Joris Teer

Joris Teer is the Research Analyst leading the portfolio on Economic Security and Technology at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). On behalf of EUISS, he is a Senior Advisor to the Chips Diplomacy Support Initiative (CHIPDIPLO), an 18-month project aiming to help structure Europe’s semiconductor foreign policy through research, think-tank-industry dialogues, and other activities. CHIPDIPLO is executed by four European thinktanks and co-funded by the European Union. Prior to joining EUISS, Joris was a China and strategic foresight analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), focusing on the dilemmas of deep economic interdependence at a time of great power rivalry.

Joris co-initiated HCSS Boardroom, an initiative to make the strategies of industry and investors more geopolitically shock-resistant. He has published on Europe’s place in China-US competition, peace and security in East Asia (in particular the risk and costs of a Taiwan-conflict), and the geopolitics of critical raw materials, semiconductors, and other critical industries in international publications (e.g., Politico Europe, and The Diplomat). He has led-authored research reports on these topics for the Dutch Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, and Economic Affairs, the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, and the European Union. He was also the Project Coordinator of the HCSS Europe in the Indo-Pacific Hub. Finally, Joris was a member of the Peace and Security Committee (CVV) of the Advisory Council on International Affairs of the Netherlands.

Joris holds a Dual M.Sc. Degree in International Affairs focusing on China’s politics and foreign policy at Peking University and on the international relations of the Middle East, crisis-decision making, and political Islam at the London School of Economics. He holds an honours BA from Amsterdam University College. Joris is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Free University of Brussels, focusing on the implications for the EU of the growing use by China and the US of weaponized interdependence strategies.

Recent publications:

• Beyond Trump: Xi’s price wars and weaponisation of critical raw materials threaten European prosperity (2025)
• Semiconductors: European views on four 2029 tech transfer regime scenarios (2025)
• When stars align: Leveraging European defence budgets to drive a dual-use tech boom, w/ G Spatafora (2025)
• European Ministers of Defence: Save Europe, invest in mining! (2025)
• Caught in the US-China crossfire: To protect itself, Europe must call a critical raw material emergency (2025)
• To survive Moscow, Beijing, and Washington’s economic onslaught, Europe must reindustrialise (2025)
• Starting with the end in mind: Fully de-risked gallium, germanium, and rare earth value chains by 2030, w/ J Seaman (2025)
• Economic security standards can address the EU’s and Washington’s concerns about China, w/ T Ruhlig (2025)
• Preventing war in East Asia: A European action plan to strengthen deterrence (2024)
• The cost of conflict: Economic implications of a Taiwan military crisis for the Netherlands and the EU, w/ DH Elisson & A de Ruijter (2024)
• The EU’s China challenge: Rethinking offshore wind and electrolysis strategy, w/ TNO and Abe de Ruijter (2024)
• Navigating the great game of chokepoints, w/ A de Ruijter & M Rademaker (2024)
• Action on critical minerals is needed now, in Politico Europe w/ C Miller (2023)
• Reaching breaking point: The semiconductor and critical raw material ecosystem at a time of great power rivalry, w/ M Bertolini (2022)