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EU Enlargement Revisited
Main question: How can the EU balance strategic geopolitical expansion with strict merit-based compliance to ensure sustainable integration?…
EPIS Magazine · Issue V
EPIS Magazine — Issue V
Climate & Security Nexus.
30 articles in this issue
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Key Findings on Ukraine: Key Reform Roadmap
Main question: How can Ukraine sustain its EU accession momentum and provisionally close its negotiations by the end of 2028 despite ongoing…
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Bigger Without Losing Better
Main question: How can the EU achieve enlargement without letting budget redistribution strains create disruptive domestic political deadloc…
Sectoral integration
Main question: How can the EU resolve the structural contradiction between the geopolitical need for expansion and the internal limitations …
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A Union that Scales
Main question: How can the EU adapt its traditional, binary enlargement process to expand geopolitically without falling into decision-makin…
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Building a Resilient Europe
Main question: How can the EU evolve its enlargement framework from a slow political process into a security-driven integration model that a…
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European Integration and EU External Action
Main question: How does legal fragmentation across EU external action frameworks—security, human rights, economic policy, and digital govern…
The Muslim Brotherhood as Hybrid Actor
How does the Muslim Brotherhood challenge Western stability? This article highlights the Brotherhood’s hybrid tactics, using social, politic…
Interview with Former Minister of Defence Fasslabend
Former Austrian Defence Minister Fasslabend discusses Austria’s evolving role in European defence and security, advocating for greater Europ…
Stoltenberg Out, Rutte In
What can be expected from Mark Rutte as NATO’s new Secretary General? This article examines Rutte’s thirteen years as Dutch prime minister, …
Miscalculation at Machine Speed?
Advanced AI and Machine Learning systems could challenge the nuclear balance of power by undermining mutually assured destruction.
Sovereignty in Cyberspace
Is an international consensus on cyber-sovereignty possible? As cyber-attacks surge globally, the urgency for defining state sovereignty in …
Sweden’s Historic Shift
What does Sweden’s NATO membership mean for its national defence? This article examines Sweden’s transition from neutrality to active allian…
Artificial Intelligence & Aggressive Intentions
Can AI reshape the future of warfare and deterrence? This article explores how advancements in AI and autonomous weapons are transforming mi…
Proliferation of Satellite Mega-Constellations
What does the rise of satellite mega-constellations mean for Europe’s strategic autonomy? As the space industry shifts to commercial dominan…
Arctic Exceptionalism
How can the Arctic maintain cooperation amid rising global tensions? Initially envisioned as a peaceful zone, the Arctic now faces growing g…
Short Term Protection, Long Term Struggles
Can the European Union sustain long-term support for Ukrainian refugees? While the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) offered swift relief…
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EPIS Basics: Looking at the Concept of Neutrality
This article explores the concept of neutrality and five distinctions within the multifacted concept. It provides a clearer understanding of…
Migration is International and so Should Response Efforts
Sweden, historically an emigrant nation, has become a significant migrant destination, with 20% of its population born abroad. The influx, p…
Facing Russia’s War Economy
Russia’s war economy has defied initial predictions of collapse following Western sanctions. Instead, Russia’s GDP has grown, and its milita…
The Role of AI in Supporting Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This article investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can support the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (WPS). Through the…
Reverberations of Resistance
This article explores the Western influence in Asia and the Middle East, focusing on the Vietnam War’s impact on governmental responses to p…
The Time has Come to “Europeanise” NATO
The relationship between the United States (US) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is often fantasised about by Europeans, wh…
The European Army
The European Army regularly appears in European defence discourse as a solution that would solve the troubles that the EU has had in it´s de…
Flowing Into Uncertainty
Is water security in Asia at a tipping point? Highlighting hydrological, socio-economic, and climate change factors, the article examines wa…
What will Biological Warfare look like in the 21st Century
From the perspective of a natural scientist, how will today’s technology change biological warfare in the 21st century? Over the last two de…
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EPIS Basics: the US Grand Strategy Spectrum
America has the luxury of choosing along a spectrum of four broad grand strategy choices: isolationism, offshore balancing, selective engage…
Shifting Priorities
Civil-military cooperation involves military forces working with civilian entities and populations to achieve shared goals in conflict, disa…
Multilaterism = Maltaleralism
When you think of international conflicts, small nations are often overlooked. But they also play a significant role in resolving the confli…
Implications of the EU’s Nearshoring Activities in Morocco
Amidst the global power shifts and disruptions of supply chains, the European Union will need a new strategy to secure its position in the w…
