'Europe is Not a Country': Nuclear Patronage and Eurodeterrence Concerns in the Frontline States
Christopher David LaRoche
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Central European University
ESSC 2026Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Deterrence
“A Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never be Fought”: Analyzing the U.S. Response to Russian Nuclear Threats in Ukraine
Fiona Galvis
ESSC 2026Cocktail & Poster Session
A Shadow in the Clouds: Where Is Germany’s Missile Posture Heading?
Lucian Bumeder
IFSH
ESSC 2026Cocktail & Poster Session
AI-Driven Cloud Monitoring and Cyber Situational Awareness in European Digital Infrastructures
Prof. Daniela Mechkaroska, Prof. Ervin Domazet
University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle”, Ohrid, N.Macedonia · International Balkan University, Faculty of Engineering
ESSC 2026Cyber and Digital Sovereignty
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Anticipated Failure: Why States Go to War Un(der)prepared
Mariya Grinberg
MIT
ESSC 2026Conceptualizing Military Strategy: From Planning to War
Transformations of warfare and conflictTheoretical developments in security studies
Artistic Resilience-Building in Lithuania’s Local Security Policy
Anna Luisa Reinhardt
Sciences Po, Northern German Lutheran Church, Lithuanian Diakonija
ESSC 2026Gender, Politics, and Security
Gender and security
Beyond the State: Voluntary Civilian Pro-Defence Organisations and Security Governance in Georgia
Rusudan Zabakhidze
Swedish Defence University
ESSC 2026Beyond the State: Securitization, Governance, and Private Actors
Private military actors
Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Edge of European Stability
Prof. Kenan Hodžić, Prof. Jasmin Ahić
Assistant Professor · Full Professor
ESSC 2026Regional Security in the Balkans
Regional security and area studies
Classical geopolitics in cyberspace: Explaining cyber state behaviour with power position
Lorenz Sommer
Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich
ESSC 2026Cyber and Digital Sovereignty
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Conceptual Inquiry into Military Deep Operations: A Framework for Analysis
Mr Martijn Rouvroije, Martijn Rouvroije
Netherlands Defence Academy - Faculty of Military Sciences · Netherlands Faculty of Military Sciences
ESSC 2026The Conduct of Contemporary and Future War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Conceptualizing Nuclear Umbrellas
Alexander Sorg
Hertie School
ESSC 2026Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Deterrence
Cooperation under Stress: Organisational Compatibility and NATO–EU Cooperation in a Fractured Transatlantic Order
Mark Rhinard, Dr Niklas Bremberg, Anna Michalski, August Danielson
Stockholm University
ESSC 2026War & Strategy: Strategic Deterrence under Duress
Deterrence
Criminalising Solidarity: Border Securitisation, Non-State Actors, and Vernacular Humanitarianism in Europe
Mia Abdić
ESSC 2026Beyond the State: Securitization, Governance, and Private Actors
Private military actors
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity
Sarah Backman, Dr Tim Stevens
Swedish Defence University
ESSC 2026Virtually Transformed? Digital Infrastructures, Competition, and Governance
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Cybercrime & AI: Resilience-by-Design in the Information Age: Tabletop Evidence on AI-Enabled Cybercrime, Coordination, and Public Trust
Gil Baram
UC Berkeley and Bar Ilan University
ESSC 2026Disruptive Machines: AI, Information Operations, and Cyber Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Disclosure and Duplicity: How Technology Influences International Competition
Tristan Volpe, Prof. Jane Vaynman
IFSH University of Hamburg / Naval Postgraduate School · SAIS Johns Hopkins
ESSC 2026Stepping into the Future: Military Technology, Innovation Practices, and Contemporary Challenges
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Do Parliaments Dream of Cyber Power? Parliamentary Scrutiny in the Strategic Domain of Cyberspace
Mattia Sguazzini
University of Genova, Italy
ESSC 2026Virtually Transformed? Digital Infrastructures, Competition, and Governance
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Domestic Politics and Military Aid to Ukraine: Explaining Disclosure Policies in France and Germany
Marius Ghincea, Wolfgang Minatti
European University Institute
ESSC 2026The Conduct of Contemporary and Future War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
EU’s Ontological Security and Geopolitical Enlargement
