Loïc Simonet • Personen • oiip

Dr. Loïc Simonet
Post-Doc Researcher

loic.simonet@oiip.ac.at

Loïc Simonet started his career at the French Defence Ministry in Paris. In 2008, he was appointed Politico-Military Counsellor of the French Permanent Representation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. In 2013, he joined the Secretariat of the OSCE as Senior External Co-operation Officer, until June 2021. In this capacity, he liaised with the European Union and NATO. In 2021, he joined the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (Oiip) as a Researcher.

His portfolio includes:

The European Security Architecture (actors, challenges and perspectives)
The OSCE
Conventional and Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament
‘Middle Powers’ and their influence on the world order
Africa and the Sahel region
Border Walls around the World

Simonet was an Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA) Fellow 2023-2024.

He teaches the theory and practice of International Organizations at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) in Vienna.

He is a first tenor at the Wiener Singverein and a passionate gardener and botanist.

Selected Publications

Security & Arms Control

2011. Trois ans après la suspension du Traité sur les forces conventionnelles en Europe par la Fédération de Russie : Retour sur les fondements juridiques d’un acte controversé. Revue générale de droit international public, CXV(1). 157-173.
2012. Vingt ans après la signature du traité Ciel ouvert, dix ans après son entrée en vigueur : succès et incertitudes d’un régime emblématique de l’après-Guerre froide. Sécurité globale, 18, Winter 2011-2012. 119-130. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-securite-globale-2011-4-page-119?lang=fr
Open Skies: successes and uncertainties of an iconic post-Cold War instrument. OSCE Magazine, 1. 18-21. https://www.osce.org/oscc/104038.
2012. The OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security after the First Annual Discussion on Its Implementation (11 July 2012): State of Play and Prospects. OSCE Yearbook 2012, 18. 343-360. https://ifsh.de/file-CORE/documents/yearbook/english/12/Simonet-en.pdf
2012. L’usage de la force dans le cyberspace et le droit international. Revue Défense Nationale, 751, June. 51-55. https://www.defnat.com/e-RDN/vue-article.php?carticle=10551
2012. L’usage de la force dans le cyberspace et le droit international. Annuaire Français de Droit International, LVIII. 117-143. https://www.persee.fr/doc/afdi_0066-3085_2012_num_58_1_4673
2014. The Arms Trade Treaty and the OSCE. Security and Human Rights, 25(4). 440-453. https://www.shrmonitor.org/assets/uploads/2022/06/The-Arms-Trade-Treaty-and-the-OSCE-Simonet.pdf
2015. Le Traité sur le commerce des armes. Paris: Pedone.- 220 p. https://pedone.info/740/TCA.html
2023. How to rebuild Europe’s security architecture?”, Oiip, Trend Report 6. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/how-to-rebuild-europes-security-architecture/
2023. Putin’s war in Ukraine: How to get out of it? Oiip, Trend Report 7. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/putins-war-in-ukraine-how-to-get-out-of-it/
2023. NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept. Analysis and implications for Austria. Working Paper 115. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/natos-2022-strategic-concept-analysis-and-implications-for-austria/
2023. The technical limits of the EU. Europe’s defense economy as a driving force for strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty. Oiip, Working Paper 117. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/the-technical-limits-of-the-eu-europes-defense-economy-as-a-driving-force-for-strategic-autonomy-and-technological-sovereignty/
2023. The third EU-NATO joint declaration (10 January 2023): Was it worth the delay? Oiip, Policy Analysis 3. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/the-third-eu-nato-joint-declaration-10-january-2023-was-it-worth-the-delay/
2023. Trapped in NATO antechamber, Kyiv eyes ‘military Marshall plan’. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/trapped-in-nato-antechamber-kyiv-eyes-military-marshall-plan-210086
2024. From “as long as it takes” to “as long as we can”: will the West abandon Ukraine? Oiip, Trend Report 6. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/from-as-long-as-it-takes-to-as-long-as-we-can-will-the-west-abandon-ukraine/

The OSCE (see also 1)

2014. The OSCE Mediterranean Partnership four years after the start of the ‘Arab Spring’. The OSCE Yearbook 2014, 20. 315-337. https://ifsh.de/file-CORE/documents/yearbook/english/14/Simonet-en_S.pdf
2016. With H.-G. Lüber. The OSCE and its Legal Status: Revisiting the Myth of Sysiphus. OSCE Yearbook 2016, 22. 277-314. https://ifsh.de/file/publication/OSCE_Yearbook_en/2016/SimonetLüber-en.pdf
2017. The OSCE and NATO: Side by Side in a Turbulent World. OSCE Yearbook 2017, 23. 279-313. https://ifsh.de/file/publication/OSCE_Yearbook_en/2017/Simonet-en.pdf
2019. Twenty years after the Istanbul Platform for Co-operative Security: How to strengthen the OSCE’s contribution to ‘effective multilateralism’ through its cooperation with other international and regional organizations. OSCE Yearbook 2019, 25. 249-271. https://ifsh.de/file/publication/OSCE_Yearbook_en/2019/Simonet.pdf
2022. L’exemple des organisations internationales : le rôle de l’OSCE. In: Trigeaud L. Droits de l’homme et droit international humanitaire : quelles conséquences sur les transferts d’armements conventionnels de guerre ? Paris: Pedone. 241-247. https://pedone.info/livre/droit-de-lhomme-et-droit-international-humanitaire-quelles-consequences-sur-les-transferts-darmements-conventionnels-de-guerre/
2022. Thirty years of politico-military acquis and contribution to transparency and confidence-building in the Euro-Atlantic region. Study for the 30th anniversary of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC). https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/thirty-years-of-politico-military-acquis-and-contribution-to-transparency-and-confidence-building-in-the-euro-atlantic-region/
2024. The OSCE in Zeitenwende: How to keep the Organization on the radar screen? Oiip, Trend Report 4. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/the-osce-in-zeitenwende-how-to-keep-the-organization-on-the-radar-screen/
2024. The UN Summit of the Future (September 2024): Which opportunities for the OSCE? Oiip, Working Paper. https://www.oiip.ac.at/publikation/the-un-summit-of-the-future-september-2024-which-opportunities-for-the-osce/

