The European Union’s New Energy Policy: Vulnerability, Security, and Cooperation
This paper asks whether institutionalized cooperation among EU member states has been an efficient model for responding to the shift in power relation…
Category: Foreign Affairs
Digital Diplomacy as Institutional Capability: Strengthening European Foreign Ministries in the AI Era
European foreign ministries and EU external-action institutions operate in an environment shaped by artificial intelligence, accelerated information f…
Europe Beyond Washington: The Need for a Strategy of Multi-Alignment with Canada and the Global South
Global politics are rapidly shifting, and Europe has an urgent need to adapt. In the United States, isolationist policies have threatened European pea…
Trust, interrupted: The Quiet Dissolution of Alliances in the AI Era
This paper examines what happens when AI is used not by a hostile outsider, but by one ally against another.
Silence as Erosion: Kuwait’s Mass Denationalisation and the Weakening of International Citizenship Norm
From 2024-2026, Kuwait reforms its nationality laws to grant the executive unchecked power to revoke citizenship retroactively. By August 3035 approxi…
Mission Command in a Multicultural Alliance: Can Decentralized Leadership Survive Cultural Divergence?
As NATO adapts to high-intensity, multi-domain operations, its effectiveness depends not only on technological and procedural interoperability but als…
The SAFE Instrument as a Mechanism for Regional Stability on the EU’s Eastern Border
The war in Ukraine has generated unprecedented security, humanitarian, and institutional pressures on the European Union's eastern border, creating sp…
Demographic Contraction as a Strategic Vulnerability in EU–Indo-Pacific Security Cooperation
European security strategy increasingly relies on deeper cooperation with Indo-Pacific democracies, particularly Japan and South Korea, in defence-ind…
The Lobito Corridor Beyond Geopolitical Competition: Infrastructure, Critical Minerals and Regional Development
Officially launched in May 2023 under the G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, the Lobito Corridor received further political endo…
Framing European Security After Ukraine: Why the EU Needs a Strategic Narrative Shift
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has transformed the European Union’s role in security and defence. Yet its communication has not consisten…