Giovanni GREVI

Course offered: EU Foreign Policy : Context and Priorities (30h)

Dr Giovanni Grevi is a senior fellow with the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. Before joining the EPC, he was the director of the Foundation for International Relations and External Dialogue (FRIDE). Previously, Giovanni served as a senior research fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and worked at the EPC as associate director of studies. He is currently a visiting lecturer at the College of Europe, Bruges, and at Sciences Po, Paris. He has been working and publishing extensively on EU foreign and security policy, strategic affairs, global governance, US foreign policy, foresight and EU politics. Giovanni holds an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in International Relations from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Current position: Senior Fellow, European Policy Centre

Previous professional affiliations:

• FRIDE, director
• EU Institute for Security Studies, senior research fellow
• EPC, associate director of studies

Education:

• PhD, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science
• International Law Degree, University of Pavia

Other professional activities: Visiting Lecturer, Sciences Po, Paris

Research interests: EU foreign and security policy, strategic affairs, global governance, US foreign policy, foresight and EU politics

Recent publications:

• ‘What Grand Strategy for Europe? Three Competing Visions and One Proposal’, CSDS In-depth 10/2024, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance, February 2024.
• ‘Forging Europe's leadership. Global trends, Russian aggression and the risk of a regressive world’, Book, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, October 2023. (ed.)
• ‘Shockwaves: How does the war in Ukraine impact the EU's grand strategy?’, CSDS In-depth 5/2023, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance, March 2023.
• ‘Facing war: Rethinking Europe's security and defence’, ISPI, November 2022. (ed. with Serena Giusti)
• ‘Europe’s strategic autonomy and the partnership approach’ in G. Mueller-Brandeck-Bocquet, P. Gieg, T. Lowinger, M. Pietzko and A. Zuern (eds.) EU-India Relations – The Strategic Partnership in the light of the EU Global Strategy, Springer, 2021.
• ‘Fostering Europe’s strategic autonomy – A question of purpose and action’, EPC and KAS Policy paper, December 2020.
• ‘Fostering Europe’s strategic autonomy – Security and defence policy: time to deliver’, EPC and KAS Policy Paper, October 2020. (with Paul Ivan)
• ‘Differentiated Cooperation in European Foreign Policy: The Challenge of Coherence’, EU IDEA Policy Paper No.5, August 2020. (with Pol Morillas, Eduard Soler i Lecha, Marco Zeiss)
• ‘Strategic Autonomy for European choices: The key to Europe’s shaping power’, EPC Discussion paper, July 2019.
• ‘Lost in Transition? US foreign policy from Obama to Trump’, EPC Discussion Paper, December 2016
• ‘A Global Strategy for a soul-searching European Union’, EPC Discussion Paper, July 2016
• ‘The Atlantic Basin: an eclectic but convergent region?’, FRIDE Working paper, May 2015.
• ‘Challenges for European Foreign Policy 2015: How others deal with disorder’, FRIDE Book, January 2015 (co-edited with Daniel Keohane).
• ‘Challenges for European Foreign Policy in 2014: The EU’s extended neighbourhood’, FRIDE Book, January 2014 (co-edited with Daniel Keohane).
• ‘Empowering Europe’s Future: Governance, Power and Options for the EU in a Changing World’, Chatham House and FRIDE report for the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), December 2013 (with Daniel Keohane, Bernice Lee and Patricia Lewis).
• ‘Challenges for European Foreign Policy in 2013: Renewing the EU’s role in the world’, FRIDE Book, January 2013 (co-edited with Daniel Keohane)