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

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...

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

Feminist foreign policy (FFP) faces increasing pressure amid rising anti-gender mobilisation, raising questions about its relevance in times of geopolitical conflict. Yet, despite structural simila...

This article examines what the European Commission’s 2025 proposal for an intelligence cell reveals about the trajectory and limits of EU intelligence cooperation. The proposal is situated within a...

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...

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

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...

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...

Volume 35, Issue 2 of European Security

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...

Amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, immersive media have emerged as a new instrument of strategic communication. This article examines how Ukrainian state-affiliated and civil-society act...

This paper examines whether UK naval power, designed to depend on US support, can meet doctrinal requirements if that support is withdrawn. Using an open-source, scenario-based audit, it maps depen...

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 Nordic states have long made distinct choices regarding foreign and security policy principles. However, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we are witnessing a convergence of the Nordic countr...

In the wake of the new security situation in Europe, Sweden has decided to apply for membership in NATO. After over 200 years without war, the country must now be set to defend not just itself, but...

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...

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 European Commission (EC) seeks to position the EU as a global leader in the energy transition by enhancing its geopolitical influence and reducing its dependence on fossil fuels. This paper ana...

After joining the EU and NATO, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe transitioned to professional armed forces. They anticipated membership benefits without making adequate defence contributi...

For decades, European Union (EU) Member States have promoted openness and collaboration in science. However, amidst a changing geopolitical world order, they increasingly view international researc...