The Institute for Security Studies has a new director. Finally…
(BRUXELLES2) Quite logically, it was Antonio Missiroli who was appointed director of the European Institute for Security Studies. The news was confirmed today by a statement from the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton. This institute, which emerged from the now defunct WEU (Western European Union), has its headquarters in Paris and was attached to the European Union in 2003. It was about time. The post of director had been vacant since the retirement of Álvaro de Vasconcelos. And the Institute was operating in a bit of weightlessness... Missirolli has the advantage of knowing the European security policy well, but also the European institutional environment. What can be a useful asset in this new function
Missirolli does not arrive in unfamiliar territory. He worked at the Institute as a researcher for 7 years (from 1998 to 2005) leading a number of studies devoted to European security policy (1). He was then Director of Studies at the European Policy Center in Brussels from 2005 to 2010. Then a member of BEPA, the internal think tank of the President of the European Commission, where he headed the unit until today. European dialogue".
Born in 1955, he holds a doctorate degree in contemporary history from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Pisa) and a master's degree in international public policy from the Graduate School of International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington. He worked as a journalist, correspondent for an Italian daily. But then returned to research and studies. He was thus director of European studies at the Centro Studi Politica Internazionale (Cespi) in Rome (1994-97) and visiting researcher at St. Antony's College in Oxford (1996-97). He has taught European politics at the University of Bath, European security at the University of Trento, transatlantic security at Boston University and, most recently, European foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University.
(1) Let us quote in particular like this one "Bigger EU, wider CGSP, stronger ESDP, the view from Central Europe" Download here
