Analysis

On 5 November 2024, the citizens of the United States will elect their 47th president. After President Biden’s decision to withdraw his candidacy this summer, the two candidates are former President Donald Trump and sitting Vice-President Kamala Harris. Their positions on many...

We set out an economic deterrence action plan that outlines the steps the EU would have to take to – as effectively as possible – contribute to preventing military conflict.

The new report 'The Global Future - An Update' is a mid-term review of the 2019 'Global Trends' report on the trends and challenges facing European decision-makers during the 2019-24 EU policy cycle.

This report identifies four trends in cyber capacity building and extrapolates their development to explore four potential scenarios that can inform capacity builders’ strategic decision making.

This study looks at the ways in which the European space sector can be an enabler of EU strategic autonomy. It asks how should the EU understand space and strategic autonomy, what has the EU achieved in space and how this has contributed to the EU’s strategic autonomy and what...

The next decade will be defining for the future of Europe and Europe’s role in the world. This ESPAS report is a contribution to support policy- and decision-makers as they navigate the world into 2030.

Since 2016, the European Union has developed a number of new initiatives on security and defence. Commissioned by the European Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Security and Defence, this Study analyses how the European Parliament and national parliaments can effectively scrutinise...

This Study analyses the armaments standardisation approaches of the EU and NATO and it provides an overview of policy initiatives in the domains of maritime information sharing and remotely piloted aircraft systems.

The Operational Guidance, commissioned by the European Commission, is intended to provide a comprehensive practical framework when designing and implementing the EU’s external actions against cybercrime and for promoting cybersecurity and cyber resilience.