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🧭 When Europe means unity, not pluralism: rethinking conditionality in Ukraine

August 29, 2025

Middle East escalation reveals Israel’s shifting strategy

August 28, 2025

🎭 How social media can support transformative conversations

August 28, 2025

Toward a 'not-so-grand' security strategy for European defence policy

August 27, 2025

🧭 How Hungary and Serbia expose the EU’s enlargement vulnerabilities

August 27, 2025

August 29, 2025

🧭 When Europe means unity, not pluralism: rethinking conditionality in Ukraine

Lesley-Ann Daniels and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet explore a paradox at the heart of Ukraine’s path to EU membership: the strongest pro-European voices are often the least supportive of minority rights. Drawing on new survey data, they call for a more adaptive and politically sensitive enlargement strategy

August 28, 2025

Middle East escalation reveals Israel’s shifting strategy

The security situation in the Middle East reflects the hard realities of power struggle and the implications of the quest for regional hegemony. Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal shows how Israel is exploiting instability to entrench dominance, while Iran’s projected restraint masks deep vulnerabilities. With the US’ ambiguous approach adding to tensions, the space for long-term stability is shrinking

August 28, 2025

🎭 How social media can support transformative conversations

Changing the way we think — and appreciating new perspectives — can be a complex and vulnerable process. Drawing from her research into social media as a space for sharing marginalised narratives, Friedel Marquardt presents the online 'grace space' to safely foster transformative conversations around new ideas

August 27, 2025

Toward a 'not-so-grand' security strategy for European defence policy

Are we nearing a new incarnation of the French vision of a Gaullist Europe? Focusing on strategic autonomy, nuclear deterrence, coalitions of the willing, threat perception, and defence capability, Amélie Jaques-Apke examines the strategic dilemmas, and conceptual and operational deficiencies, in European defence policy

August 27, 2025

🧭 How Hungary and Serbia expose the EU’s enlargement vulnerabilities

EU enlargement, without credible enforcement of democratic standards, threatens the Union’s integrity. Cases like Hungary and Serbia expose the dangers of performative reforms and weak accountability. Rafaela Gonzalez Lucioni argues that to remain a values-based project, the EU must reform internal mechanisms and adopt a phased, conditional approach to accession

August 26, 2025

Why European research on sexual harassment must shift focus

EU-level concern about inclusion and workplace sexual harassment is on the rise. Despite this, European academic research continues to overlook how race, class, and legal status shape victims' experiences. Irene Landini says it's time for studies of sexual harassment in higher education to take an intersectional turn

August 25, 2025

US assertiveness, China’s globalism, and the emerging AI governance race

As the US and China unveil rival AI governance blueprints, Elif Davutoğlu explores how these policy visions reflect deeper geopolitical strategies. Framed as calls for innovation or cooperation, both documents signal a global legitimacy race in which AI governance becomes a battleground for shaping the future international order

August 22, 2025

The EU’s new migration pact and the limits of flexible solidarity

A new Pact on Migration and Asylum is gradually coming into force. As it does so, Evelina Staykova and Ildiko Otova examine its solidarity mechanism, a central — but not new — element of EU migration policy. While the mechanism holds potential for positive change, it also carries significant risks

August 21, 2025

Migration: a watershed moment for EU judicial diplomacy

Maria Merkouraki argues that a May 2025 joint letter from nine EU member states signals a sovereignty-led pushback against the European Court of Human Rights. This backlash erodes Article 10 protections of the European Convention on Human Rights — and the long-term viability of judicial diplomacy in Europe

August 21, 2025

Milei’s Argentina and the unmaking of diplomacy

Consuelo Thiers argues that Javier Milei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling its diplomatic institutions. As ideology replaces expertise, and institutional norms collapse, Argentina has become a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations

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🧭 When Europe means unity, not pluralism: rethinking conditionality in Ukraine

Middle East escalation reveals Israel’s shifting strategy

🎭 How social media can support transformative conversations

Toward a 'not-so-grand' security strategy for European defence policy

🧭 How Hungary and Serbia expose the EU’s enlargement vulnerabilities

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