Policy-Making Inputs & Consultancy
Oxford Analytica: European Defence Analyst. 115 briefings (last 15 years).
“Time to Think the Unthinkable? how might the EU prepare for and react to a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine?”, Brussels, Wilfried Martens Centre, Policy Brief, October 2022, 5 pages
Instituto da Defesa Nacional, Lisbon. Keynote address on “The Euro-Atlantic Strategic Environment”, 28 September 2022
English Church Menton, “What is NATO For?”, Paper to Policy Speaker Series, 22 April 2022
Delphi Economic Forum, “Establishing a European Deterrent: Can Europe Enhance its Capacity to Defend Itself?”, Delphi, 8 April 2022
CNA TV, Singapore, Interview on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 3 March 2022
Institute for a Greater Europe, Panel on “The concept of strategic autonomy and the Strategic Compass”, Brussels, 28 February 2022
“Ukraine Just the Latest Wake-up Call for Europe?”, The UK in a Changing Europe website, 1 February 2022: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/ukraine-just-the-latest-wake-up-call-for-europe/
“Ukraine 2022: An Avoidable Train Wreck?”, The American Prospect, January 22, 2022:
https://prospect.org/world/ukraine-2022-an-avoidable-train-wreck/
NATO Defense College, Rome. Keynote lecture on “NATO and the Transatlantic Relationship under Biden”, 3 September 2021
“Europe and Biden: Towards a New Transatlantic Pact?”, Policy Brief, Brussels, Martens Centre for European Studies, January 2021, 24 pages: https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CES_POLICY-BRIEF_Biden-V3.pdf (Translation into Czech in preparation). Cited in Daniel Hamilton’s “Transatlantic Must-Reads”.
EuroDéfense & Ministère des Armées, Paris. « Comment réinventer un partenariat plus équilibré entre les Etats-Unis et l’Europe », chapter in Patrick Bellouard (ed.) La Souveraineté et la Solidarité Européenne, Paris, DGRIS, 2020
NATO Defense College, “NATO and the EU: what division of tasks based on what comparative advantages?”, Paper on Panel Partnering with institutions, Conference on: NATO 2030 – NATO’s Partnerships and Security Networks in a Contested Multilateral Order, Rome, NATO Defense College,10-11 December 2020
Oxford Analytica, “Biden, the EU and the Atlantic Alliance”, 30 November 2020
Oxford Analytica, “France will struggle to refocus its Sahel strategy?”, 10 November 2020
Oxford Analytica, “Stakes are huge for France’s Gamble in Lebanon”, 24 September 2020
Martens Centre, “EU Defence Cooperation after Covid-19: Quo Vadis?” Debate with Radoslaw Sikorski, Jolyon Howorth, Niklas Novaky and Alice Billon-Galland, Brussels, 15 June 2020
Martens Centre, “What Does the Coronavirus mean for the EU as an international actor?”, Contribution to survey by Martens Centre, Brussels, 8 April 2020
European External Action Service, “The Security landscape and the EU’s approach to security and defence”, Paper to conference on Europe’s Common Security and Defence Policy, Brussels, December 2019
European External Action Service, “European defence in the transatlantic context: the challenge of strategic autonomy”, Paper to conference on Europe’s Common Security and Defence Policy, Brussels, December 2019
Association France-Grande Bretagne, “Comment sortir de l’impasse euro-américaine ?”, Keynote speech to AFGB, Paris, December 2019
Austrian Institute for European Security Policy, “Europe’s Role in International Politics”, Paper to conference on Europe’s Role in the Face of Increasing Global Power Shifts, Vienna School of International Studies, November 2019
European People’s Party/Marten’s Centre, “European Strategic Autonomy: realism, idealism or a pipe-dream?” Keynote address to Marten’s Think-In Policy Debate, Prague, 8 June 2019
European People’s Party/Marten’s Centre, “What approach should the EPP take towards China as a rising global power?” Lead speaker, Marten’s Think-In Speed-dating session, Prague 7 June 2019
Yale Global Online, “Brexit Agonistes”, 11 April 2019
Egmont Institute/ International Institute for Strategic Studies, Keynote address to Expert Seminar on Autonomy and Strategy: What Should Europe Want? Brussels, 12 March 2019. Published as Egmont Security Policy Brief No.110, April 2019, 6 pages
Yale Global Online, “Brexit: the Irish Impasse”, 11 February 2019
NATO Policy Planning Unit, Keynote address, “EU Strategic Autonomy: Grand Strategy or Pipe Dream?”, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, 7 February 2019
Fondation Universitaire, Brussels, “European Strategy in the Twenty-First Century”, Book Launch talk, 6 February 2019
Washington Post, “Negotiating Brexit was just the beginning. This is what the EU and the UK have to agree on next” 18 December 2018
Yale Global Online, “Brexit Math”, 20 December 2018
