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...

The material-discursive conceptualisation of

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 discusses the key patterns of Belarusian foreign policy, identifying causes and explaining patterns of its transformation, particularly after the outbreak of the Belarusian crisis (202...

This article examines how Armenia and Georgia, two small states navigating the contested geopolitics of the South Caucasus, are devising distinct geostrategies in response to their condition of “in...

Positioned at the intersection of geopolitical tensions, Moldova has grappled with the intricacies and uncertainties of a great power rivalry between Russia and the European Union. Under the leader...

Adopting a lens of geopolitical and geostrategic “inbetweenness”, this article examines the evolution of Ukraine's foreign and security policy in 1991–2025, thereby considering the “shadow” of evol...

Conventional wisdom has it that the “in-between” countries, especially those located between the rivalling great(er) powers, find themselves “between a rock and a hard place”, which neatly reflects...

There has been a growing competition between Russia and the European Union (EU) in their common neighbourhood over the past decade, culminating in direct conflict following Russia's invasion of Ukr...

This article analyses the evolution of Spain’s defence planning between the democratic transition and the institutionalisation of capability-based planning (CBP) in 2005. It argues that, even as Sp...

Perks and Perils of Geostrategic In-Betweenness: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from within the EU-Russia (Un)Common Neighbourhood. Volume 34, Issue 4 of European Security

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...

This paper investigates how key geopolitical junctures the Second Karabakh War and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine have (re)shaped Azerbaijan's relations with the European Union, particularly ...

Research on the nature, ways and effects of EU-Russia competition in their “common neighbourhood” has proliferated over the past two decades, although little attention has been paid so far to analy...

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...

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...

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 ...

Analysing the making of the EU's foreign and defence policy generally involves identifying European constraints that reconfigure the calculations, aims and practices of the member states and their ...

Theoretical frameworks on strategic narratives and framing illuminate how political actors construct and disseminate narratives to shape public perceptions and legitimize their actions. In the case...

This article explores the factors influencing NATO’s level of engagement with partner countries, arguing that the alliance prioritises ties with states that demonstrate increased potential for subs...

The professional transnationalisation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) militaries has been a pivotal factor in their integration into the Euro-Atlantic security community. This article examine...

Movements based on conspiracy theories and a fundamental rejection of liberal values are on the rise in traditionally democratic societies and those with authoritarian legacies. This article develo...

European strategic autonomy has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, but the discussion has largely been Euro-centric and overlooked the American perspective. This paper addresses t...

This article assesses the limitations of European Union (EU) documents regarding the sociological aspects of civil–military relations. Although these documents aim to improve the relationship betwe...

Volume 34, Issue 3 of European Security

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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 paper seeks to explore how past experiences impact the credibility of external states and change their public statements regarding other civil conflicts. While existing research on third-party...

Since 2015, the European Commission has sought to highlight the EU’s promise of protection by introducing the idea of a “Security Union”. This article examines how officials and bureaucrats within ...

The paper outlines the most likely scenarios of the future European security architecture based on an analysis of several drivers, such as Russia’s leadership’s perception of Ukraine, the mindset o...

The system of alliances is the only element of US power that China is unable and unwilling to surpass in the foreseeable future. However, in the past decade, China’s rise has posed a challenge to t...

The relationship between the European Union (EU) and Russia in the past 30 years has been complex, encompassing periods of hope, optimism and cooperation but also elements of competition, conflict ...

Increasingly, misinformation is a pressing security problem. Different types of counter-disinformation strategies have been proposed and tested in a growing number of studies. The findings from the...

The EU views malign information influence (MII) as a threat, and this has been enhanced with the Russian invasion of Ukraine resulting in a ban on several Russian media. This article adds to resear...

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