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  • Collaborative

    Security and Defence Days 2024

  • Other

    Sino-Russian Economic Relations: Dispelling the “No Limits” Partnership Myth

  • Collaborative

    Navigating Multipolarity: Southeast Europe in the EU’s China Strategy

  • Other

    Rethinking Europe’s Middle East Strategy in a Changing World

  • Ukraine

    Securing Europe’s Critical Minerals: Leveraging the EU-Ukraine Partnership Amidst US Competition

  • Other

    The Future of NATO: Demise, Reform, or Rebirth?

  • Collaborative

    Finland’s NATO Strategy

  • IN BRIEF

    Evaluating China’s Space Capabilities and Ambitions

  • IN BRIEF

    Preventing Georgia from Sliding Away: Options for the European Union

  • Ukraine

    Reconstructing Ukraine: How the EU and Ukraine Can Mutually Benefit

  • The 7Ds

    The 7Ds – De-risking Globalisation Extended

  • Collaborative

    Intersecting Paths: Strategic Autonomy, Enlargement, and the Future of EU-Western Balkans Relations

  • Other

    Proposal for the European Commission White Paper on The Future of European Defence

  • Research Papers

    Why Europe Needs a Nuclear Deterrent: A Critical Appraisal

  • Policy Briefs

    Reconnecting the British to Europe: Strategic Imperatives and Inconvenient Truths

  • Policy Briefs

    The Northern Ireland Protocol and Why It Still Matters

  • Other

    Ambitions and Limits: The Deepening Security Dialogue Between Japan and the European Union

  • Other

    Fortifying Economic Security: The EU’s Response to China’s Risk 

  • Other

    EU-Taiwan Ties in a New Reality: Time for an Upgrade

  • Ukraine

    Russian Economy: Still Standing, But Stuck

  • Collaborative

    Transatlantic Trade and Technology: Partners or Rivals?

  • Policy Briefs

    Freedom Must Be Better Armed Than Tyranny: Boosting Research and Industrial Capacity for European Defence

  • Collaborative

    International Cooperation in a New Era: the EU’s Quest for Like-Minded Partners – Latin American and Caribbean

  • Collaborative

    China’s Influence on the Western Balkans’ EU Accession Process: Synergies and Obstacles

  • Collaborative

    Security and Defence Days – Conference Proceedings

  • Ukraine

    From Bad to Worse: The Continuing Effects of Sanctions on Russia

  • Ukraine

    The Ukraine War and Its Implications for European Security

  • Ukraine

    The War in Ukraine and the Way Forward

  • Policy Briefs

    Relations Between the EU and Switzerland: Too Much to Lose, Too Little to Negotiate?

  • Ukraine

    Beyond the Headlines: The Real Impact of Western Sanctions on Russia

  • Ukraine

    Thinking the Unthinkable: How Might the EU Prepare for and React to a Russian Nuclear Strike on Ukraine?

  • Ukraine

    Russia’s War Against Ukraine is Changing Europe’s Strategic Culture

  • Ukraine

    Democratisation in EU Foreign Policy: The Cases of Belarus, Turkey and Ukraine

  • Policy Briefs

    Ambitions Dashed: Why Sino-Russian Economic Cooperation Is Not Working

  • Collaborative

    Finland, Europe and the Western Security Community: What next?

  • Policy Briefs

    Qualified Majority Voting in EU Foreign Policy: Make It So

  • IN BRIEF

    Researching the Dragon – The EU Needs to Build up its Independent China Expertise

  • IN BRIEF

    The 17+1 Mechanism: Something Doesn’t Add Up

  • Collaborative

    China in the Broader Black Sea Region

  • Collaborative

    The Strategic Role of External Actors in the Western Balkans

  • Policy Briefs

    Europe and Biden: Towards a New Transatlantic Pact?

  • Collaborative

    Water Management of cross-border waterbodies

  • Collaborative

    The Political Turmoil in Belarus: Current Realities and Foreseeable Prospects

  • IN BRIEF

    Implications of the 2020 US Presidential Election for the EU

  • IN BRIEF

    COVID-19 and the Old-New Politics of Irregular Migration from Libya

  • IN BRIEF

    State of play in the Libyan Civil War

  • IN BRIEF

    EU Trade Policy as an Economic Recovery Tool

  • Policy Briefs

    Development Aid, Migration and Conditionality – The Case of the Marshall Plan with Africa

