CSDS academics and analysts frequently produce cutting-edge research in internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals.
2025
Simón, L. and Klose, S. (2025) “With or Without You: How Junior Allies Balance Security and Autonomy“, European Journal of International Relations (early online access) (Open Access).
Simón, L. and Fiott, D. (2025) “Europe and the United States-China Rivalry”, Journal of European Integration, 47(6): Special Issue (Open Access).
Simón, L. and Fiott, D. (2025) “Player and Playground: Europe in US-China Competition”, Journal of European Integration, 47(6): 785-803 (Open Access).
2024
Spielberger, L. et al. (2024) “Building a European Union ‘Treasury’: Explaining the European Commission’s New Approach to Debt Issurance and Management“, Journal of Common Market Studies, 63(4): 1197-1216 (Open Access).
Simón, L. and Figiaconi, F. (2024) “Better Safe Than Sorry: Why Great Powers Accommodate High-Value Hedgers“, Review of International Studies (early online view) (Open Access).
Fiott, D. (2024) “From Liberalisation to Industrial Policy: Towards a Geoeconomic Turn in the European Defence Market?“, Journal of Common Markets Studies, 62(4): 1012-1027.
Boswinkel, L. (2024) “Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-Defence and the US Alliance“, Survival, 66(3): 105-128.
Bora, S.I. (2024) “Neoliberal Means to Dirigiste Ends: Explaning the French Government’s Use of Heroic Industrial Policy Discourse in EU Politics“, French Politics, 22: 349-371.
Comerma, L. (2024) “The Normative Influence of the Belt and Road Initiative in Europe“, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 54(2): 233-246 (Open Access).
Grgić, G. and Tercovich, G. (2024) “Shifting Narratives? The EU’s Approach to the Indo-Pacific After the War in Ukraine“, Journal of European Integration, 47(1): 63-83.
Calcara, A. and Simón, L. (2024) “Face to Face: France, Germany and the Future of the European Defence Industry“, Journal of European Public Policy, 32(6): 1389-1413 (Open Access).
Doppen, F., Calcara, A. and De Bievre, D. (2024) “Balancing Security and Economics: Domestic State-Firm Relations and Investment Screening Mechanisms in Europe“, Review of International Political Economy, 31(6): 1637-1661.
Desmaele, L. (2024) “US Security Assurances and Nuclear Tripolarity“, Survival, 66(2):143-156.
Calcara, A. (2024) “Governments and Markets in the Digital Age“, International Studies Review, 26(1) (Open Access).
Reiterer, M. and Lee, I-H. (2024) “The Economic Security Tightrope: EU Economic Security Strategy, Friend-Shoring and European Relations“, Journal of East Asian Affairs, 36(2).
Klingler-Vidra, R. and Pacheco Pardo, R. (2024) “Bridging Developmental State and Entrepreneurial State Theory: A Typology of Startup Policies’ Incumbent Firm Benefits”, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 17(3): 524-540.
Becker, J. (2024) “Pledge and Forget? Testing the Effects of NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment“, International Studies Perspectives, 25(4): 490-517.
2023
Simón, L. and Ernst, M. (2023) “Competition with China and U.S. Defence Strategy: From Net Assessment to Competitive Strategies?“, Defence Studies, 23(3): 359-380.
Perot, E. (2023) “The European Union’s Nascent Role in the Field of Collective Defense: Between Deliberate and Emergent Strategy“, Journal of European Integration, 46(1): 1-23.
Fiott, D. (2023) “In Every Crisis an Opportunity? European Union Integration in Defence and the War on Ukraine“, Journal of European Integration, 45(3): 447-462.
Fiott, D. (2023) “Strategic Competition: Toward a Genuine Step-Change for Europe’s Defense Industry?“, Economics of Peace & Security Journal, 18(1).
Perot, E. (2023) “A New Alliance in Europe: the September 2021 Defence Agreement between Greece and France as a Case of Embedded Alliance Formation“, European Security, 32(4): 583-606.
Lanoszka, A. and Becker, J. (2023) “The Art of Partial Commitment: the Politics of Military Assistance to Ukraine“, Post-Soviet Affairs, 39(3): 173-194.
2022
Pacheco Pardo, R. and Kim, Y.I. (2022) “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and China-North Korea Relations: Stronger Weak-Great Power Alignment”, Asian Survey, 62(5-6): 920-944.
Klose, S., Perot, E. and Temizisler, S. (2022) “Spot the Difference: Differentiated Co-operation and Differentiated Integration in the European Union“, Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(1°: 259-276.
Fiott, D. (2022) “Europe and the South: The Maritime Dimension“, Confluences Mediterranne, 123(4): 111-121.
Becker, J., Duda, M. and Lute, D. (2022) “From Context to Concept: History and Strategic Environment for NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept“, Defence Studies, 22(3): 489-496.
2021
Simón, L. and Kim, T. (2021) “A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions“, Security Studies, 30(5): 725-760.
Simón, L. and Calcara, A. (2021) “Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense“, Security Studies, 30(5): 860-892.
Simón, L. and Kim, T. (2021) “Greater Security Cooperation: U.S. Allies in Europe and East Asia“, Parameters, 51(2): 60-71.
Simón, L. and Lanoszka, A. (2021) “A Military Drawdown in Germany? US Force Posture in Europe from Trump to Biden”, The Washington Quarterly, 44(1): 199-218.
Simón, L., Desmaele, L. and Becker, J. (2021) “Europe as a Secondary Theater? Competition with China and the Future of America’s European Strategy”, Strategic Studies Quarterly, 15(1): 90-115.
Simón, L., Lanoszka, A. and Meijer, H. (2021) “Nodal Defence: The Changing Structure of U.S. Alliance Systems in Europe and East Asia”, Journal of Strategic Studies, 44(3): 360-388.
Simón, L. and Meijer, H. (2021) “Covert Balancing: Great Powers, Secondary States and US Balancing Strategies Against China”, International Affairs, 97(2): 1-19.
Becker, J. (2021) “Defence Spending, Burden-Sharing and Strategy in NATO’s Black Sea Littoral States: Domestic, Regional, and International Systemic Factors“, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 21(3): 393-413.
2020
Simón, L. and Lanoszka, A. (2020) “The Post-INF European Missile Balance: Thinking About NATO’s Deterrence Strategy”, Texas National Security Review, 3(3): 12-30.
Simón, L. (2020) “Between Punishment and Denial: Uncertainty, Flexibility, and U.S. Military Strategy Toward China”, Contemporary Security Policy, 41(3): 361-384.
Amadio Vicere, M.G. and Tercovich, G. (2020) “The High Representative and the Covid-19 Crisis: a Preliminary Assessment“, Global Affairs, 6(3): 287-299.
Ernst, M. (2020) “On Shifting a Nation’s Collective Memory: The Role of Ahn Jung-geun in South Korea’s Foreign Policy“, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 8(2): 373-389.
