The purpose of Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) Policy Briefs is to provide analytical reflections on policy issues that affect European security. Our editorial line is that “European security” can be analysed in relation to shifts in international security or events that pertain to changing alliances and partnerships. CSDS Policy Briefs relate to European security, even if they have an extra-European regional focus. Since launching the series in 2021, CSDS has published over 130 Policy Briefs on a range of Europe-focused topics. Our Policy Briefs are read widely and we have a policy of active promotion of our work on social media.
In 2025, we have so far published a range of Policy Briefs focusing on topics such as EU defence and rearmament initiatives, Arctic security, critical infrastructure protection, France’s nuclear deterrent, Poland’s defence strategy, critical raw materials, a post-American Europe and more. We have even had the pleasure of publishing a three-part series on economic security and trade that were co-authored by CSDS and Peterson Institute analysts.
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Policy Briefs in 2025
- Enemy in the Crates: The Risks of Pre-deployed Covert Payloads for European Defence
- What if Hell Breaks Loose? Imagining a post-American Europe
- Spheres of Enhancement: Understanding the New Pattern of International Competition
- Defence Innovation Trends: A Data Snapshot of the European Defence Fund, 2021-2024
- Caught in the US-China Crossfire: To Protect Itself, Europe Must Call a Critical Raw Material Emergency
- Securing the Depths: Rethinking EU Critical Infrastructure Protection in a Contested Underwater Domain
- Indispensable Lynchpin or Irrelevant Symbolism? Polish-US Defence Relations and the Second Trump Presidency
- Significant, but not Systemic: The Challenge of China’s Efforts to Rival Western Financial Predominance
- Alignment or Misalignment? US and EU High-Tech Trade and Sanctions Policies toward China
- Destined for Division? US and EU Responses to the Challenge of Chinese Over-capacity
- Going it Alone, Doing So Divided? The Era of Uncertainties and Europe’s Defence Industrial Politics
- Sabotage as Signal: Why Attacks on Maritime Infrastructure Challenge our Model of Sense-Making
- Revisiting Deterrence: Towards a French Nuclear Umbrella Over Europe?
- Special Delivery? The European Council and the March 2025 Defence Summit
- Spending Our Way Out of a Crisis? The Challenges and Benefits of ReArming Europe
- Melting Away? The European Union’s Geopolitical Role in the Arctic
- Unity is Not Enough: How will Europe Navigate the Trumpian Era of Geopolitical Competition?
- From Policy to Action: The Way Ahead for the EU-Republic of Korea Digital Partnership
