Christian Küsters's research while affiliated with Aarhus University and other places

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In recent years, dozens of drone development projects have attracted hundreds of millions of euros from EU public research funds with little accountability and scarce political oversight. This article relates the ongoing exponential growth of the drone industry in Europe with the vast amounts of EU public research funding channelled to drone resear...
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The European Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has often been a paper tiger lacking the required tools to translate the EU’s goals and objectives into action on the ground. At the core of this problem is an enduring expectations–capabilities gap rooted in the meagre results of joint military capability development of CSDP member states. Man...

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... Portugal has followed the same trend, and Portuguese companies, universities, and government agencies are frequent participants in consortia that receive funding from EU framework programmes to develop security technologies. The logic be-hind promoting this type of cooperation materializes the triple helix model of innovation (Leydesdorff and Etzkowitz, 1998), referring to the interactions between academia, in-dustry, and government, designed to foster economic and social development (Martins and Küsters, 2019). In the specific case of the Portuguese defence industries, Simões, Moreira, and Dias (2020) analysed 145 projects of the Portuguese Ministry of Defence and concluded the following: that academia was represented in over 90 per cent of the projects, and 40 per cent of those have a dual-use application; that there is a predominance of knowledge pro-duction, dissemination, and application, for which the university's institutional sphere is es-sential; and that the triple helix system evolves into a network of relationships that involve projects with both civil and military applications (Simões, Moreira, and Dias, 2020). ...
... So maintaining and building upon the existing transatlantic relationship in times of resource scarcity is an active challenge. Third and importantly, the EU currently aspires to do more in the security domain as a means to broaden and deepen EU integration (Küsters, 2018). Belgian diplomacy and the Belgian Defence fully subscribe to the EU's Global Strategy (2016) and objectives. ...