Nikolaos Tzifakis
University of the Peloponnese
ESSC 2026Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Explaining Heterogeneity in Public Support for Collective Defense in NATO: Evidence from a Cross - National Survey of Allied Countries
Isabelle Haynes, Dr Ondrej Rosendorf, Michal Smetana
Charles University · Peace Research Center Prague / Charles University
ESSC 2026War & Strategy: Strategic Deterrence under Duress
Deterrence
Filling the EU’s Identity Void from Without and Within – Forging a Geopolitics of Values
Kurt Bassuener
Democratization Policy Council, Sarajevo
ESSC 2026Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Financial (In)Security, TikTok, and the Far-Right Pipeline
Clara Jammot
King's College London
ESSC 2026Disruptive Machines: AI, Information Operations, and Cyber Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Fortifying the Eastern Flank: Leveraging Historical Lessons to Create Effective Defence Systems
Alexander Lanoszka, Dr Michael Hunzeker
George Mason University
ESSC 2026Conceptualizing Military Strategy: From Planning to War
Transformations of warfare and conflictTheoretical developments in security studies
Fragile Control: How De Facto States Degrade Nuclear Security in the Donbas
Eliza Gheorghe, Ms Isil Idrisoglu, Mrs Yanina Shved-Dogrul
Bilkent University · University of Pittsburgh · Bogazici Universitesi
ESSC 2026Politics at the Intersection of Climate, Industrialization and Security
Climate and security
From Normalisation to Strategic Stabilisation: Geopolitisation of the Pristina–Belgrade Dialogue within EU Enlargement
Filip Ejdus, Alexandra Prodromidou, Faye Ververidou, Sonja Stojanovic Gajic
University of Belgrade · York Europe Campus, Business School · University of Rijeka / University of Belgrade
ESSC 2026Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
From Platforms to Networks: The Political Hurdles of Transitioning to Data-Centric Warfare
Mr Dumitru-Catalin Vasile
National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania
ESSC 2026Military Transformation: Military Innovation and Strategic Change in the Transatlantic Context
Transformations of warfare and conflictEuropean and transatlantic security
From Precision to Existential Risk: Hypersonic Weapons and the Erosion of the Conventional–Nuclear Divide
Mr Tahir Azad
Department of Politics & IR, University of Reading, UK
ESSC 2026Nuclear Weapons in a Changing World: From Deterrence to Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms controlDeterrence
From Privateers to Private Maritime Security: Irregular Maritime Actors and the Long History of Delegated Security at Sea
Pieter Zhao
Erasmus University Rotterdam
ESSC 2026Beyond the State: Securitization, Governance, and Private Actors
Private military actors
From rebels’ to State’s justice: post-conflict justice choices in 2026 Syria
Marie Robin
Leiden University
ESSC 2026War and Peace Abroad: Security Assistance, Multilateral Operations, and Peace‑Building
Defence cooperation and military assistanceMilitary interventions
From Rogue States to Russia: How Threat Perceptions Drove Congressional Support for Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons, 1993–2020
Frank Kuhn
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
ESSC 2026Military Transformation: Military Innovation and Strategic Change in the Transatlantic Context
Transformations of warfare and conflictEuropean and transatlantic security
Gendering Non-Traditional Security: A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Violence, Reconciliation and Post-War Development in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Colombia
Teodora Stoicescu
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
ESSC 2026Gender, Politics, and Security
Gender and security
Geopoliticisation of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership: A Role-Theoretical Perspective
Marko Kovačević, Milan Varda, Dr Tijana Rečević Krstić
University of Belgrade
ESSC 2026Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Governing cybersecurity and the politics of state control in the digital age
Moritz Weiss, Ms Yagnyashri Kodaru
LMU Munich · Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
ESSC 2026Virtually Transformed? Digital Infrastructures, Competition, and Governance
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Influence as Strategic Infrastructure: China, NATO, and Competition Below the Threshold of War
Sara Russo, Mrs Giulia Biselli
Centre for High Defence Studies (CASD)
ESSC 2026Conceptualizing Military Strategy: From Planning to War