The Times of India, “Exit Brexit? Why the UK needs to hold a second referendum on quitting Europe”, December 19, 2018: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/exit-brexit-why-the-uk-needs-to-hold-a-second-referendum-on-quitting-europe/
LSE Brexit Blog, “Brexit has become unnegotiable”, 25 September 2018, accessed at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/09/25/brexit-has-become-unnegotiable-theresa-may-has-a-constitutional-duty-to-admit-that-truth/
Yale Global Online, “NATO needs new thinking, not new money”, 17 July 2018
Wilfried Martens Centre, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Sofia Security Forum and Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy “Building A New European Defence Identity”, Paper at Conference Towards a new European Defence Identity, Sofia, 4 May 2018
Yale Global Online, “EU-UK Agreement Kicks Brexit Can Down the Road”, 14 December 2017
Ecole de l’Air, Salons de Provence, “La Stratégie Européenne de Sécurité: forces et faiblesses”, Paper to Conference on L’Europe de la Défense, 23 November 2017
Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, “Europe de la défense: un nouveau départ ?” Paper to Conference on the Relaunch of European Defence, Egmont Palace, Brussels, 5 July 2017
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Wilfried Martens Centre, “The EU and UK security and defence after Brexit”, Paper t Conference on Brexit Begins: How to Avoid Disaster and Make the Best of it for Both Sides, London, Royal Society, 27 June 2017
Yale Global Online, “Understanding the Macron Phenomenon”, 20 June 2017
Yale Global Online, “The Futures of NATO”, 3 May 2017
Netherlands Presidency of the European Union, Keynote Dinner Speech, to Conference on The Parliamentary Dimension of Defence Cooperation, hosted by Clingendael-Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Marine Establishment, Amsterdam, March 2016
European Geo-Strategy, “For a big picture strategic review: simplicity and realism”, March 2016
European Geo-Strategy, “The Russian Incursion in Syria: Five Dimensional Chess”, November 2015
Europe’s World, “Is Federica Mogherini to make a real difference?” 25 June 2015,
European Geo-Strategy, “The EU and the Fight Against ISIS: What to do with Humpty Dumpty”, May 2015
Egmont Institute, “EU Strategy and the Future of CSDP”, Remarks to academic brainstorming on the new security strategy, Brussels, June 2015.
European Union Institute for Security Studies, “Response to Federica Mogherini”, Remarks to High Level Conference on The EU in a Changed Security Environment, Brussels, April 2015
European Geostrategy, “CSDP without the UK: bad for Europe but even worse for Britain”, 18 January 2015: http://www.europeangeostrategy.org/2014/11/csdp-dead-long-live-csdp/
Egmont Institute, “Security & Defence Policy in the European Union”, Remarks to special session of the Royal Institute for International Relations and the Royal Higher Defence Institute, Brussels, December 2014
European Defence Agency, “The Geopolitical and Economic Context of European Defence Cooperation”, Panel remarks at Special Joint Academic Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the European Defence Agency, hosted by EDA and European Security & Defence College, Brussels, December 2014
Eurodéfense France, “Europe: Réveillez-Vous!”, Keynote Speech, Ecole Militaire, Paris, November 2014
Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports, Vienna and European Council on Foreign Relations, London, Paper on “Where Stands Europe?” to high-level closed conference on Liberal Interventionism in a time of adversity, Vienna, 8-9 July 2014
Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Paper on “Security and Defence Governance” to high-level conference on the Imagining Europe Project, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Italy, 27-29 June 2014
European External Action Service, Brussels: Invited Participant to closed high-level conference on Learning by Doing: Military Lessons Learned within the Comprehensive Approach, Centre Borschette, Brussels, 19-20 June 2014
Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris, Paper on “L’Ukraine va-t-elle enterrer la défense européenne?”, Maison de l’Europe, Paris, 17 June 2014
European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris and Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire, Paris, Paper to high-level workshop on What Role for the Military in CSDP Institutions and Operations?, Paris, EU-ISS, 6 June 2014
Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, “Leaving Europe’s Waiting Room: 10th Anniversary of the Eastern Enlargement”, Conference on The Enlarged European Union in a Time of New Challenges, Brazilian Foreign Ministry Palacio do Itamaraty, Rio de Janeiro, 8 May 2014.
Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome and Notre Europe, Paris, Paper on “European Defence and Security Post-Libya and post-Ukraine: Avoiding Irrelevance”, Permanent Representation of the European Parliament, Paris, April 2014
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris and NATO, Remarks on “The Future of the Transatlantic Link” to High Level Conference on NATO Transformation, Paris, April 2014
Center for Strategic and International Studies and NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, Invited participant in High Level Conference on “Rebalancing and Reinforcing the Transatlantic Bond”, Washington DC, January 2014
Belgian Royal Institute of International Affairs, the EU Institute for Security Studies, and the Lithuanian Presidency of the European Union “A Decade of Debate: Revisiting the ESS?”, Participation in Round Table at Conference, Egmont Palace, Brussels, December 2013
European Geostrategy: “The December Council on Defence: Asking the tough questions”, Article published 26 November 2013
Les InRockuptibles: “Proche Orient: ‘Obama est passé d’une stratégie visionnaire à la realpolitik’”, Interview with Jolyon Howorth, 30 September 2013
Istituto Affair Internazionali, Rome, Paper to Conference on Towards a More United and Effective Europe » A Framework of Analysis, Rome, September 2013
Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, Paris, “Les Conséquences du Livre Blanc pour l’Europe de la Défense”, Conference on the French Livre Blanc 2013, Egmont Palace, Brussels, 14 June 2013
Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, “The EU’s Security Challenges in a World of Power Transition” Seminar on Navigating Europe through Internal Crisis and Global Challenges, Rome 16 May 2013
Egmont Institute, Brainstorming discussion in preparation for the December 2013 European Council on Defence, Brussels 19 February 2013, published as: http://www.egmontinstitute.be/papers/13/sec-gov/SPB44.pdf
European Policy Centre, Brussels. Discussion Forum on Britain and the EU: In or Out?. Opinion column, “A Damp and Dismal Future”, 7 January 2013: http://www.epc.eu/pub_details.php?cat_id=13&pub_id=3228
European Policy Centre, Brussels. Discussion Forum on Britain and the EU: In or Out?. Opinion column, “A Damp and Dismal Future”, 7 January 2013: http://www.epc.eu/pub_details.php?cat_id=13&pub_id=3228
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm. Paper “European Global Strategy in a World of Power Transition” to Workshop on European Global Strategy, Stockholm, 13 November 2012: http://www.europeanglobalstrategy.eu/nyheter/opinions/european-global-strategy-in-a-world-of-power-transition
Cyprus Presidency of the European Union, Conference on Innovative European Defence Cooperation – Pooling and Consolidating Demand, Brussels 19 September 2012: invited delegate
Egmont Institute-IRSEM, Working Group on Transatlantic Security Relations: 1st meeting, Brussels, 18 September 2012; 2nd meeting, Paris 26 October 2012
European Geostrategy. Interview with Jolyon Howorth, 4 September 2012, accessed at: http://europeangeostrategy.ideasoneurope.eu/2012/09/04/interview-with-jolyon-howorth/
Egmont: Royal Institute for International Relations. Policy Brief: “CSDP and NATO post-Libya: Towards the Rubicon?”, Security Policy Brief No.35, July 2012, 6 pages: http://www.egmontinstitute.be/papers/12/sec-gov/SPB35-Howorth.pdf
European Defence Agency, Brussels. Meeting of Strategic Advisory Group, 19 July 2012
Foreign Policy “European Defense Policy Needs Recalibration”, 29 June 2012: http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/29/european_defense_post_libya_towards_the_rubicon
Public Service Europe, Brussels. Article: “A Week in the Life of Jolyon Howorth”, 29 May 2012
http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1998/seven-days-a-week-in-the-life-of-jolyon-howorth
European Defence Agency, Brussels. Article, “The impact on European defence of the new US/Obama military strategy”, European Defence Matters, Issue 1, May 2012, pp.50-51: http://www.eda.europa.eu/docs/eda-magazine/edm_issue1
Franco-British Council, “We need to talk about Europe”, Paper to Annual Defence Conference 2012, hosted by British Embassy, Paris, 21 March 2012
European Defence Agency, Brussels. Meeting of Strategic Advisory Group, October 2011
Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), Paris. Meetings of Conseil Scientifique, Paris, 9 October and 16 December 2011
Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Member of Advisory Committee for the collaborative project leading to the publication of Paul B. Stares and Micah Zenko, Partners in Preventive Action: The United States and International Institutions, Council Special Report #62, September 2011
Polish Presidency of the European Union, Joint Seminar with Egmont Institute, Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations, on EU Battlegroups. Paper on “Towards a Civil Military Strategy for CSDP”, Brussels, July 2011
World Politics Review, “UK-France Defense Treaty”, Interview with Global Insider, 2 June 2011, accessed at: http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/9043/global-insider-u-k-france-defense-treaty
International Affairs Forum “What does the Libyan Crisis say about EU Defence Policy?”, Interview with Center for International Studies, June 2011, pp.23-27, accessed at: http://ia-forum.org/Content/ViewInternalDocument.cfm?ContentID=7855
