Dylan Macchiarini Crosson is a Researcher in the EU Foreign Policy Unit at CEPS. His main expertise relates to the areas of EU foreign, security, and defence policies, transatlantic relations, and EU institutional and political dynamics in these areas.

He is specialised in matters of EU security and defence in particular, with deep expertise on the positions and policies of the EU and EU member states, EU-NATO and EU-US security and defence relations, and the EU’s security and defence institutional set-up and political dynamics, as illustrated by several publications on these subjects. He has also worked in depth on EU defence technological and industrial base dynamics including capabilities development, procurement, industrial fragmentation, funding instruments, and arms transfers.

Dylan’s research portfolio and engagement with stakeholders also focuses on the way the EU navigates the return of multipolar competition and balances against hostile actors such as China and Russia, the EU’s support for and contribution to global governance and multilateral institutions, and the EU’s approach to preventing conflict and violent extremism.