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Luis Simón joined the IES as postdoctoral researcher for European Foreign and Security Policy in October 2010. At the IES, he is a member of the research cluster 'EU foreign and security policy' and also coordinates the University of Southern California (USC) Brussels Program 'Contemporary Issues in European Foreign and Security Policy'.

Current research projects include geopolitics, grand strategy and contemporary Europe; strategy and the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy; and the impact of the rise of Asia upon Europe.

Other research interests include the role of the EU as a global actor, the security and defence policies of Britain, France and Germany and transatlantic relations.

Luis Simón holds a PhD from Royal Holloway College (University of London) and a Masters degree from the Institutes d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (2009-2010), the EU Institute for Security Studies (2009), the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University (2008), the European Policy Centre (2008) and the Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (2008). In 2008/09 Luis Simón was a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Program of the VolkswagenStiftung, Germany, the Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin and the Rijksbanken Jubilaeumsfond, Stockholm.

- Luis Simón and James Rogers, British Geostrategy for a European Age. RUSI Journal. April 2011, Vol 156, No2, pp. 52-58.

- Luis Simón and James Rogers, The Crisis in Libya: Spanish and European Options. OPEX Memorandum No. 155/2011

- Luis Simón and Alexander Mattelaer, EUnity of Command: The Planning and Conduct of CSDP Operations, EGMONT Paper Nº 41, January 2011.

- Luis Simón and James Rogers, The New Franco-British Entente and European Defence: Implications for Spain, OPEX Memorandum No. 151/2010.

- Luis Simón and James Rogers. The Return of European Geopolitics? All roads run through London. RUSI Journal. June 2010, Vol 155, No 3, pp 57-63

- Luis Simón. National grand strategy, ESDP and NATO, in Galbreath, D.J. and Gebhard, C. (eds), Co-operation or Conflict? Problematizing organizational overlap in Europe, Asghate (2010)

- Luis Simón (ed.). European Defence Capabilities: No Adaptability without Co-operation. Occasional Paper Royal United Services Institute (March 2010), 28 pages

- Luis Simón. The Spanish Presidency and CSDP: Time to get serious about the Union´s Military Planning and Conduct capability. Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano, 33/2010, 9 pages

- Luis Simón. The Politics of EU Military Planning and Conduct, CFSP Forum, Vol 8:2 (March 2010), pp 14-19. (CFSP Forum is a by-monthly newsletter of commentary and analysis of EU foreign policy funded by the European Commission)

- Luis Simón. Command and Control? Planning for EU Military Operations, Occasional Paper nº 81, EU Institute for Security Studies (January 2010), 48 pages

- Luis Simón. France’s renewed Atlanticism, Regional Leaders in the Global Security Arena: Interests, Strategies and Capabilities (Berlin: Deutsche Gesselshaft für Auswartäge Politik, 2009).

- Luis Simón. Sarkozy’s dilemmas, the forthcoming French EU Presidency and ESDP? What’s in it for Europe?, Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano 76/2008

- James Rogers and Luis Simón. The status and location of the military installations of the Member States of the European Union and their potential role for the European Security and Defence Policy. Policy Brief to the European Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Security and Defence ( February 2009)

- James Rogers and Luis Simón, Evidence to the House of Lords European Union Committeee on the European Security Strategy, 1st July 2008 (http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/C271%20NavarroRogers%20010708.pdf)