CSDS academics and analysts frequently produce cutting-edge research in internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals
2026
Fiott, D. (2026) “Europe’s Rearmament Dilemmas“, Current History, 125(869): 87-92.
Tercovich, G. and Zaccagnini, I. (2026) “Autonomy or Alignment? Technologically Advanced Democracies in the Governance of Semiconductors“, Geopolitics, (early online view) (Open Access).
Spielberger, L. and Rehm, M. (2026) “Institutional Foundations of Financial Statecraft: EU Assistance to Ukraine and Beyond“, Review of International Political Economy, (early online view) (Open Access).
Isik Bora, S. (2026) “Isomorphic Spillover and Its Limits: The Institutionally Constrained Defence Industrial Policy of the European Union“, Politics and Governance, (early online view) (Open Access).
2025
Javadi, M. (2025) “Infrastructural Entanglement and Cloud Hyperscalers in Contemporary Warfare: Insights from Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan“, Contemporary Security Policy, (early online view) (Open Access).
Lerfald Grostad, K. (2025) “‘All Politics is Local’: The US-China Balance in the First Island Chain and Japan’s Defense Transformation“, Asian Security, (early online view) (Open Access).
Javadi, M. (2025) “The Narrative Continent: Discursive Recognition and the EU’s Technological Actorness“, Journal of Common Market Studies, (early online view) (Open Access).
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.
