Dr Daniel Fiott, a visiting lecturer at BSIS, has just published a new book with Routledge on defence industrial cooperation in the European Union. The book argues that national economic preferences are only part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence industrial policy at the EU level. The book shows how the EU’s institutional framework and corpus of law are used by governments to reaffirm their position as the ultimate arbiter and promoter of economic interests in the defence industrial sector. To this end, the work asks why and how EU member state governments, European defence firms, and EU institutions developed EU-level defence industrial policy between 2003 and 2009. It does this by focusing on the establishment of the European Defence Agency and two EU Directives on equipment transfers and defence procurement.
Dr Daniel Fiott publishes new book