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Seminar on “The EU and NATO: Opportunities and Challenges”, Advanced Command and Staff Course, Shrivenham, January 2011
Chatham House and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Expert Workshop on “The European External Action Service and the EU’s evolving Foreign and Security Policy”, London, December 2010
Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (Paris), International Working Group on « Europe Deploys : towards a civil-military strategy for CSDP », Paris, November 2010
Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte, article: “Transatlantische Beziehungen im Ubergang“, 10/2010, pp.37-40 (with Vivien Schmidt)
EU Institute for Security Studies, “EU Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon”, Roundtable opening session at Annual Conference on Global Governance: Building on the Civil Society Agenda, Paris, October 2010
Belgian Presidency, Council of the European Union, “The Challenges of Defence Cooperation among EU Member States”, Keynote Address to Expert Seminar on Permanent Structured Cooperation, Brussels, July 2010, published as: “Strategy and the Importance of Defence Cooperation among EU Member States”, Egmont Institute, Security Policy Brief #12, September 2010, 6 pages: http://www.egmontinstitute.be/papers/10/sec-gov/SPB-12_Howorth-defence-cooperation.pdf
EU Institute for Security Studies, “Global Challenges and the EU Means of Action”, Paper to Conference on EU External Policy under the Lisbon Treaty: The Principle of Coherence and the Challenges of Global Governance, Paris, June 2010
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, “Going Global? CSDP post-Lisbon”, Paper to Conference on: Cautiously Global: the New EU as World Power?, Berlin, June 2010
Austrian Ministry of Defence, “Austria, the EU and Strategic Vision”, Paper to: Expert Workshop, Landesverteidigungsakademie, Vienna, June 2010
European Union-Institute for Security Studies, “The EU and NATO’s “new strategic concept”, Brainstorming Workshop: European Perspectives on NATO’s Strategic Concept, Paris, May 2010 (2nd session Brussels, July 2010)
Land Warfare Studies Centre, Australian Army. Paper on “The EU, NATO and crisis management missions: towards a new global division of labour?”, Changing Character of War Seminar Series, Canberra, March 2010
Security Community, Brussels, Interview broadcast on “The EU and Grand Strategy”, February 2010. Accessed at http://vimeo.com/9667034
Bureau of European Policy Advisers, European Commission. Paper on “CSDP after Lisbon: forging a global grand bargain”, First Expert Session, Europe’s Role in a New World Order, Brussels, February 2010
European Commission. Paper on “The Way Forward: (Re-)Building an EU-US Strategic Partnership”, Conference on Mapping the Future of the EU-US Partnership: Policy and Research Perspectives, Brussels, January 2010
Transatlantic Forum, Washington DC, Invited Participant, November 2009
European Union-Institute for Security Studies. Invited delegate to Annual Conference, Paris, October 2009
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung & Fundacion Alternatives. Keynote speech on “Opportunities for a more strategic approach to CSDP”, Conference The EU as an International Actor under the Spanish Presidency, Madrid, October 2009
European Council, “ESDP: the need for clearer strategic focus”, article in special issue of ESDP Newsletter on ESDP at Ten, edited and presented by Javier Solana, Brussels, August 2009, pp. 36-37
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Invited Delegate to International High Level Conference on NATO’s “New Strategic Concept”, Brussels, July 2009
Bertelsmann Foundation “A Framework Chapter on ESDP and the European Parliament”, Paper to Venusberg Workshop on European Parliament Briefing Book, Brussels, July 2009
Security and Defence Agenda, “NATO’s Core Purpose”, Contribution to SDA Discussion Paper, Re-launching NATO or Just Re-Branding It? SDA, Brussels, June 2009, pp.17-18.
Egmont Institute, Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations “Brainstorming Grand Strategy”, Expert Workshop, Brussels, June 2009
EUR-IFRI, “A New Institutional Architecture for the Transatlantic Relationship?”, Paper to International Conference, Brussels, June 2009
Helsinki Defence College, “CFSP and ESDP: the major challenges ahead” Paper to Conference on Future Perspectives of ESDP - Changing Nature of Crisis and Conflict and the Demands for Missions/Operations, at National Defence University, Helsinki, June 2009
Chief Executives Organization, Paris University 2009, “NATO at Sixty: a Health Check”, Hôtel Georges V, Paris, May 2009
Rand Corporation & Bertelsmann Foundation. Teleconference Launch of Revitalising the Transatlantic Security Partnership, Brussels, 3 March 2009
Venusberg Group,Bertelsmann Foundation, European Briefing Book on Security and Defence Workshop, Brussels 2-3 March 2009
International Institute for Strategic Studies, “EU Reforms wait on Ireland”, Strategic Comment, Volume 15, Issue 12, March 2009
EU-Institute for Security Studies, Transatlantic Forum. Invited delegate, Washington DC November 2008
European Commission: Bureau of European Policy Advisors, Brussels. Paper on “A New Dawn for Transatlantic Relations” to Workshop on Towards a More Coherent and Effective European International Action,, Brussels November 2008
Ministère de la Défense Nationale (France), High Level Seminar on ESDP Capabilities and Missions, Paper on « What Capabilities for What Missions ? », Marseille, October 2008.
