Luis Simón

Senior Associate (Non-resident), Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program
Luis Simón

Luis Simón is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Hes also director of the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) School of Governance and the Brussels office of the Elcano Royal Institute. He received his PhD from the University of London and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (Columbia University). Luis specializes in international security, great power competition, and transatlantic relations. He has recently won a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to examine the impact of U.S.-China competition on Europe.

 

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NATO and the South after Ukraine

While the alliance is adapting to the immediate threat posed by Russia, NATO should not neglect its southern neighborhood which remains fraught with growing vulnerabilities and is not impervious to the broader strategic competition with Moscow and Beijing.

Brief by Luis Simón and Pierre Morcos — May 9, 2022

Ukraine and the Balance of Power: An Inter-theater Perspective

The loss of Ukraine would require a much more sustained NATO effort to provide deterrence in Europe’s eastern flank, eating more significantly into Washington’s strategic bandwidth, otherwise needed to adequately resource a military rebalance to Asia.

Commentary by Luis Simón — January 31, 2022