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New article: The war that redefined cyber war: Russia, Ukraine and the gap between theory and practice by Manuel R. Torres-Soriano: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: The Nordic States and the Arctic: contextually induced role change in a new geopolitical context by Douglas Brommesson, Ann-Marie Ekengren and Anna Michalski: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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📣 To all the participants in the @sgeu.org conference in Catania next week: our two Associate Editors, @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social and @mariannalovato.bsky.social will be in attendance! So if you have questions about our Journal, please be sure to reach out (this goes out especially to ECRs)! 😊
New article: Metrics of morality: reconciling technocratic governance and affective authority in peacekeeping training by Silvia Peirolo: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New article out now on Russia's strategic narratives about its war against Ukraine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @europeansecurity.bsky.social
New OA article: Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine by @stenhansson.bsky.social @andreasventsel.bsky.social and Mari-Liis Madisson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: Governing knowledge, shaping Europe: research security in the EU’s geopolitical turn by Cristina Pinna: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: Ordering EU internal security: Information sharing, code tables, and epistemic stabilisation by @matthiasleese.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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At #BISA2026 in Brighton this week? Got any queries about publishing in @europeansecurity.bsky.social? Two of our editors @laurachappell.bsky.social & @jocelynmawdsley.eurosky.social will be there & happy to answer questions.
At #BISA2026 in Brighton this week? Got any queries about publishing in @europeansecurity.bsky.social? Two of our editors @laurachappell.bsky.social & @jocelynmawdsley.eurosky.social will be there & happy to answer questions.
Assessing the extent to which European policies towards Syrian refugees since 2011 can be considered liberal ⤵️ @catherinegegout.eurosky.social writes for @europeansecurity.bsky.social
European Security@europeansecurity.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew article: European liberal policies towards Syrian refugees: providing dignity as well as security? by @catherinegegout.eurosky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 New Issue out! With articles on wartime solidarity in Europe, the effect of international politics on EU foreign policy, NATO/EU synergies on information warfare and much more Access and share below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...
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Volume 35, Issue 2 of European Security
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📢 New Issue out! With articles on wartime solidarity in Europe, the effect of international politics on EU foreign policy, NATO/EU synergies on information warfare and much more Access and share below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...
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Volume 35, Issue 2 of European Security
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New OA article: The EU civil protection mechanism in the 2024 Spanish floods: Europeanisation and multi-level governance in practice by Hasan Ogredik: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: Russia’s low-level agents: characteristics, roles and organisational structure of covert operatives in Europe, 2022–2025 by @bartschuurman.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: Behind closed doors: reassessing European participation in the Kosovo intervention through the case of Denmark by Mikkel Runge Olesen and Rasmus Brun Pedersen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New article: European liberal policies towards Syrian refugees: providing dignity as well as security? by @catherinegegout.eurosky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: Virtual reality as strategic communication: cultural defence in wartime Ukraine by @cbjola.bsky.social & Francesca Liberatore Vaselli: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Virtual reality as strategic communication: cultural defence in wartime Ukraine
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...
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New OA article: Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment by Jack Bonner and @djgalbreath.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment
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...
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New article: Hold the line: European adaptation(s) in a competitive conflict management and resolution market by Irene Constantini, @giuliolevorato.bsky.social & Ruth Hanau Santini: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New article: The EU’s fragmented defence governance: different rationales, different logics and different actors by Tuomas Iso-Markku & @nhelwig.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New OA article: Digital sovereignty and the means to European digital security: identification of the goals related to digital sovereignty from legal texts published by the European Union by Siraj Anand et al: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New OA article: Why does European aid to Ukraine vary? A nested analysis of domestic and international drivers by Lotte van den Boom & @ztruchlewski.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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Once distinct in foreign policy, are the Nordics now converging amid Russia's threats? This analysis by Brommesson, Ekengren & Michalski traces how heightened risks reformulated their roles, driving unified security choices from 2014–2023. @europeansecurity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0966...
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–2023
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...
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Why the surge in Swedish defence willingness upon NATO entry? This article by Persson & Widmalm explains the paradigm shift, from non-alignment to alliance solidarity, amid Baltic security redraws. @europeansecurity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0966...
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes
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...
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New article: Conceptualising total defence: inter-organisational structures in a comparative perspective by Anne Roelsgaard Obling, Joakim Berndtsson & Åse Gilje Østensen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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A recent paper in which I explore what the public thinks about WWIII has been published in an issue of @europeansecurity.bsky.social If you want to find out who thinks that WWIII has started or will start soon, and what might influence these views, please let me know. I still have some free copies.
European Security@europeansecurity.bsky.social · 6mo ago35(1) Has World War III started? Geopolitical preferences, conspiratorial thinking and individual threat perceptions of a global conflict in Slovakia by @angeltorresadan.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
35(1) Navigating the storm: the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on EU’s quest for strategic autonomy by Sinem Ünaldilar, Betül Aydoğan Ünal & Senem Kumova Metin: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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New Issue available: Interested in strategic autonomy, European defence planning without the US, defence industry concentration, EP and states' reactions to war against Ukraine, the EU GAR-SI Sahel project or cultural protection in conflicts? Look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...
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Volume 35, Issue 1 of European Security
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