At EWIS 2025 in Krakow (July 2–4, 2025), @susmonika.bsky.social and I will host a workshop on "Reconfiguring Collective Deterrence and Defense on NATO’s Northern and Eastern Flanks." You can submit your abstract until February 11, 2025: eisa-net.org/ewis-2025 More info: eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

New Geopolitical Europe Pulse is out! Today: background reading on the new European commissioner for defence, feat. pieces by @danielfiott.bsky.social, Rym Momtaz Strategic Europe and long read by @susmonika.bsky.social. Check it out: geopoliticaleurope.substack.com/p/geopolitic...

So happy about it!!👇🏼👇🏼

Eastern enlargement has a direct impact on European security, but merging the two policies could create complications. Together with @susmonika.bsky.social, we argue for the need for close coordination. In our policy brief published at the EPC, we set out specific strategies to facilitate this. 👇

We asked, provocatively, whether RUS info ops are *most* potent weapon. "RUS info ops are uniquely insidious as they exploit societal fissures, weaken demo processes, amplify divisive narratives. In a way, they can be more dangerous than military aggression" @susmonika.bsky.social

Most articles in the special issue, including those by Lydia Wachs on 🇷🇺, @susmonika.bsky.social and L. Kulesa on 🇵🇱, @tongfi-kim.bsky.social and Do Young Lee on 🇯🇵/🇰🇷, @profonderco.bsky.social and me on 🇩🇪 as well our introduction, are available with open access.

"the credibility of 🇵🇱 security-focused agenda lies in addressing broader secu dimensions like using its presidency to push EU countries to find solutions for financing common defense or accelerating coord Euro defense prodn." says @susmonika.bsky.social #TTP carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

🧊🌍 How does climate change influence resource competition? Find out with Jonathan Markowitz from USC at our International Security Research Colloquium at @hertiesecurity.bsky.social. Thursday, 16.11.2023 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (CET) Register now👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

📣 Join @Hertie_Security's panel on combating digital repression faced by scholars. Insights from Sabrina Spieleder, John Albert, Charlotte Freihse, moderated by Viktoria Boiko. 📆 14.11.2023 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm CET | Online Register now! 🔽 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

Line-up for the next days: 📢 Sunday, 17:45 Times Radio 📢 Monday, 11:00 -12:00, Polish elections: What is at stake for the EU?, European Policy Centre lnkd.in/dqxits55 📢 Thursday, 15:30 - 16:30, Poland and Slovakia Elect: What Next for Ukraine and European Democracy? lnkd.in/d-EM2U4h

Here’s a development you won’t hear much about: as Israel bombs Gaza and warns civilians to leave, Egypt closed the only way for them to get out. But of course it’s only Israel, the US and EU that are considered to have agency in these conflicts. on.ft.com/46mbynn