Prof. Dr. Daniel Fiott
20 April 2023 14h-16h CET
Online via ZOOM
Abstract
In March 2022, the EU released its first-ever defence strategy, called the Strategic Compass. In addition to providing guidance for security and defence policy through 2030, the Compass details how the EU might approach the issue of security and outer space. Flowing from the Strategic Compass, the EU agreed in March 2023 to its first Strategy for Space, Security and Defence. Taken together, these strategies mark a new focus on the strategic elements of space and they seemingly challenge the hitherto commercial logic of EU space policy. This lecture will investigate whether the Strategic Compass and the new Space, Security and Defence Strategy will fundamentally alter the EU’s space governance.
Bio
Dr Daniel Fiott is Assistant Professor at the Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Here, he heads the “Defence and Statecraft” programme at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy. Dr Fiott is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Madrid-based Real Elcano Institute. Prior to this, Fiott was a defence analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies and a visiting lecturer at the Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent.
Moderator: Ms. Giulia Pavesi (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies)