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Limited Statehood
Limited Statehood: How Armed Groups Fill Governance Gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa When state authority is weak or absent, armed groups may seiz…
EPIS Magazine · Issue III
EPIS Magazine — Issue III
Democracy & Governance.
40 articles in this issue
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What It Takes to Build Peace Today
-In an era of escalating global instability, what does it truly take to move beyond short-term deterrence and build lasting, sustainable pea…
Hydro-Hegemony: Türkiye’s Leverage over Syria Iraq
How does Türkiye’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) transform upstream water control into geoeconomic leverage over Syria and Iraq? This …
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The Baltic Pivot
The Baltic Pivot: Poland’s Strategic Reorientation By Radosław BinkiewiczEPIS Think Tank – Report Group: Security Policy and Defence The art…
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What to Buy in the Future?
What to Buy in the Future? Recalibrating European Defence Spending to Decrease Structural Dependencies Executive Summary Europe has increase…
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Intelligence as part of European grand strategy
Intelligence as a part of European grand strategy: a feasible future on a larger scale? Introduction Intelligence agencies help policymakers…
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Reconfiguring Europe’s Forward Presence:
Anna Lena Gansäuer Anton Hahn Draft V3, June 26, 2026 Reconfiguring Europe’s Forward Presence: Designing a Credible Eastern Flank Postu…
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A doctrine before a strategy
A doctrine before a strategy: Building the preconditions of European grand strategic reasoning The European Union confronts acute geopolitic…
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Investing in Security
Investing in Security: How EU Fiscal Rules Undermine European Strategic Autonomy – and What to Do About It By Patryk Borowski Introduction E…
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Rethinking the EU’s Expansion Dilemmas
Main question: How can the EU pursue geopolitically necessary enlargement without weakening its internal cohesion and governance capacity? A…
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Progressive EU Accession Path for Ukraine
Main question: How can the EU offer Ukraine meaningful integration benefits during a long pre-accession period without resorting to a politi…
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A Sectoral Roadmap to EU Integration
Main question: How can the EU advance cooperation and prevent loss of influence in Georgia, given structural incompatibility, political ambi…
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Strategic Association Treaty (SAT)
Main question: How can the EU enhance its strategic autonomy and competitiveness without causing internal deadlock through full membership e…
Strait of Hormuz
This essay aims to highlight the impact of the current blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on the EU, how it is managing, relatively, the crisi…
Critical political ecology (CPE)
– The concept of critical political ecology highlights the link between the moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement and c…
Resilient Roots: EU Tech Grants for Farmers
How can the EU accelerate climate tool adoption for smallholders in Africa and SE Asia without increasing financial risk? Loan-based models …
Policy Incompatibility in the European Union
Do the monetary costs expected to be saved by businesses through simplification initiatives outweigh the possibly detrimental costs for envi…
Water as an Instrument of War
Should the environment be used as an instrument of war ?
EPIS 10: Security, Society and Sustainability
The interview discussed, among other topics, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the Green Party’s position on delivering weapons to…
Hedging Against Uncertainty
What is Hedging? Hedging is a foreign policy strategy of states against uncertainty. Hedging, although a contested concept, can help observe…
About Defence Readiness 2030
The article asks how the EU can achieve defense readiness by 2030 while reducing reliance on the US. It argues that Europe is finally respon…
Shifting Paradigms
The text asks whether Chinese experts’ long-held views of the EU as an economic stabilizer and nonrival are shifting. It argues that while m…
Taiwan Is Not Ukraine
Is Taiwan really the next Ukraine? Amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, Lenaïg Deslandes challenges the increasingly common comparison …
Entering a New Phase of Geopolitical De-Risking
Can U.S. cities protect themselves from foreign influence? As Sino-U.S. sister city partnerships come under growing scrutiny, Vincent Sipeer…
Missing the Jungle for the Trees
How did US intelligence miss the warning signs of the Tet Offensive? Dmytro Sochnyev revisits one of the Vietnam War’s most consequential in…
When Supply Lines Become Fault Lines
Can Japan and South Korea keep the lights on amid Indo-Pacific tensions? As rising geopolitical frictions threaten critical maritime routes,…
Foresight Analysis for Policymaking in International Relations
Can policymakers really anticipate the future? As uncertainty defines today’s global politics, Jonatan von Moltke explores the rise of fores…
China 2049 vs. India 2047
What are the great power plans for the mid-21st century—and how do they differ? China and India are charting rival paths toward global influ…
Opinion Building About Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the most enduring and complex geopolitical issues in modern history. The conflict’s complexity makes…
The Effect of Double Tax Treaties On Foreign Relations
Double Tax Treaties influence the participating states’ tax revenue. In the past, they have been accompanying the rise and fall of diplomati…
Hiding in Plain Sight
Over the past years, open-source intelligence (OSINT) has gained increasing public attention. This background article analyses the power and…
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EPIS Basics: Thucydides’ Trap
The text explores Thucydides’ Trap: rising power sparks war. Fear, honor, and interest are key motives for conflict. Creative diplomacy offe…
Armament Supply For Ukraine
Whether Ukraine is supported by arms deliveries or whether this only prolongs a devastating war is a difficult question. Diplomacy does not …
Stop Further Schengenigans
New EU members shouldn’t agree to the same Schengen Accession rules that Romania and Bulgaria signed. It’s better for democracy.
How to Hug a Panda
China’s rapid rise has prompted an extensive reevaluation of national security, technological competition, and trade dependencies in the Wes…
Navigating Troubled Waters
The article discusses the current security challenges in the Black Sea region. The war in Ukraine has revealed vulnerabilities within NATO, …
Looking Out For Sovereignty
Facing a multitude of crises in an increasingly multi-order world, Europe is experiencing a politicisation of European security policy integ…
Geostrategic Aircraft Carrier
The paper examines Gotland’s strategic importance amid evolving regional security dynamics, focusing on its potential role in deterring conf…
Natural Resources
A recurring theme when it comes to natural resources is their perception as a curse or blessing for the countries that possess them. While s…
Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS)
Visionaries of European strategic autonomy have engaged in many initiatives to reduce European dependency on U.S. weapon technology. Most re…
