Luis Simón
@luissimonn.bsky.social
Prof & Director CSDS - VUB // Director & Senior Analyst Brussels Office Elcano
📢 Join jus today in 🇪🇸 Madrid or on-line! Happy to speak at the conference ‘Preventing War, Defending More: The Strengthening of #NATO @luissimonn.bsky.social 🗓️ 18/11.12.00h CET 📲 #TransformaciónOTAN realinstitutoelcano.org/actividades/me… @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social @isdp-sweden.bsky.social
Looking forward to this event in Brussels next week!
CSDS Brussels@csds.bsky.social · 11mo ago❗Register Now❗ ➡️ Caught in the Middle? US-China Competition and the Implications for Europe 🤝 IFS Norway 🗓️ 19 November 2025 ⏳ 11:00-12:30 📍 Press Club Europe, Brussels Register here csds.vub.be/event/caught...
In this new piece for @ejir.bsky.social Stephan Klose and I discuss how US allies balance security and autonomy, focusing on 🇯🇵 and 🇵🇱 . 🙏 to @erc.europa.eu for the support 👇👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... cc: @michitotsuruoka.bsky.social @lanoszka.bsky.social @danielfiott.bsky.social
With or without you: how junior allies balance security and autonomy - Luis Simón, Stephan Klose, 2025
Secondary states that engage in external balancing are willing to trade some autonomy for the increased security that comes with the protection offered by a gre...
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New special issue by @luissimonn.bsky.social and @danielfiott.bsky.social very much gets at the complexities over time of how great powers do wedging or binding, to themselves and others. Here: China, EU, US. A great analytical framework I hope others use: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition
The intensifying great power competition between the United States and China is having a profound effect on global order and Europe’s place in the world. Sino-American competition affects multiple ...
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𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞: '𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬-𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐲' 🇪🇺 🇺🇲 🇨🇳 co-edited by @luissimonn.bsky.social & @danielfiott.bsky.social Issue 47(6) is now available in open access! It features the following articles: www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/4...
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Europe and the United States-China Rivalry. Volume 47, Issue 6 of Journal of European Integration
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Check out our @jei-publication.bsky.social special issue on Europe in US-China rivalry. Huge thx to @danielfiott.bsky.social for co-leading this, to all the great authors, and to @erc.europa.eu
I am extremely proud and pleased to see this major academic work on European autonomy and U.S.-China rivalry published as a special issue by the Journal of European Integration. All articles are open access! More below👇🏻 www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/4...
Journal of European Integration
Europe and the United States-China Rivalry. Volume 47, Issue 6 of Journal of European Integration
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Luis Simón (@luissimonn.bsky.social), Lotje Boswinkel (@lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social) se penchent sur la question de la négociation et de la signature d’un accord qui ont été des sujets importants depuis l’arrivée de Donald Trump et les différentes tentatives. lerubicon.org/lukraine-leu...
L'Ukraine, l'Europe et l'art de la négociation
L’annonce du futur président Donald Trump quant à la fin de la guerre en Ukraine irait à l’encontre de la volonté européenne d’aide l’Ukraine à se défendre contre la guerre d’agression menée par la Ru...
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#ICYMI Our Director @luissimonn.bsky.social recently published a commentary piece with @warontherocks.bsky.social outlining three alternative approaches to deterrence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Read now🔸 warontherocks.com/2025/06/thre...
❗New Analysis❗ "Three Alternative Approaches to Deterrence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific", by Luis Simón for War on the Rocks. Read🔸 warontherocks.com/2025/06/thre... #Deterrence @luissimonn.bsky.social @warontherocks.bsky.social
New @csds.bsky.social policy brief with @luissimonn.bsky.social in which we explore four scenarios for US force posture in Europe, and the various dilemma’s and trade-offs that Europeans face moving forward 👉 csds.vub.be/publication/...
What if Hell Breaks Loose? Imagining a post-American Europe - CSDS
The second Trump administration is encouraging Europeans to take primary responsibility for conventional defence, but what this means for United States’ (US) conventional forces in Europe remains uncl...
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❗Top Ten Time❗ What are the most popular CSDS analytical products of 2025, so far? Congratulations to all our authors and speakers on our list! Engage with our work: Policy Briefs🔸 csds.vub.be/policy-briefs/ In-Depth Papers🔸 csds.vub.be/in-depth-pap... Strategy Speaks🔸 csds.vub.be/podcasts/
🔴LIVE NOW | The Impossible State Podcast What Are U.S. and NATO Views on China? Speakers: @victordcha.bsky.social @henriettalevin.bsky.social @luissimonn.bsky.social We’ll be live-posting key takeaways right here on Bluesky. 🔗 www.csis.org/events/impos...
The Impossible State Live Podcast: What Are U.S. and NATO Views on China? | CSIS Events
Please join the Impossible State podcast for a discussion on the United States and NATO views of China.