European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris. Official Delegate to Annual Conference, Paris October 2008
Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris. Invited Delegate to Inaugural World Policy Conference, Evian, France, October 2008 http://www.worldpolicyconference.com/
European Union Institute for Security Studies; Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris. Final Workshop on European Interests and Strategic Options : Which Strategy to Serve EU Security Interests ? - Invited Delegate, October 2008
European Commission: Bureau of European Policy Advisors, Brussels. “Renewing European-American Security Cooperation: Towards a New ‘Grand Strategy’?”, BEPA Monthly Brief, Issue 17, September 2008
Finnish Institute of International Affairs; European Union Institute for Security Studies; Swedish Institute of International Affairs; “How to Improve ESDP Tools, Capabilities and Financing”, Paper to High Level Workshop on: Strengthening ESDP: The EU’s Approach to International Security. Helsinki, September 2008
Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. Report: Europe After Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain, September 2008 (co-author)
Telos article: “The New New World Order”, Telos 4 September 2008, accessed at: http://www.telos-eu.com/en/article/the_new_new_world_order. Also published in French as “Le Monde unipolaire est terminé” at http://telos-eu.com/fr/article/le_monde_unipolaire_est_termine and as Op-Ed in La Tribune, 09 Septembre 2008 http://www.latribune.fr/impression/Le-monde-unipolaire-est-termine-~-ID94AF38F2A1D9DCDDC12574BE00433555-$Db=Tribune/Articles.nsf .
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris. High Level Seminar on the EU-NATO Relationship, Paris, July 2008 – Invited Delegate
Institut Français des Relations Internationales and Bertelsmann Stiftung, Paper on « The French White Book on Defence: Implications for ESDP », Roundtable Debate, Brussels, June 2008
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI-Bruxelles), Paper on « La Politique Etrangère et de Sécurité Commune » at Colloquium on Les Enjeux de la Présidence française de l’Union européenne, Brussels, June 2008
Bertelsmann Foundation & Rand Corporation, Paper on “ESDP and NATO: Demystifying the Relationship”, Paper to 3rd Meeting of EU-US Working Group on Security and Defense, Washington DC, June 2008
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paper on “The European Union’s Overseas Missions: Lessons Learned since 2003”, Workshop at The Diplomatic Round Table (Japan Forum on International Relations; The Global Forum of Japan; The Council of East Asian Community), Tokyo, May 2008
Japanese Ministry of Defence, Paper on “Security and Defence Policy in the European Union: the EU and Peace-Building”, Workshop at National Institute for Defence Studies (NIDS), Tokyo, May 2008
Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Paper on “ESDP over the next five years: prospects and challenges”, Helsinki, May 2008
Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Paper on “The Future of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy” at Workshop on the Finnish White Book on Defence, Helsinki, May 2008
Royal United Services Institute (London) and Bertelsmann Foundation (Guterslöh), “How best to organise Europeans to strategic effect: towards a Saint Malo 2?”, Paper to Workshop on Where Next for ESDP? , London, May 2008
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. “EUFOR in Chad and CAR: The EU’s most Taxing Misssion Yet”, Strategic Comments, Volume 14, Issue 04, May 2008
Bertelsmann Foundation & Rand Corporation. Member of US-European Working Group on Security & Defence. Meetings in Brussels (January), Munich (April) and Washington DC (June) 2008
German Marshall Fund of the United States. Invited Participant at Brussels Forum 2008, Brussels, March 2008.
European Parliament, Brussels, Paper on “The Future of the European Security Strategy: towards a White Book on European Defence” given to Workshop organised by the EP Sub-Committee on Security and Defence, 6 March 2008. Paper published as EP Working Paper PE388.944, March 2008 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?file=20867 .
Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations « Strategic Culture, Operations and Capabilities », Chair of Panel at Conference on Global Europe: Strategy and Identity, Brussels, December 2007
Telos, Article “France, Britain and the Future of Europe: the Gathering Storm?”, published 24 November 2007 (also published in French as “Sur l’Europe, Paris et Londres sont toujours divisés”, 28 November 2007 http://www.telos-eu.com/fr/article/sur_leurope_paris_et_londres_sont_toujours_divis )
European Union Institute for Security Studies, Invited Participant in Annual Conference of EU-ISS, November 2007
Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques and Centre for European Reform. Invited Participant in 3rd Franco-British Forum, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, November 2007
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK, “ESDP: Towards a European Strategic Culture?”, article in Sandhurst review, The Wishstream, 2007
Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris. Chair of Public Debate on « The Israel Lobby » with John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt and André Kaspi, November 2007
European Policy Centre, Brussels. “The Institutional Logic Behind the European External Action Service”, (with Anne-Marie Le Gloannec) in Graham Avery & Antonio Missiroli (eds.), The EU Foreign Service: how to build a more effective foreign policy, Brussels, EPC, 2007, pp.27-35 (November – EPC Working Paper 28)
Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris, Centre des Etudes de Sécurité – Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Défense, Paper on “The Political and Security Committee and the Emergence of a European Security Identity”, November 2007
Rand Corporation and EU Institute for Security Studies. Participant in Brainstorming “Europe’s Role in Nation-Building”, EU-ISS, Paris, October 2007
Auswaertiges Amt & Bertelsmann Stiftung, Paper “How to Respond to Missile Proliferation”, Expert Round Table on Missile Defence, Bertelsmann Haus, Berlin, September 2007
Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. Member of Commission on “Europe After Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain”, London, June 2007 to February 2008. Discussion Paper for Session on ESDP, September 2007.
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. Article, “Reforming Europe: the EU Moves On”, published in Strategic Comments, Volume 13, Issue 06, August 2007
Telos, Article “EU Foreign and Security Policy with the Mini-Treaty”, published 29 June 2007 (also published in French as “L’Europe n’a toujours pas de telephone”, 30 June 2007)
Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC. Paper entitled “NATO, the New Strategic Concept” for Conference on Terms of Engagement: The Euro-Atlantic Partnership at Sixty, Brussels, June 2007
Security & Defence Agenda, Brussels, Invited participant in conference on “NATO and ESDP: Forging New Links”, Brussels, June 2007
European Policy Centre, Brussels, Round Table on: “Will the EU ever have a common foreign policy?”, Brussels, June 2007
German Marshall Fund of the United States. Invited Participant at Brussels Forum 2007, Brussels, April 2007.
Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris, « Le Bilan stratégique de Tony Blair : faut-il et peut-on copier la politique d’influence britannique », paper to Centre d’Etudes de Sécurité, April 2007
European Policy Centre, Brussels. Member of working-party on a strategy for the organisation of the European External Action Service, April-December 2007.
India International Centre, New Delhi. “Transatlantic Relations in the Shadow of Iraq: Convergence or Divergence?” Paper to the international policy community, February 2007
German Government, Conference to launch the German Presidency of the EU: “ESDP from Cologne to Berlin and Beyond: Operations, Institutions, Capabilities”, Berlin, January 2007. Invited participant.
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, “The EU as a Security Actor”, Seminar for military officers and career diplomats of PfP countries on 11th European Security Policy Training Course, January 2007.
Centre for European Reform, Seminar on the “Future of the European Foreign Policy”, Egmont Palace, Brussels, January 2007. Invited participant.
Center for Transatlantic Studies and EU Institute for Security Studies. Invited Participant at Conference on The EU-US Partnership: Delivering Results?, Washington DC, November 2006
European Union Institute for Security Studies. Invited Participant at Annual Conference: “Les Défis du Futur”, Paris, October 2006
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Paris) “Mai 2005-Mai 2006: Quelles Stratégies pour l’Union Européenne?” Déjeuner-Débat, Press Club de France, May 2006
Bertelsmann Stiftung Conference on “Overcoming National Impediments to ESDP: The Big Three”, Venusberg Group, Berlin, March 2006
Franco-British Council. Invited Participant in Conference on “Defence Europe: the role of France and the UK”, Army and Navy Club, London, March 2006
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, “ESDP as a functioning security instrument”, Seminar for military officers and career diplomats of PfP countries on 10th European Security Policy Training Course, January 2006.
European Union: Institute for Security Studies. Invited participant at Annual Conference, “L’Union Européenne en Questions”, Paris, September 2005
NATO Studies Center, Bucharest, “European Security in the Coming Decade: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives”, published as working paper in Strategic Issues Review, July 2005, 31 pages.
