The war that redefined cyber war: Russia, Ukraine and the gap between theory and practice

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 ...

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The Nordic States and the Arctic: contextually induced role change in a new geopolitical context

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...

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Metrics of morality: reconciling technocratic governance and affective authority in peacekeeping training

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

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Ordering EU internal security: Information sharing, code tables, and epistemic stabilisation

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...

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Governing knowledge, shaping Europe: research security in the EU’s geopolitical turn

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...

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Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine

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

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European Security

Volume 35, Issue 2 of European Security

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The EU civil protection mechanism in the 2024 Spanish floods: Europeanisation and multi-level governance in practice

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...

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Russia’s low-level agents: characteristics, roles and organisational structure of covert operatives in Europe, 2022–2025

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 ...

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Behind closed doors: reassessing European participation in the Kosovo intervention through the case of Denmark

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...

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European liberal policies towards Syrian refugees: providing dignity as well as security?

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...

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Hold the line: European adaptation(s) in a competitive conflict management and resolution market

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...

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The EU’s fragmented defence governance: different rationales, different logics and different actors

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 ...

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Why does European aid to Ukraine vary? A nested analysis of domestic and international drivers

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...

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Conceptualising total defence: inter-organisational structures in a comparative perspective

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...

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Guardian of culture: the European Union’s quest for actorness in the protection of cultural heritage in conflicts and crises

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...

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EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?

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...

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Preference convergence, functional pressure and supranational entrepreneurship: explaining the launch and design of the EU’s military assistance mission to Ukraine

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...

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Has World War III started? Geopolitical preferences, conspiratorial thinking and individual threat perceptions of a global conflict in Slovakia

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...

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The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity

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...

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The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression

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...

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Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries

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 ...

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Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?

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 ...

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Navigating the storm: the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on EU’s quest for strategic autonomy

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...

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European Security

Volume 35, Issue 1 of European Security

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Guardians of trust: foreign election interference and the institutional logics of democratic resilience among Swedish county governors

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...

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