "Deepening EU-Japan Cooperation". This is a major study of a vitally important strategic partnership.
Read now🔸
Three core messages from HRVP
@JosepBorrellF
🇪🇺
1/ we need more EU engagement in the
#IndoPacific
, esp. in the area of security;
2/ the EU needs a distinctive role in and offer for the region;
3/ cooperation with the Indo-Pacific is a two-way street. We can do more together.
🚨 Hot off the press!
Our second Policy Brief of 2023 focuses on evolving Korea-NATO relations. Wooyeal Paik and Yoon Jung Choi look at the challenges and opportunities facing the two partners.
Read it now🔸
@Brussels_School
@VUBrussel
#Korea
#NATO
‼️We are absolutely delighted to invite you to the first-ever "Brussels Indo-Pacific Forum". The event takes place on 29 November in Brussels. We have a superb speaker line-up including senior representatives from 🇪🇺🇦🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷🇸🇬🇺🇸
Register now🔸
🚨 Call for applications!
2023 EU-India Young Leaders Exchange 🇮🇳 🇪🇺
We want 20 young Europeans and Indians under the age of 30 to engage with experts in EU-India relations. Is that you?
Apply now 🔸
A big welcome to the Brussels Indo-Pacific Dialogue from our Japan Chair
@EPejsova
! With the event, CSDS aims to ensure that Brussels continues to serve as an anchor for debates between Europe and the
#IndoPacific
.
🗓 Save the Date‼️
🔸 We look forward to welcoming you to the 1st “Brussels Indo-Pacific Forum”, organised in the heart of Europe 🌏🇪🇺🤝
@Brussels_School
🔸 More details on ✍🏻 registration and our 🗣 high-level speakers will follow. Mark down 2️⃣9️⃣ November in your agendas now!
📢Earlier this year,
@WestPointSOSH
@TheMESOLab
@CSDS_Brussels
organised a seminar entitled "Order, Counter-Order, Disorder?". We're very pleased to share the news that many of the papers delivered have now been published by
@defence_studies
!
More info🔸
Congratulations!!!! DR Linde Desmaele has successfully defended her PhD thesis:
“Not Whether but How Europe Matters: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of the Evolution of the Role of Europe in US Grand Strategy (2001-2020)”
We are so proud of you! 🎉
🔹
Welcome
@PatriziaCogo
! Patrizia joins
@CSDS_Brussels
as Project Manager today. We look forward to working with Patrizia on a range of interesting projects.
Read all about Patrizia🔸
Congratulations to CSDS Senior Associate Researcher, Dr Linde Desmaele! She has been awarded a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship with
@MIT_CIS
and will spend the year conducting research on the US' extended deterrence posture in Europe and East Asia. Excellent news!
Yesterday, we held the first "Defence and Statecraft Forum" & we were honoured to welcome a number of great guests. For those that couldn't make it, we are going to write a thread on the main points (in no particular order)🧵 /1
@Brussels_School
#Defence
#Statecraft
Proof of the research excellence at CSDS. We are very, very proud that CSDS Director,
@LuisSimn
, has been awarded an
@ERC_Research
grant for a research project on Sino-American competition and European Strategic Autonomy (
#SINATRA
).
🔸
@Brussels_School
Extremely good news! Our researcher
@lotjeboswinkel
took part in the
@NATO_DefCollege
Future Leaders Conference! Lotje was part of a panel on "Deterrence and Defence" with
@camille_grand
, Ioana Moraru and Barbora Lehká.
👏 Well done Lotje!
A sign of the times! Australian PM
@AlboMP
🇦🇺 attends the
#NATOPublicForum
. As the PM remarked, some may ask why Australia is in Madrid at the NATO Summit, but the depth of the challenges in the
#IndoPacific
call for a united approach and partnership. CSDS fully agrees!
