Author Archive: Luis Simón
About: Luis Simón
Luis Simón is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies at the Free University of Brussels.* In 2009, he was a Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies. Luis has completed research assignments for the Sub-Committee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament, the Royal United Services Institute, the Egmont Institute, the Elcarno Royal Institute and the Alternatives Foundation. He has also spoken at a number of conferences and seminars, including those arranged by various European Union presidencies and the Spanish Ministry of Defence.
————————————————————————————————————————————* Any opinions expressed by the author anywhere on this blog are his own personal views and do not reflect in any way the official policy or position of the Free University of Brussels.
Articles by Luis Simón
- Germany risks overplaying its hand, 28 May 2013
- The 2013 French Defence White Paper, 01 May 2013
- Interview with Kenneth Waltz, 15 Mar 2013
- France: the spider in Europe’s web?, 09 Jan 2013
- Geopolitics, Britain and ‘Europe’, 05 Jan 2013
- Three interlocking triangles?, 23 Sep 2012
- Interview with Julian Lindley-French, 19 Sep 2012
- Will Europe remain ‘Western’?, 09 Sep 2012
- Interview with Jolyon Howorth, 04 Sep 2012
- Out of area or out of business!, 27 Jun 2012
- The European Union in the Sahel?, 31 May 2012
- Think again: ‘strategic partnerships’, 23 May 2012
- New challenges in the Southern Neighbourhood, 26 Mar 2012
- Britain-France: a new agency for the neo-West?, 20 Feb 2012
- World’s fifteen most powerful countries in 2012, 29 Dec 2011
- Strategic Snapshot No. 2 published, 01 Dec 2011
- After Libya: Consequences, futures and options, 19 Sep 2011
- Britain and France: Why Germany matters, 31 Jul 2011
- A new ‘long telegram’?, 21 Jun 2011
- Libya: time for boots on the ground?, 19 Apr 2011
- The politics behind Europe’s Libya split, 22 Mar 2011
- Thinking strategically: Libya, 11 Mar 2011
- CSDP: Beyond ‘crisis management’?, 01 Feb 2011
- The top ten geopolitical events of the last decade, 05 Jan 2011
- The return of European geopolitics?, 30 Jun 2010
- Think Again: European Geostrategy, 14 Mar 2010
- Planning for European military operations, 24 Feb 2010
- Forecasting the next decade, 06 Jan 2010
- Europe’s ‘Af-Pak Syndrome’, 15 Dec 2009
- Think Again: ‘Britain is not European’, 23 Sep 2009
- Offshore power Europe? Buffering Eurasia to balance East Asia, 02 Sep 2009
- The future of US-Russia relations: Europe’s strategic litmus test?, 21 Aug 2009