Oil and Gas Pipelines Law & Geopolitics

2005, with P. Laffont. La Charte de l’énergie et le transit des matières premières : trop loin ? Trop tôt ? Annuaire Français de Droit international, LI. 524-541. https://www.persee.fr/doc/afdi_0066-3085_2005_num_51_1_3896
2006. Pipelines in Geopolitics and in International Relations. Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 5(4). https://www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=2293
2006. L’impact du terrorisme sur la sécurité des pipelines internationaux. Défense nationale, March. 75-88. https://www.defnat.com/e-RDN/vue-article.php?carticle=3848
2006. L’oléoduc Bakou-Tbilissi-Ceyhan : les défis d’une canalisation stratégique. Revue française de géopolitique, 4. 79-88.
2006. Retour sur la rupture entre le Tchad et la Banque mondiale : ne nous trompons pas de responsable. Etudes internationales, XXXVII(4). 597-615. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ei/2006-v37-n4-ei1621/014631ar/#:~:text=La%20Banque%20mondiale%20n’a,beaucoup%20à%20la%20situation%20actuelle.
2007. Oléoducs et gazoducs chinois à l’aube du 21ème siècle : les vecteurs d’une diplomatie de l’énergie. Monde chinois, 9, Winter 2006-2007. 25-37.
2007. Les pipelines internationaux, vecteurs de prospérité, de puissance et de rivalités. Oléoducs et gazoducs dans la géopolitique et les relations internationales. La Revue Internationale et Stratégique, 65, Spring 2007. 51-62. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-internationale-et-strategique-2007-1-page-51?lang=fr
2007, with A.-C. Poirson. L’OTAN et l’ONU, nouveaux acteurs de la sécurité énergétique? Diplomatie, 28, Sept.-Oct. 2007. 47-52.
2009. L’OTAN et la protection des infrastructures énergétiques : jusqu’où engager l’Alliance ? La Revue internationale et stratégique, 72, Winter 2008/2009. 72-81. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-internationale-et-strategique-2008-4-page-73?lang=fr.
2009. Le gazoduc Nord Stream et la mer Baltique : le droit international au service de la protection d’un espace sensible. Annuaire du droit de la mer, XIII. 81-95.
2010. L’Europe et l’intégration des réseaux gaziers : vers la communauté de l’énergie. Revue des Affaires Européennes, 4. 821-830.
2011. Les pipelines dans la tourmente égyptienne. Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 9,(3). https://www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=3117.
2011. Nabucco dix ans après: Ambitions et fragilités d’un projet européen. Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 9(3). https://www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=3134
2011. The Chad-Cameroon Export Project and the Bakola Pygmies. Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 9(4). https://www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=3147
2011. Mise en service du gazoduc Nord Stream : Une nouvelle voie pour le gaz russe vers l’Europe. Revue de l’Energie, 603, Oct.- Nov. 2011. 309-313.
Looking for an Energy Community Through an International Legal Instrument: Mission Impossible? Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 10(3). https://www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=3271
2012. Les institutions paneuropéennes en matière d’énergie et les projets de gazoducs transeuropéens. In : Claude BLUMANN (Ed.). Vers une politique européenne de l’énergie, Bruxelles : Bruylant. 225-237. https://www.libeurop.eu/fr_FR/shop/product/9782802735908-vers-une-politique-europeenne-de-l-energie-588259
2013. Le Printemps arabe et la nouvelle donne de l’énergie. Géoéconomie, 66, Aug-Sept.-Oct. 2013. 189-206. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-geoeconomie-2013-3-page-189?lang=fr
2014. La crise du gaz de 2014 entre l’Ukraine et la Russie : beaucoup de bruit pour rien ? Géoéconomie, 71, Aug.-Sept.-Oct. 2014. 95-118. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-geoeconomie-2014-4-page-95?lang=fr
2015. Les hydrocarbures du Kurdistan irakien, au cœur de l’imbroglio régional. Géoéconomie, 74, March-April 2015. 151-168. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-geoeconomie-2015-2-page-151?lang=fr
2017. Les hydrocarbures de l’Arctique : Eldorado ou chimère ? Géoéconomie, 82, April. 75-98. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-geoeconomie-2016-5-page-73?lang=fr
2021. Les pipelines et le droit international. Revue de l’Energie, 656, May-June. 13-17. https://www.larevuedelenergie.com/les-pipelines-et-le-droit-international/
2021. Les pipelines en droit international et dans les relations internationales. Paris: Pedone.- 359 p. https://pedone.info/livre/les-pipelines-en-droit-international-et-dans-les-relations-internationales/
2021. L’affaire Nord Stream 2 laissera de profondes rancœurs à l’heure où l’UE et l’OTAN se penchent sur leur stratégie. Le Monde, 14 Sept. 2021. 29. https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/09/13/l-affaire-nord-stream-2-laissera-de-profondes-ranc-urs-a-l-heure-ou-l-ue-et-l-otan-se-penchent-sur-leur-positionnement-strategique_6094439_3232.html

Security & Arms Control

The OSCE (see also 1)

Oil and Gas Pipelines Law & Geopolitics

Other topics