Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Luis Simón

Post image

📢 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

5 months ago 5 2 0 0

Looking forward to this event in Brussels next week!

5 months ago 3 0 0 0
Preview
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...

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

5 months ago 8 4 2 0
Preview
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 ...

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....

6 months ago 2 1 0 1
Preview
Journal of European Integration Europe and the United States-China Rivalry. Volume 47, Issue 6 of Journal of European Integration

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...

7 months ago 3 3 1 0
Post image

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

7 months ago 6 2 0 0
Preview
Journal of European Integration Europe and the United States-China Rivalry. Volume 47, Issue 6 of Journal of European Integration

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...

7 months ago 13 3 1 0
Advertisement
Preview
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...

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...

9 months ago 4 1 1 0
Post image

#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...

9 months ago 2 1 0 0
Post image

❗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

10 months ago 3 2 0 0
Preview
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...

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/...

10 months ago 5 1 0 0
Post image

❗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/

10 months ago 5 4 1 0
Preview
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.

🔴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...

10 months ago 3 4 34 0

In this thread @tongfi-kim.bsky.social summarises superbly our latest article for @cspjournal.bsky.social

11 months ago 4 1 0 0
Preview
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...

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

11 months ago 5 2 1 1
Post image

‼️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

1 year ago 3 1 0 0

Check this out 👇👇👇

1 year ago 3 0 0 0
Advertisement

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

1 year ago 9 5 0 0

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!

1 year ago 5 1 2 0

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

1 year ago 4 2 0 0
Preview
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

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...

1 year ago 3 1 0 0
Video

❗Executive Course❗

3 days. 16 hours. Geopolitics. Policy. Technology.

Join us in June 2025 for our new "Brussels 360" executive course! Your unique learning and networking opportunity in Brussels! #Brussels360

Apply now🔸 csds.vub.be/brussels-360/

1 year ago 3 3 0 2
Preview
¿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.

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...

1 year ago 5 7 0 0
Preview
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.

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/...

1 year ago 1 2 0 0
Post image Post image

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)

1 year ago 5 1 1 0
Advertisement
Post image

❗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

1 year ago 3 1 0 0
Post image

❗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

1 year ago 3 1 0 0
Post image

❗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

1 year ago 7 4 0 3

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!

1 year ago 4 1 0 0
Preview
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.

¿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-...

1 year ago 1 3 0 0