Security & Defence

Cristina Pinna Over the past decade, research security has moved from a technical concern discussed among specialists to a central issue in European research policy. What began as a debate about protecting sensitive technologies has expanded into a broader question about how knowledge should be governed in a changing geopolitical environment. Today, it shapes funding […]

An article, published on 8 September 2025 in the Kyiv Independent, brandished the headline: ‘Russia’s gains speed up in Ukraine ahead of high-stakes autumn’. Relying on open-source data, the analysis showed how the average pace of Russia’s advances in Ukraine in 2025 far outweigh those in 2024. Indicatively, Russia captured 363 km2 of Ukrainian territory […]

This post is based on the paper entitled “Explaining the Conflict Dynamics of EU-China Climate Relations: A Case of Collective Securitisation”, presented at the UACES 2025 Graduate Forum Research Conference on May 29 in Athens, Greece. The original paper focuses on the increasing tension between China and the EU in the climate domain and provides […]

Justinas Lingevicius The European Union’s (EU) decision to exclude the military from the scope of its AI policy, as outlined in the AI Act, raises an important question: to what extent does this decision align with reality, particularly in the context of evolving defense-related programs and instruments, such as the European Defence Fund? This question […]

Not so much a post as a list of links for you this time, as I’ve been working up from a thread on BlueSky to a graphic to a podcast. The central theme here is how the UK-EU relationship is affected by the chaotic Trump administration in the US, particularly in the wake of his […]

by Sarah Wolff (Leiden University), Helena Carrapico (Northumbria University), and Agathe Piquet (UC Louvain) To kick off 2025, the JCMS blog is highlighting some of the great work published in JCMS during autumn 2024. Here we feature the findings of ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind? UK-EU Member States Bilateralism as an Enabler of Europeanisation’, […]

The nature of global economic relations has shifted towards a geoeconomic world order that also affects the European Union at its core, its Single European Market (SEM). In our introductory article to a Special Issue we assess whether, how and why the SEM is experiencing such a geoeconomic turn, and how EU responses are shaping other international actors in the process.

On April 10th, 2024, the European Parliament voted to endorse the European Commission’s proposal on a ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’. After nearly ten years since the so-called 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ and the first proposal for the amendment of the Common European Asylum System with the ‘European Agenda on Migration’, the reform of the EU asylum policy seems to be walking its last steps to the finishing line.

With the European elections just around the corner, we welcomed Nick Startin, Associate Professor of International Relations at John Cabot University, to eu!radio to discuss the rising support for Radical Right parties across the EU.

We recently welcomed Ana Bojinović Fenko to eu!radio! She is a professor of international relations at the University of Ljubljana. She reflected on her country's accession to the EU 20 years ago in a personal testimony.