Young Europeans for Security, Copenhagen, “The Constitutional Treaty and ESDP”, web-site article for Danish referendum debate on www.yes-dk.dk, July 2005
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Paris), Public Round Table on “Après le 29 Mai : quelle Europe?”, 15 June 2005
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Paris), “Prospects for the UK Presidency of the European Union”, Document de Travail 9, June 2005
Japanese Defence Ministry: “European Analyses of the Prospects for Transatlantic Harmony and the Fight Against Terrorism Under the Second Bush Administration”, Conference for MOD and MFA officials on “The Security Policy of the United States during the Second Bush Administration and its Implications”, NIDS, Tokyo, February 2005, published in Proceedings of the NIDS International Symposium on Security Affairs, Tokyo, NIDS, 2005, pp.91-101
Center for Applied Policy Research, “European Intervention and International Legitimacy and Credibility”, Conference on “Transatlantic Crisis Management Simulation on ESDP – ‘Europe in Crisis’”, Munich, November 2004
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Romania-UK Seminar on ESDP, Keynote Address, “European Security in the Coming Decade: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives”, Bucharest, October 2004. Workshop for UK and Romanian officials from Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence
European Union: Institute for Security Studies. Invited participant at Annual Conference, “L’Union Européenne: Acteur de Sécurité Globale”, Paris, September 2004
Ministère de la Défense: Délégation aux Affaires Stratégiques, France. Commissioned Report on “L’Impact sur les Organisations de Défense du Concept de Coalition de Circonstance”, Paris, August 2004, 84 pages
Clingendael Institute, The Hague. “ESDP 2004: new scope, new policy, new initiatives”, Paper for closed conference organised by Dutch Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Foreign Affairs on “European Security: the Agenda for the Dutch Presidency”, June 2004
Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh, Invited participant. Policy Conference on “European Defence: Agenda for the Future”, Bruxelles, May 2004
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. “Europe’s Big Three: trilateral impetus?”, Strategic Comments, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2004
Royal Institute for International Relations (Belgium) and Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), “The Capacities at Europe’s Disposal”, Paper given to Conference “Able and Willing” on Europe’s Military Capacity, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, March 2004, Published in Conference Proceedings, pp.16-33.
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, “The Future of ESDP”, Seminar for military officers and career diplomats of PfP countries on 8th European Security Policy Training Course, March 2004.
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. “EU Operational Planning: the politics of defence”, Strategic Comments, Volume 9, Issue 10, December 2003
US Military Academy, West Point, Seminar for Cadets and Faculty, “ESDP Today: Progress and Problems in 2003”, West Point, New York, December 2003
Notre Europe, Paris, “ESDP Plus Five: developments in European Security since Saint-Malo”, Policy Paper on-line at www.notre-europe.asso.fr. (December 2003) and available as a policy brochure from Notre Europe.
Oxford Analytica, Oxford. Annual Conference 2003. Panels on “The Crisis of Transatlantic Relations”, September 2003
European Union, Institute for Security Studies. Annual Conference, Official Delegate, Paris, June 2003
Royal Military Academy of Belgium, Brussels. Workshop Leader: “What Type of Transatlantic Solidarity” – for European officer cadets, 2nd European Military Academies Conference, June 2003.
World Affairs Council, Seattle: Workshop Series on: Differences in Foreign Policy “A European Perspective”, May 2003.
Boeing Corporation: “European Defence at the Crossroads”, Executive Report on the implications of ESDP, EU Enlargement, Crisis in NATO and European Defence Industry cooperation, May 2003 (75 pages).
United States Air Force Academy: “The Implications for NATO of recent transatlantic squabbles over Iraq”, and “ESDP since 9/11: back to the drawing board?”, Workshops for cadets, Colorado Springs, March 2003.
Geneva Centre for Security Policy: “The History of British French Relations: a British View” and “Will the Number of Major European Players Enlarge?”, Seminars for military officers and career diplomats of PfP countries on 7th European Security Policy Training Course, February 2003.
DGAP/IFRI/RIIA, Trilateral Anglo-Franco-German Policy Conference on “European Defence at the Crossroads”, Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris, December 2002.
Bertelsmann Foundation/Venusberg Group, “ESDP and NATO: joint future or deadlock?”, Conference on “Evaluating NATO’s Future and the Consequences for Europe’s Security”, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, The Hague, December 2002.
National Committee on American Foreign Policy, New York. Invited participant in Conference on “Reinventing the Transatlantic Partnership”, New York, October 2002.
British Embassy, Paris. Closed seminar for French and British government officials and experts on “The EU’s External Identity”, October 2002 (invited).
US State Department: “The Reform of EU Decision-making”, Workshop on “The European Union: The Road Not Yet Taken”, Washington DC, September 2002.