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In this thread @tongfi-kim.bsky.social summarises superbly our latest article for @cspjournal.bsky.social
@tongfi-kim.bsky.social · last yr.Open Access Article in @cspjournal.bsky.social by @luissimonn.bsky.social and me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... THREAD. Many people who see this post (well, not so many) are probably familiar with wedge strategies, “a state’s attempt to prevent, break up, or weaken a threatening or blocking
Open Access Article in @cspjournal.bsky.social by @luissimonn.bsky.social and me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... THREAD. Many people who see this post (well, not so many) are probably familiar with wedge strategies, “a state’s attempt to prevent, break up, or weaken a threatening or blocking
Levels of division: How wedge strategies shape international and domestic politics
States often seek to undermine their competitors in order to obtain a favorable balance of power. Yet, the literature on how they actually do that remains sparse and disconnected. We focus on how a...
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‼️Brussels 360 Speakers‼️ Join us and Luis Simón (CSDS) on the #Brussels360 course to discuss and learn about US grand strategy and its effects on European security. 🐦 Apply by 23 April 2025 for early-bird fees! Apply today🔸 csds.vub.be/executive-co... @luissimonn.bsky.social
What can Europeans do to strengthen deterrence should the U.S draw down its engagement in Europe? To find out listen to this terrific @csds.bsky.social podcast with @lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social @elieperot.bsky.social & @danielfiott.bsky.social
CSDS Brussels@csds.bsky.social · 2y ago❗New Strategy Speaks Episode❗ In episode 14 of #StrategySpeaks, Lotje Boswinkel and Elie Perot join Daniel Fiott for a discussion about Europe's nuclear and conventional military deterrence. Apple🔸 podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/s... Spotify🔸 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/csd...
First and most importantly: I am immensely, immensely grateful to @kienzle.bsky.social and @rgwhitman.bsky.social for their incredible support - from the research proposal to the viva. They were true supervisor superheroes and I learned so much from them!
Wondering what this debate about France’s nuclear umbrella is all about: check out this excellent piece by @elieperot.bsky.social on the opportunities and limitations
Must-read piece by @lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social for @warontherocks.bsky.social on why the European allies must step up their long range strike game cc: @csds.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/euro...
Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike - War on the Rocks
It turns out Europe’s favorite American import isn’t fast food or Netflix. It’s missiles, and Europe needs to start making its own. Eight weeks into the
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La guerra en Ucrania y un EEUU cada vez más distante de la seguridad europea obliga a renovar esfuerzos en la industria de defensa europea y España tendrá que contribuir a su desarrollo. ✍️ Félix Arteaga @danielfiott.bsky.social @luissimonn.bsky.social www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/a-p...
¿A por todas? El renacer industrial de la defensa española y europea
España necesita un enfoque estratégico para reestructurar su base industrial de defensa en un contexto geopolítico deteriorado.
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El 27/02, 12 h., Charles Powell modera la mesa redonda de @rielcano.bsky.social "¿Hacia dónde va la guerra en Ucrania?" con Félix Arteaga, Carlota G. Encina, Mira Milosevich, Miguel Otero y @luissimonn.bsky.social. #GuerraUcrania2025 Todos los detalles ⤵️ www.realinstitutoelcano.org/actividades/...
Mesa redonda ‘‘¿Hacia dónde va la guerra en Ucrania?’’
La guerra en Ucrania cumple tres años en una fase crítica, con esfuerzos diplomáticos para lograr un alto el fuego.
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Happy to share this new publication! 📖 I received the new Oxford Handbook of NATO in the mail yesterday morning 📚 @luissimonn.bsky.social and I have a chapter on NATO's adaptation between 2014-2022, titled 'forward deployment and reassurance.' (1/2)
❗Podcast❗ Our Director Luis Simón recently appeared on "The Insider" podcast by War on the Rocks. He discussed his recent piece for WoTR on the "axis of upheaval". Listen🔸 warontherocks.com/episode/the-... @luissimonn.bsky.social @warontherocks.bsky.social
❗New Analysis❗ Writing in War on the Rocks, our Director Luis Simón reflects on how the Trump administration may deal with the "Axis of Upheaval". An extremely timely read for our followers. Read🔸 warontherocks.com/2025/01/the-... @luissimonn.bsky.social @warontherocks.bsky.social
❗New Analysis❗ In this new @warontherocks.bsky.social piece, Luis Simón and Toshi Yoshihara argue that any war with China over Taiwan would likely compel European military involvement in one form or another. Read🔸 warontherocks.com/2025/01/can-... @luissimonn.bsky.social
Indeed! Many thanks to everyone that has spoken at a CSDS event this year - we cannot thank you enough for sharing your thoughts at our conferences! More in 2025!
CSDS Brussels@csds.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat a year for CSDS! We want to thank everyone that spoke at our events during 2024. You enriched the debates. We want to thank Alexander de Croo, Roberta Metsola, Tsai Ing-wen, Baiba Braže, Mélanie Joly, Stefano Sannino, Julianne Smith, Joseph Nye and many more! Events🔸 csds.vub.be/past-events/
¿En qué políticas y áreas los eurodiputados españoles tendrán más peso esta legislatura? Así queda el mapa de la influencia española en Bruselas de aquí a 2029. ✍️ Raquel García, @ignacio-molina.bsky.social @luissimonn.bsky.social Paula Oliver www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/la-...
La influencia española en el Parlamento Europeo ante la legislatura 2024-2029 - Real Instituto Elcano
España, con la cuarta mayor delegación en el Parlamento Europeo, se prepara para influir en la agenda y políticas de la UE en 2024-2029.
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