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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Dans le cadre de la série d’été de @letemps.ch « Mon Europe à moi », je me suis prêté au jeu d’une interview sur mon parcours, l’Europe et ma recherche.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It has been a pleasure to attend yet another successful edition (the 7th!) of the ‘Making Sanctions Work’ executive training of @eui-stg.bsky.social , this time in the capacity of scientific coordinator and speaker. We will be coming back next year for the 8th edition !

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My comments yesterday for the Swiss TV on the listing of former Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud on the EU sanctions regime on 🇷🇺 hybrid threats (in French). Interview de Jan Lepeu (vidéo), Forum - www.rts.ch/play/tv/redi...

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Jacques Baud, l'ex-agent suisse du renseignement, peut à nouveau accéder à ses comptes: interview de Jan Lepeu (vidéo) - Forum - Play RTS

Interview de Jan Lepeu, chercheur à l'institut universitaire européen de Florence, spécialiste des sanctions internationales et de la politique étrangère de l'UE.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Warm thank you to the editors @drclaraportela.bsky.social , Andrea Charron and @mirkosossai.bsky.social for making it happen and stirring the process expertly

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Publication alert 🚨 : I'm glad to see that the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions is now available. I have been entrusted with the contribution on the European Union as a Sanctions Taker 🇪🇺. ➡️European Union doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is the crowing achievement of almost 5 years of research on history of EU sanctions under the supervision of Jeff Checkel and @stephofmann.bsky.social. A massive thank you as well to the two other jury members @drclaraportela.bsky.social and Niklas Bremberg.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I had the privilege this week of being awarded the title of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences from the @eui-eu.bsky.social after successfully defending my thesis on the EU sanctions policy.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I had the pleasure to appear in Jan Dunin-Wasowicz's podcast to discuss the past, present, and future of EU sanctions. Among other things: how the Russia sanctions differ from previous sanctions, where do EU sanctions come from, and how they have evolved over time. open.spotify.com/episode/681O...

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Episode 03 | April 2025 | Renewed EU-US Convergence? | Jan Lepeu on the History of EU Sanctions

This Month in EU Sanctions · Episode

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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Episode 03 | April 2025 | Renewed EU-US Convergence? | Jan Lepeu on the History of EU Sanctions

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Stephanie Hofmann @stephofmann.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How to organize European security? In this International Politics forum, we discuss European actors' choices between orchestrating existing and new institutional layers (compartmentalized multilateralism) or escaping consensus-making with new&old layers @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🚨 New Year, New Publication: For the upcoming International Politics Forum on the (re-)organising of European Security following the 🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦, I wrote this article focusing on the sanctions pillar of the 🇪🇺 response to the full-scale invasion. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy - International Politics

The February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine constituted a shock to the European Security ecosystem, catapulting it into a new geopolitical era and potentially redistributing the cards of who, how...

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Big thank you to @stephofmann.bsky.social for organising the Forum, as well as to the editors of International Politics and the two very helpful anonymous reviewers. Keep an eye out for the Forum, lots of very interesting contributions in there on the futur of European Security 👀

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It's all very 'inside baseball' on how 🇪🇺 foreign policy is done. But ultimately it's about power, about who gets to organise Europe's foreign and security policy and to what aim. www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

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EU capitals fume at ‘Queen’ von der Leyen

Diplomats accuse European Commission president of overreach amid a furor over her trip to Israel.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Big Q moving forward is wether it was : (i) an exceptional reaction to an exceptional challenge (ii) the latest iteration of a double trend of the de-targetization of EU sanctions and the increasing role of the Commission in EU foreign policy.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Or more bluntly put: the post Feb2022 de-targetization of EU's 🇷🇺 sanctions empowered the European Commission and its presidency, at the expense of the EEAS, the Council, and thus the Member States. Quite the departure from both existing practices and the spirit of the 🇪🇺Treaties.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The gist of my argument is that the 🇪🇺 turned this time to much more comprehensive forms of sanctioning (vs the very targeted sanctions we see in most EU sanctions regimes), and in doing so it changed the 🇪🇺sanctions-making processes, and crucially who's in control.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The Forum investigates how the full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed the 'who', 'what' and 'in what way' of the European security architecture. My contribution looks more specifically at how the invasion of 🇺🇦 affected sanctions-making processes inside the 🇪🇺.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy - International Politics

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Thanks, would love to be included

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

One of the reason we spend little on defense compare to the rest of the world is that whereas US/RUS/CHN defense spending is spent in the country (and partly on blue collar jobs), European 💶 often goes abroad. Thus, most EU Defence spending is targeted towards collaborative projects across MS.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I think an important argument for EU spending on defense a bit overlooked here is: consolidate and integrate the European Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Rightly or wrongly, EU defense spending is thought to try to tackle the fragmentation and bad inventive structure of European defense spending.

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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Mon intervention hier sur la RTS au sujet du Conseil européen et de la possibilité d’utiliser les revenus des avoirs gelés de la banque centrale russe pour financer l’aide militaire à l’Ukraine. Sommet de l'Union européenne sur l'Ukraine: interview de Yann Lepeu, Forum - www.rts.ch/play/tv/redi...

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Forum - Sommet de l'Union européenne sur l'Ukraine: interview de Yann Lepeu - Play RTS

Interview de Yann Lepeu, chercheur de l'Institut universitaire européen de Florence.

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