  • IN FOCUS

    The EU’s Security and Defence Policy: The Impact of the Coronavirus

  • Policy Briefs

    EU Human Rights Promotion in Central Asia – Between the Dragon and the Bear

  • Research Papers

    The Renewal of Vows: A New Transatlantic Chapter for Europe and America

  • Research Papers

    Strategic Autonomy: Why It’s Not About Europe Going it Alone

  • Research Papers

    Thin on the Ground: Recalibrating EU-Turkey Engagement in Syria

  • Policy Briefs

    Political Warfare: Competition in the Cyber Era

  • Policy Briefs

    The New Geopolitics of the Arctic: Russia, China and the EU

  • Research Papers

    EU It Yourself: A Blueprint for a European Security Council

  • Policy Briefs

    Reducing Irregular Migration Flows through EU External Action

  • IN BRIEF

    Security and Defence policy: An Agenda for 2019-2024

  • IN BRIEF

    Time for a (more) centre-right EU foreign policy chief

  • Policy Briefs

    France’s European Intervention Initiative: Towards a Culture of Burden Sharing

  • IN FOCUS

    North Korea: Towards a More Effective EU Policy

  • Policy Briefs

    Filling the Void: Why the EU Must Step Up Support for Russian Civil Society

  • IN BRIEF

    The US-led missile strikes in Syria

  • IN BRIEF

    New American scepticism on EU defence cooperation

  • Future of Europe

    For a True European Defence Union

  • IN FOCUS

    Cyber-Defence: Strengthening the EU’s Resilience in the Virtual Domain

  • IN FOCUS

    New Multilateral Structures: the Rise of an Alternative Order or More of the Same?

  • IN FOCUS

    A New Transatlantic Agenda: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trump Era

  • IN FOCUS

    How We Have Become an Enemy in the Eyes of Russia: The EU as Portrayed by Kremlin Propaganda

  • IN FOCUS

    Security Policy: The Case for a Postmodern EU Defence Architecture

  • IN FOCUS

    The Russian Economy: Recovery Is Further Away than Some Might Think

  • Ukraine

    Ukraine Reforms: milestones and achievements

  • Research Papers

    Good or Bad Neighbours: The Main European Security Challenge

  • Policy Briefs

    What the EU Can, May and Should Do to Support Georgia

  • IN FOCUS

    The Tsar and His Business Serfs: Russian Oligarchs and SMEs Did Not Surprise Putin at the Elections

  • Research Papers

    The Bear in Sheep’s Clothing: Russia’s Government-Funded Organisations in the EU

  • Policy Briefs

    From Disapproval to Change? Russia’s Population May Surprise Putin at the Next Elections

  • Ukraine

    No Illusions, No Regrets: The Current Struggle to Reform Ukraine

  • Research Papers

    The Long March Towards the EU: Candidates, Neighbours and the Prospects for Enlargement

  • Policy Briefs

    Russia’s Downfall: The Worst Economic Crisis Since the Collapse of the USSR

  • Research Papers

    Innocence and War: Searching for Europe’s Strategy in Syria

  • Ukraine

    Caught in the Act: Proof of Russian Military Intervention in Ukraine

  • Research Papers

    Muzzling the bear: Strategic Defence for Russia’s Undeclared Information War on Europe

  • Research Papers

    Dawn of the Drones: Europe’s Security Response to the Cyber Age

  • Research Papers

    The Renaissance of the West: How Europe and America Can Shape Up in Confronting Putin’s Russia

  • Ukraine

    Ukraine after Minsk II: The military situation on the ground

  • Research Papers

    Building a Lifeline for Freedom: Eastern Partnership 2.0

  • IN FOCUS

    EU-Russia relations: How the EU should handle the Mistral case

  • Research Papers

    Getting Georgia Right

  • Policy Briefs

    The Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring: Tactics, Challenges and Future Scenarios

  • Research Papers

    Breaking Down the Walls: Improving EU–NATO Relations

  • Research Papers

    Rethinking the Bomb: Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century

  • Collaborative

    Conservative Foreign and Security Policy

  • Research Papers

    The Impact of the Crisis on the EU Perspective of the Western Balkans

  • Other

    Ideas to Actions: A Springeneration for EU-MENA Cooperation in Education

  • Research Papers

    Dealing with a Rising Power: Turkey’s Transformation and its Implications for the EU

  • Research Papers

    Contracting out to Private Military and Security Companies

  • Research Papers

    European Integration of Western Balkans: From Reconciliation To European Future

  • Collaborative

    International Politics in Times of Change

  • Other

    Europe and the Arab Revolutions

  • Collaborative

    Belarus and the EU: from Isolation towards Cooperation

  • Other

    European Neighbourhood Policy: Addressing Myths, Narrowing Focus, Improving Implementation

  • Research Papers

    EU-Russia Relations: Time for a realistic turnaround

  • Research Papers

    Old Ghosts in New Sheets: European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy

  • Research Papers

    Stopping the Drift: Recalibrating the Transatlantic Relationship for a Multipolar World

  • Research Papers

    The New Eastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for the EU

  • Research Papers

    EU-Africa Relations: Dealing With the Challenges of the Future

  • Collaborative

    Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy

  • Research Papers

    Squaring the Circle? EU-Israel Relations and the Peace Process in the Middle East

  • Collaborative

    The Finnish Perspective: European Defence


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