Ecoles Militaires de Saint-Cyr/Coëtquidan “European security interests: what are the crisis scenarios and areas of intervention”, Round Table Chair, 1st European Military Academies Conference, Brittany, France, July 2002.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Joint organiser of Franco-British Defence Cooperation Workshop for government officials and national experts, Chair of session on “Crisis Management: future CFSP and ESDP Scenarios”, Lancaster House, London, July 2002.
Chief Executives Organisation: Coastal European University, Seminars on French & European Security Policy, Lisbon, Bordeaux, June 2002.
New Defence Agenda, Brussels: Defence and Security in an Uncertain World project. Member of Working Group II - “Europe’s Security Aims and its Zone of Stability”, Meetings in Brussels, May 2002 to May 2003 (invited).
Mouvement Européen, France: “La Politique européenne de sécurité et de défense”. Seminar for French MEPs and European Officials, Paris, April 2002.
French-American Chamber of Commerce (Philadelphia Chapter): Luncheon address on “France after Mitterrand”, Philadelphia, Pa, March 2002.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, European Secretariat of the Cabinet Office. “Future of Europe” project. Member of Working Group on “External Relations”. March 2002 to date.
Notre Europe, Paris, “The European Security Conundrum: Prospects for ESDP after 11 September 2001”, Policy Paper on-line at www.notre-europe.asso.fr. (March 2002) and available as a policy brochure from Notre Europe.
Thales Corporation. Seminars for senior managers on “The Strategic Background to European defence procurement”. Thales UK headquarters, Reading, March 2002; Thales France HQ, Château des Mesnuls, April 2002.
European Union Institute for Security Studies : Official participant in Seminar on “European Defence after 11 September”, Paris, March 2002
Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, Paris. 1ère Session Internationale Euro-Méditerranéenne. Seminar on “European Security Institutional Coordination” for diplomats and officials from 16 Mediterranean countries, February 2002
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Seminar on “Franco-British defence cooperation” for diplomats and military officers from 15 PfP countries at 6th European Security Policy Training School, Geneva, January 2002.
US State Department, Scenario-building Workshop on “Alternative Futures for European Security and Defence”, Washington DC, January 2002
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Round Table on “The World since 11 September 2001”, Paris, November 2001
Government of Canada, Ottawa and Government of Quebec, Quebec City: Seminars for government officials on “EU-Canada foreign and security relations”, November 2001
Danish Institute of International Affairs – Dupi: Workshop for government officials and experts on “What to Defend and How to Defend?”, Copenhagen, November 2001
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London: Briefing for outgoing UK Ambassador to France on French defence policy, October 2001
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris: Joint organiser of Franco-German & Franco-British Defence Workshops for government officials and national experts, July-October 2001. Paper on “What is ‘finality’ for ESDP?”
Western European Union-Institute for Security Studies . Official participant in “2001 Paris Transatlantic Conference: Transatlantic Relations and the Bush Administration”, Paris, June 2001
Délégation aux Affaires Stratégiques, French Ministry of Defence: Commissioned Report on “British Policy towards NATO in the near Future”, November 2000.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office: UK Delegation to Anglo-Portuguese Defence Planning Seminar, British Embassy, Lisbon, October 2000.
Economic & Social Research Council (UK): “The European Defence Initiative”, “One Europe or Several” Briefing Note 2/00, July 2000
British Embassy, Paris and Institut Français des Relations Internationales: Organiser of Franco-British Defence and Security Cooperation Workshop, Paris, June 2000.
Royal Aeronautical Society (UK): “European Defence Autonomy: a strengthening of NATO or the blind leading the blind?”, 49th Annual Barnwell Lecture, June 2000.
Boeing Corporation: Executive Report. “The European Defence Outlook in 2000: an analysis”, June 2000, 28pp.
WEU-Institute for Security Studies: Official Participant in Annual Conferences and Workshops on CESDP, NMD, Euro-American relations, CFSP, Military Intervention in FRY (January 2000 to date).
European Commission: Chair of Working Party of Jean Monnet Professors drafting reports on CESDP issues emerging from the Intergovernmental Conference, 1999-2000.
Délégation aux Affaires Stratégiques, French Ministry of Defence: Commissioned Report on “British Perceptions of French Defence Policy and Capacity”, December 1998, 32 pp.
Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Training Institute, MGIMO: Consultancy on “The Europeanisation of EU Foreign and Security Policy”, November 1998 & September 1999.
Exxon Corporation: Executive Report. “Prospects for Francophone Central Africa: an analysis”, December 1997, 33 pages.
European Commission: Chair of Working Party of Jean Monnet Professors drafting papers for the European Council on CFSP issues emerging from the Intergovernmental Conference, 1996.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Royal Institute of International Affairs, London: Member of Study Group on British Foreign Policy for 2000, 1994-1996.