Interested in the evolution of Russia's naval strategy in the Black Sea? Then you should listen to this Sea Control podcast for
@CIMSEC
. Our own
@DanielFiott
sits down with
@jwsc03
to discuss the naval dimensions of the war on Ukraine.
Listen now🔸
Concluding the
#INFORM
public event,
@EPejsova
is discussing the “EU - Japan Relationship and the
#IndoPacific
Order”. Rich discussions today on how the EU and Japan can deepen their exchanges and concrete policy cooperation. 🇯🇵 🇪🇺
We end the first Brussels Indo-Pacific Forum with the launch of the Japan Chair in Brussels. We are delighted that
@EPejsova
will be the first-ever such Chair in the EU. We at
@CSDS_Brussels
are constantly working to develop Japan-Europe relations!
#IndoPacific
We are pleased to be in Tokyo for our 2nd meeting on "Future Trends in the Indo-Pacific”, which is part of a
@NATO_SPS
project. We welcome our excellent speakers! Proud to be working with our partners
@Nids1952
@ASPI_org
@sciencespo
.
Learn more🔸
The
@CSDS_Brussels
wants to recruit 2 PhD fellows as part of a
@ERC_Research
Consolidator Grant project entitled ‘Sino American Competition and European Strategic Autonomy’ (SINATRA).
If you want to join our project, apply here before the 31 January 2023:
“It is good that the Indo-Pacific is gaining more attention in Europe. This region will be the centre of history for the years to come”, says HR/VP
@JosepBorrellF
at the Brussels Indo-Pacific Forum.
#IndoPacific
Australian PM
@AlboMP
🇦🇺 gives a wide-ranging overview of how China is operating in the
#IndoPacific
. It’s clear from the PM’s presentation that Europeans and Australians need to work on the entire spectrum of global competition: trade, security of supply and more.
During the
#INFORM
series of events in Tokyo, Japan, there were interesting discussions about security and defence and digital partnership trends in the
#IndoPacific
. Here’s a thread on some of the substantive elements of the discussions with colleagues in
#Japan
. /1
We are extremely pleased to unveil the "Transatlantic Defence in an Era of Strategic Competition"
#TIDE
project. With the support of
@NATO
, and with our partners
@CSIS
, we will organise events and publish papers on the challenges facing NATO today.
Info🔸
Stay tuned! We’ll soon be releasing our second CSDS Policy Brief. This time by
@DanielFiott
on the
#StrategicCompass
and
#EUdefence
. We’re looking forward to sharing it with everyone!
Follow us
If you want to know more about the EU’s approach to the
#IndoPacific
, why not read the new Strategy here (just released):
And read
@EPejsova
’s 10 points ➡️
An action packed day for the
#INFORM
project in Tokyo, as we discuss security and defence trends and ways to bridge partnerships in the
#IndoPacific
. Honoured to welcome Japan’s Foreign Minister, Hayashi Yoshimasa, and Enrique Mora, Deputy SecGen
@eu_eeas
.
❗️New Event❗️
Join us on 27 May in Brussels for an event with
@Rory_Medcalf
and other guests to discuss China-US competition and its implications for the Indo-Pacific and Europe. This is definitely not to be missed!
Register today🔸
‼️ Brand new research by our senior associate
@JordanMBecker
. He has published an article with
@sekreps
@ProfPaulPoast
&
@RochelleTerman
entitled "Transatlantic Shakedown: Presidential Shaming and NATO Burden Sharing". Give it a read!
🔸
❗️New Commentary❗️
In a
@SWPBerlin
working paper edited by Laura von Daniels,
@ClaudMajor
and
@NvOndarza
,
@DanielFiott
briefly looks at how "Trump 2.0" could up-end EU-US trade and defence relations.
Read today🔸
Congratulations to
@dsm_ld
for winning the 2022 Global Strategy PhD Prize, which was awarded by
@EgmontInstitute
and the European Security and Defence College (
@eu_eeas
). Richly deserved and we are all very proud of you!
