New @CSIS analysis: Deterrence at Scale.
As precision strike and massed fires proliferate, effective deterrence will increasingly depend on allies generating scale together across theaters.
Read here: csis.org/analysis/deter…
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Luis Simón
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Luis Simón
@LuisSimn
@CSDS_Brussels Director & Professor @VUBrussel // Director of the Brussels Office and Senior Analyst @rielcano
Brussels, Europe Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Europa entra en una nueva fase. EE. UU. seguirá en la OTAN —pero ya no será el garante principal de la defensa convencional.
¿Está dispuesta Europa a asumir la responsabilidad estratégica que lleva décadas posponiendo?
Mi artículo en @el_pais elpais.com/opinion/2026-0…
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Amb. IZAWA invited @CSDS_Brussels Director @LuisSimn to his residence for a lunch to thank him for the good cooperation last year and to cheers to new opportunities to cooperate in the future 🥂
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Grateful to my friends in #Spain at @rielcano for publishing this piece. Special thanks to @LuisSimn I like and commend his concept of fungibility: using national security priorities to generate capabilities useful for defence priorities of others. Solidarity in diversity! 👇
Real Instituto Elcano@rielcano
In a context where the United States expects Europeans to accelerate the process of assuming primary responsibility for their own security, Europe should seek to preserve NATO while developing its own #defence capabilities. ✍️ @RobertPszczel realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/th…
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Check this out 👇👇👇
CSDS@CSDS_Brussels
❗New Strategy Speaks Episode❗ "Japan is Back: What Takaichi's Landslide Win Means for Japan's Security and Relations with Europe" With Eva Pejsova and Céline Pajon! Apple podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/str… Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5jEBBK… YouTube youtu.be/gg5Ts8ppDns
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In 2025, CSDS emerged as a key location within the Euro-Atlantic’s analytical ecosystem, generating analysis in academia and policy. Thanks to our sponsors and partners for making this possible!
Read our 2025 Annual Report
csds.vub.be/csds-annual-re…
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I am ver glad that many leading Japanologists fully understand, and rightly explain, the realities of Japanese politics, unlike some misleading media reports.
Jennifer Lind@profLind
Impressive election victory for Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi. If you're sick of Western headlines about the far-right, extremist, hawkish, right-wing ultraconservative PM and the fights she's picking with China, I repost this for you: blueblaze.substack.com/p/a-hawk-in-ea…
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A pleasure to visit Delhi to discuss how Europe and India navigate strategic competition and the future of the Europe-India partnership! Many thanks to @AnantaAspen, @MEAIndiaX & @EU_in_India
cc: @CSDS_Brussels @rielcano @ERC_Research @researchvub
Ananta Aspen Centre@AnantaAspen
#TheIndiaEUForum2026 Session 14: 5-Dimension Battlefront: Building Resilient Defence Systems The discussion featured @Ramchandan1Arun , Jetendra Gavankar, @LuisSimn , Davide Cucino, and Lt Gen (D.) Rajesh Pant, examining how industry-led innovation is enabling integrated defence capabilities across five domains. Moderated by @IndBagchi. #IndiaEUForum #IndiaEU #DefenceAndSecurity #StrategicResilience #AnantaCentre
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Very much recommended. Theres been an helpful debate about multiple spheres of influence and ‘authoritarian collusion’. Good to see sannity and sober analysis striking back 👇👇
foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…
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New project at @CSDS_Brussels 👇👇
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❗New Project❗ We are delighted to announce that the FWO is supporting our latest research project on "The Weaponisation of Ideas: US-China Competition in the Symbolic Field". The project is led by Prof Caterina Carta. Let's go! Learn more csds.vub.be/project/the-we…
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So good to bump into a sober analysis every once in a while 👇👇
Patrick Porter@PatPorter76
My piece in @TheCriticMag: commentators throw around "spheres of influence" like confetti to describe Trump's foreign policy. But while Trump's U.S. aggressively asserts its sphere, it still works to thwart others'. Some care with concepts is due: thecritic.co.uk/the-fear-of-sp…
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In this new @WarOnTheRocks piece with @OliviaCheung_oc & @Giu_Ter we discuss how Trump-related uncertainty and transactionalism creates openings for China in Europe and Taiwan
cc: @CSDS_Brussels @rielcano
warontherocks.com/2026/01/trump-…
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With all the talk of "Europeanising NATO", Diego Ruiz Palmer and Luis Simón dig into the implications for NATO's operational command structures. They also have some ideas on how to design a more rebalanced operational command structure. A must-read!
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La OTAN no ha muerto. Está entrando en una fase menos cómoda, más exigente y necesariamente más europea. Confundir esa transformación con un certificado de defunción corre el riesgo de convertirse en una profecía autocumplida
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Hoy, Rusia no representa una amenaza existencial comparable a la URSS. Pero eso no hace prescindible a EEUU: su papel sigue siendo clave para la cohesión aliada. Una retirada o confrontación transatlántica llevaría probablemente a una Europa más fragmentada, no más unida.
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Debate @elpais_espana ¿Ha muerto la OTAN tal y como la conocíamos?
elpais.com/opinion/2026-0…
Mi respuesta: la crisis es grave y no debe minimizarse, pero interpretar el momento actual como una “muerte” de la Alianza es histórica y estratégicamente problemático. 🧵👇
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Key message:
A more balanced command structure is not the end of U.S. leadership in NATO — it’s the condition for preserving it in a changing transatlantic context.
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