Amid the erosion of security guarantees under the second Trump administration, Europe once again faces mounting pressure to assume greater responsibility for its defence. This echoes Charles de Gau...

The rapid expansion of European Union (EU) defence policy has made defence industry actors increasingly important in EU policymaking. However, we still know little about the conditions shaping thei...

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The ongoing crisis of the liberal international order, exacerbated by the United States’ retreat from its traditional guarantor role, forces the European Union (EU) to adjust to a shifting global l...

This article investigates how Europe’s post-2022 rearmament is reshaping the role of emerging and disruptive technologies through a high-risk/high-gain logic that increasingly blurs civilian–milita...

Since the mid-2010s, and especially following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has adopted a markedly more interventionist posture across a range of economic and industrial sectors. Int...

This article analyses how questions about European defence production efforts have been institutionalised at the European Union level, and it does so by drawing on the academic literature on the in...

The war in Ukraine has underlined the necessity to implement a defence industrial strategy as a means to be ready and support armed forces in case of war. However, such a policy requires managing s...

Against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, which has exposed shortages in ammunition and capabilities and brought defence back to the heart of the European agenda, this article has exami...

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This article presents the first pan-European longitudinal analysis of how news media frames the role of defence industries as a reflection of the (re)conceptualisation of their role in European rea...

Europe is rearming. A process that has laid dormant for the better part of three decades – within export oriented national policy and market-regulating European Union (EU) agency – has been jump st...

Arming Europe – reconceptualising European defence production. Volume 35, Issue 3 of European Security

This article examines the Russia-Ukraine war as an empirical stress test for dominant theoretical assumptions about cyber warfare. Drawing on a quantitative analysis of cyber incidents reported by ...

This article investigates how the small liberal Nordic states – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – have adapted their foreign and security policy roles in the Arctic in response to a ra...

This paper examines the role of knowledge-based expert institutions – specifically, international peacekeeping training centres – in shaping security governance through the production and diffusion...

This paper examines how EU internal security cooperation is sustained through the everyday maintenance of the Schengen Information System's (SIS) code tables, the classificatory system that enables...

This article examines how the European Union’s turn towards research and knowledge security reflects a transformation in its geopolitical identity. Moving beyond the language of “technological sove...

International security dynamics are increasingly studied within the analytical framework of strategic narratives. We offer a methodological contribution towards analysing the rhetorical mechanisms ...

Volume 35, Issue 2 of European Security

This article examines the activation of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) during the 2024 floods in Spain, situating its operations within the framework of Europeanisation and mu...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin has increasingly supported its battlefield operations with covert actions against Kyiv’s European supporters. Executing many such ...

The participation in military coalitions in the post-Cold War era has sparked an intense debate among realist bandwagon theory and liberal theories about the motivational drivers behind coalition p...

This article contributes to the literature on European policies on refugees and on the EU as a liberal actor. I use the normative literature on migration and refugees and international law, to asse...

Conflict management and resolution (CM-R) has evolved significantly with the growing influence of authoritarian actors. While the existing literature highlights how alternative actors contest the l...

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European Union’s (EU) role in defence is receiving growing political and scholarly attention. The EU has responded to the war with a plethora ...

What explains variation in burden-sharing during international conflicts? We analyse the crucial case study of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022 to test military burdensharing t...

The past decade has seen the resurgence “total defence” across Nordic and other European states. This whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to national security involves civilian, milit...

The protection of cultural heritage has become a crucial element of international peace and security, with “cultural peacekeeping” emerging as an important task in peace operations. The European Un...

Through the GAR-SI Sahel project, the European Union (EU) seeks to strengthen the operational capabilities of some Sahelian states, to allow them to gain effective control of their territory, throu...

In October 2022, the EU established a military assistance mission in support to Ukrainian armed forces (EUMAM Ukraine). The decision to launch the mission runs contrary to what one would intuitivel...

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the resulting instability has led to increased public perceptions of the threat of the conflict escalating into a global war. While existing research links th...

The article examines the Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine during the early months of the invasion, drawing on the literature on state security identity. I...

This article sheds light on the foreign policy behaviour of the European Parliament, which is traditionally considered to have a “quite limited” role in this policy domain. It aims to fill a theore...

In the White Paper for European Defence – Readiness 2030, the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) has a central role in the renewed impetus towards a European defence pillar ...

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has significantly worsened the European security outlook. Simultaneously, concerns are growing over the United States’ willingness to commit substantial forces ...

This article investigates how the Russia–Ukraine war has reshaped the European Union's defence priorities and its pursuit of strategic autonomy. Using advanced text analytics and machine learning m...

Volume 35, Issue 1 of European Security

Democratic resilience has emerged as a central theme in academic debates in response to growing threats to contemporary democracies, yet little attention has been paid to resilience capacity to ext...

This article examines how European Union (EU) institutions discursively construct EUropean agency in their social media communication on the war in Ukraine, interrogating the legitimising strategie...

The SI has sought to cast an “inside-out” perspective on the much-studied competition between the EU and Russia over their shared neighbourhood in the Eastern Europe and Southern Caucasus (EE&SC) r...