As Europe ramps up its defence spending and public concern about security rises, a crucial part of the debate remains under-examined: how peace movement organisations (PMOs) position themselves in ...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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In this article, we develop a conceptualisation of the relationship between European institutions, governments and defence industries as a European Iron Network. This network is characterized by a ...

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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 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 ...