The largest and most diverse European gathering of scholars and practitioners on security issues.
The conference moves to a different European city and host institution each year.
Awarded each year at the conference for the best paper by an early-career researcher, jointly with the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Online and hybrid events organised by EISS, the COST Action NetSec, and partner institutions.
Members get access to members' events: seminars and book talks hosted by the EISS community.
After nine years as Director, Hugo Meijer becomes the EISS's Founding and Honorary Director. Chiara Ruffa (CERI, Sciences Po) and Moritz Weiss (LMU Munich) take over as Co-Directors, while longstanding staff Arthur Laudrain and John Helferich join the Board.
The annual conference wrapped up two days of panels and roundtables at Stockholm University — its first edition under the ESSC name, jointly organised with COST Action NetSec and Stockholm University.
“Do Parliaments Dream of Cyber Power?” and “Telegram in Russia's Information Strategy” shared this year's European Security Studies Prize, awarded with the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Doctoral researchers gathered at Stockholm University for three days of training and mentoring in the lead-up to the conference.
The 2025 edition met at the University of Macedonia. The full programme and a photo gallery are in the archive.
11 - 12 June 2026 · Stockholm University
Jointly organised by the COST Action NetSec, the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), and Stockholm University.
Learn more about ESSC 2026Although the share of European armaments produced collaboratively climbed steadily for five decades after 1949, it has remained flat at roughly a fifth of procurement for the past two decades, even as European states built ever more robust institutions: the European Defence Agency (2004) and the 2009 Defence and...
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Members' events Joint Seminar on Election Interference and Disinformation
