❗️Brussels 360 - 2027 Edition❗️
Join #Brussels360 2027 to deepen your understanding of the forces shaping Europe's future!
📅 3 days in Brussels (2-4 June 2027)
🎓 Expert-led sessions
🤝 Policy networking
Learn more:
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Please note that our website is currently down for security reasons. We are working to get the site back online as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
We were delighted to organise a kick-off roundtable for our latest initiative, SECURE-INDO, a joint CSDR–CSDS platform for assessing 🇮🇳-🇪🇺 security and defence cooperation. The project is supported by the EU.
More info:
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"The failure of the FCAS raises questions about the most effective way to cooperate in defence in Europe. A modular approach could preserve national autonomy while simultaneously allowing states and industry to integrate underlying technologies".
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❗New CSDS Policy Brief❗
"After FCAS: Towards a Modular Path for European Sixth-Generation Air Power?", by Björn Fägersten
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"The Ceuta events were not a sudden crisis, given that European borders increasingly face hybrid threats involving unauthorised crossings on both the Eastern and Southern flanks".
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"ROK-Europe relations have deepened substantially in recent years, both in terms of the number of issue areas covered and the depth in which they are covered. This was the key message coming out of the fifth edition of the Brussels Korea Forum".
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"Cooperation with Indo-Asia-Pacific partners would remain possible but become narrower, more selective and interest-driven – consistent with a right-wing emphasis on “sovereignism"...", write Michael Reiterer and Mason Richey.
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"South Korea is the largest or second largest Asian investor across many European countries – particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, where South Korean firms have a strong foothold", writes Ramón Pacheco Pardo.
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"South Korea and Europe need a relationship that accounts for the reality of a fragmented international system defined by Sino-American competition and the end of liberal frameworks that promote cooperation", writes Ramón Pacheco Pardo.
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"Ceuta’s vulnerability to the instrumentalisation of migration requires the EU to apply lessons learned from countering similar hybrid operations faced on the eastern flank", write Denis Cenusa and Ivan U. Klyszcz.
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❗New CSDS Policy Brief❗
"Europe and the Indo-Pacific: The Possible Effects of Growing Right-Wing Influence", by Michael Reiterer and Mason Richey.
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❗New CSDS Policy Brief❗
"South Korea-Europe Relations: Reflections from the 2026 Brussels Korea Forum", by Ramón Pacheco Pardo.
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"The Ceuta case raises serious questions for the EU as a whole about how best to protect the southern European borders against actions resembling hybrid warfare", write Denis Cenusa and Ivan U. Klyszcz.
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Are you interested in what's shaping Europe's relationship with the Indo-Pacific? Do you want to know how security, technology and economic dynamics are shaping the two regions?
Join us at the Brussels Indo-Pacific Dialogue on 1 December.
Register
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Yesterday, we were delighted to host Frank Kendall at our first #CSDSConversation of the academic year. We discussed Secretary Kendall's new book, "Lethal Autonomy: The Future of Warfare" (details below). A great discussion!
More info
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Details on the new book by Frank Kendall:
"Lethal Autonomy: The Future of Warfare Whether We Like It or Not" (Knox Press).
Purchase
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