Full details🔸
What a treat at CSDS today! Extremely pleased to have welcomed
@nicolange_
and
@KoriSchake
for a discussion about
#Zeitenwende
and German defence policy after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A superb debate moderated by our Director
@LuisSimn
and with thoughts from
@DanielFiott
.
“We want a world where differences are settled by norms and rules, not power and size”.
We are listening to Foreign Minister
@SenatorWong
🇦🇺 at our event with
@AustraliaEU
@POLITICOEurope
❗️New Study❗️
After months of research,
@DanielFiott
and
@Giu_Ter
have published a study for the
@Europarl_EN
on
#QMV
in Foreign Policy. They look at four case studies and the pros and cons of QMV.
Read the Study now🔸
#CFSP
📣 In our last Policy Brief of 2023,
@DanielFiott
looks at European defence 10 years on from the 1st
#EUCO
Summit on defence in 2013. He explains what more needs to be done by the EU in the context of the forthcoming defence industrial strategy.
Read now🔸
So, Japan’s Defence Ministry has made a record spending request of $52.7 billion for fiscal year 2024, but what’s behind the move?
@CelinePajon
@EPejsova
@MichitoTsuruoka
have you covered!
Read now🔸
“Europe is finding it difficult to simultaneously balance its interests in different maritime regions such as the Mediterranean, the Gulf region and the Indo-Pacific […] the EU’s maritime strategy is severely undermined by a lack of naval assets”
🔸
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new project for CSDS. With the support of
@EU_in_India
, and under the leadership of
@Giu_Ter
, we will engage Indian and European think tanks in a series of joint research activities. 🇮🇳🇪🇺
More details🔸
We are starting the
#INFORM
public event on “Europe and Japan in a Changing World”. Listening to the keynote speech by Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa
@MofaJapan_en
as he sets out the clear need for closer 🇯🇵 🇪🇺 cooperation. Thank you Minister Yoshimasa!
Thanks to
@EUCouncilPress
for listing 2 CSDS studies on the
#IndoPacific
in the latest Think Tank Review!
📰"Centre of Gravity" and
📰"The Digital Decade"
Read the full review🔸
🚨 A new CSDS Policy Brief is out!
Professor Kazuto Suzuki explains the new dimensions of
#Japan
's economic security and helps us understand the challenges of crafting a new tech policy for the country. This is a must-read!
Read now🔸
@KS_1013
‼️Did you miss our event on 9 November with
@EISSnetwork
and
@NATO_DefCollege
on Military Alliances and the Use of Force? Don't worry! We are absolutely delighted to share with you a recording of the event via our YouTube channel 📺
Watch now🔸
❗️Brussels Korea Forum 2023❗️
On 19 October in Brussels we are partnering with
@KoreaFoundation
for the 2023 Brussels Korea Forum. We will be bringing together Koreans and Europeans to discuss a range of global challenges.
Register now🔸
‼️Save the Date‼️
On the 9 November, we are organising an in-person event in Brussels with
@EISSnetwork
and
@NATO_DefCollege
on “Military Alliances and the Challenges to the Use of Military Force”.
More details on registration to follow soon. Block the date!
@Brussels_School
He was made for the big screen! Check out this excellent lecture on “Japan as a Maritime Power”, by Dr Alessio Patalano.
➡️➡️
@alessionaval
🇯🇵 🌊
🍿
#japan
#maritime
#power
The first speaker today is
@Rory_Medcalf
, who is outlining how China is using its power for regional dominance. What we are seeing is not even “competition” but a “struggle” for power and influence through coercion, interference and all levers of national power, he remarks.
🚨 The Japan Chair
@EPejsova
has just published a brand new piece of analysis with
@hcssnl
on "The EU's Naval Presence in the Indo-Pacific". A timely piece of analysis given last week's revised EU Maritime Security Strategy!
Read it now🔸
@Brussels_School