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Biannual reports on EU foreign and security policy, enlargement dynamics, cohesion challenges, and intra-European political developments.
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Hybrid Security Regimes in Practice
Hybrid security regimes are deliberate political strategies that expand state influence through flexible, state-aligned networks rather than relying solely on…
What Post-Brexit Britain Can Learn From the Past
Britain’s strategy has long relied on alliances, balancing Europe, and deterring Russia. Today, sustaining that approach requires adapting to new global…
Priorisation matters: The Case for Grand Strategy
Interview on Grand Strategy Interviewers: Jolina-Zoe Zarda, Xerxes Hafezi Rachti Interviewee: Prof. Marina Henke, PhD About the interviewee: Marina Henke is…
Why Europe Can’t Go It Alone on Chips
Felix Thank you for agreeing to this interview. We’ve worked together on an academy on technological sovereignty. Before we start, let me say one or two…
From Medicine to Military Tech
From Medicine to Military Tech A Founder’s Journey Himmel: Dr. Andres, you are a doctor, and now you sell optics and advocate for the idea that “defence is a…
Central Banks’ Geoeconomics
How do central banks and digital currencies, particularly the Digital Euro, shape geoeconomic competition and European integration? CBDCs have become tools of…
The Baltic Pivot
The Baltic Pivot: Poland’s Strategic Reorientation By Radosław BinkiewiczEPIS Think Tank – Report Group: Security Policy and Defence The article argues that…
What to Buy in the Future?
What to Buy in the Future? Recalibrating European Defence Spending to Decrease Structural Dependencies Executive Summary Europe has increased the volume of its…
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 implement the…
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 Posture Amid Reduced…
A doctrine before a strategy
A doctrine before a strategy: Building the preconditions of European grand strategic reasoning The European Union confronts acute geopolitical pressure with…
Investing in Security
Investing in Security: How EU Fiscal Rules Undermine European Strategic Autonomy – and What to Do About It By Patryk Borowski Introduction Europe has been…
Investment Arbitration’s New Architecture
Investment Arbitration’s New Architecture How UNCITRAL and ICSID reforms are reshaping investor–State dispute settlement The reform of investor–State dispute…
From Sovereignty to Sustainability
From Sovereignty to Sustainability: Natural Resources and Investment Protection in International Economic Law Natural resources represent a cornerstone of…
Strategic non-nuclear weapons and the NPT
Strategic non-nuclear weapons and the NPT: Revisiting the binary distinction of Article IX(3) The emergence of strategic non-nuclear weapons (SNNW) has blurred…
Legal Coalitions in a Multipolar World
Legal Coalitions in a Multipolar World How the EU can defend, repair and extend rules in a contested global order by Maximilian Schlenker By early 2026, the…
Rise of the Rest
In a time of geopolitical uncertainty whether grounded in historical ties, economic relations, pacts, treaties, or a combination of these. This article…
The Global Disorder Cycle
Main question: Is the world really oscillating between eras of recession and expansion, or is this logic purely linear and the result of chance? Argument: The…
From fragmentation to flexibility
How can the EU design digital infrastructure ensuring both security and civil rights for times of peace and crisis? The answer lies in resilience by design,…
The Euro as an international currency
– Should the ECB push the Euro internationally to incentivise smaller economies to take the Euro on as their anchor currency? – The general trend point towards…
