Russia’s hybrid tactics — emboldening sovereigntist populism, spreading disinformation, and weaponising economic hardship — threaten EU enlargement. Countermeasures, argues Denis Cenusa, are thus essential to protecting the enlargement process and the Union’s strategic resilience
Risk Analyst and Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance / PhD Candidate, Justus-Liebig University
Denis's main associations are the Geopolitics and Security Studies Centre (Lithuania) and the think tank Expert-Group (Moldova).
He is conducting his doctoral research on Russian hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe's energy sector at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen.
In 2024, he taught a BA and MA course in Germany on Russian hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe.
Denis provides consultancy on risk and crisis assessment and strategic communication.
His research covers European integration in Eastern Europe and the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the post-Soviet and Black Sea regions.
Over the past 15 years, Denis has authored more than 300 analytical articles, policy briefs, scholarly articles, book chapters, and reports in English, Russian, Spanish and Romanian.
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