Transformations of warfare and conflictTheoretical developments in security studies
Interpreting Counterterrorism in African Conflict Management
Saurav Narain, Silvia D'Amato
Leiden University · James Madison University
ESSC 2026War and Peace Abroad: Security Assistance, Multilateral Operations, and Peace‑Building
Defence cooperation and military assistanceMilitary interventions
Knowing cybersecurity: The epistemic infrastructural power of big tech
Tobias Liebetrau
University of Copenhagen
ESSC 2026Virtually Transformed? Digital Infrastructures, Competition, and Governance
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Learning from Ukraine: The West must be prepared for positional warfare
Baptiste Alloui-Cros, Giles Moon
Oxford University
ESSC 2026The Conduct of Contemporary and Future War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Legitimating the Bomb: US Efforts to Manage Public Information about Nuclear Weapons after World War II
Jennifer Erickson
ESSC 2026Nuclear Weapons in a Changing World: From Deterrence to Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms controlDeterrence
Living with the nuclear: Spatio-temporal entanglements, nuclear cultures, and the afterlives of uranium mining
Elisabeth Saar
Hamburg University
ESSC 2026Politics at the Intersection of Climate, Industrialization and Security
Climate and security
Mapping Plural Visions of Peace: The Peace Cube as an Analytical Framework
Yijun Xu, Dr Gijsbert Van Iterson Scholten
Free University of Berlin · University of Amsterdam
ESSC 2026War and Peace Abroad: Security Assistance, Multilateral Operations, and Peace‑Building
Defence cooperation and military assistanceMilitary interventions
Narrative Amplification, Plot Structures, and Emotions on VKontakte: Tsargrad’s Popular Geopolitics in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Alexandra Brankova, Ms Dalia Pablo Ortiz
Swedish Defence University · Uppsala University
ESSC 2026Disruptive Machines: AI, Information Operations, and Cyber Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
NATO as an Innovation Hub? How Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Are Reshaping Allied Innovation
Vasiliki Plessia Aravani
Diplomatische Academie Wien, University of Vienna
ESSC 2026Military Transformation: Military Innovation and Strategic Change in the Transatlantic Context
Transformations of warfare and conflictEuropean and transatlantic security
No Woman's Land: Securitisation of Female Forced Migration in Afghanistan
Jéssica da Costa Pereira
NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities
ESSC 2026Gender, Politics, and Security
Gender and security
Nuclear Futures, Utopias, and the Case for a Renewed ‘Strict Sufficiency’
Benoît Pelopidas
Sciences Po
ESSC 2026The Politics of Deterrence in Europe
Deterrence
Patterns of Foreign Nuclear Deployment: Understanding Host State Refusal in NATO
Jacklyn Majnemer
LSE
ESSC 2026Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Deterrence
Peace as Stalemate: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Forever Missions and the Strategic Logic of Frozen Peace
Dr SENADA ŠELO ŠABIĆ
Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
ESSC 2026Regional Security in the Balkans
Regional security and area studies
Pitfalls of Transitional Justice and (In)Security in the Western Balkans: Case Study of Serbia
Dr SANDRA CVIKIĆ
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Regional Center Vukovar
ESSC 2026Regional Security in the Balkans
Regional security and area studies
Plus ca Change: Continuity in the French Nuclear Approach.
July Decarpentrie
Swedish Defence University
ESSC 2026The Politics of Deterrence in Europe
Deterrence
Quantum-Resilient SATIN and European Digital Sovereignty
Dr Gürkan Gür
Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW
ESSC 2026Cyber and Digital Sovereignty
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Reconceptualizing nuclear deterrence and national identity: the cases of Finland and Sweden
Emma Rosengren
Stockholm University
ESSC 2026The Politics of Deterrence in Europe
Deterrence
Revisiting Multi-Domain Operations: A Historical Reflection on the Respective Roles of Combination and Prioritisation in the Conduct of War
Dr Samuel Zilincik, Dr James Horncastle
Royal Danish Defence College · Simon Fraser University
ESSC 2026Conceptualizing Military Strategy: From Planning to War
Transformations of warfare and conflictTheoretical developments in security studies
Ritual deterrence, magic strategies, and nuclear war in Europe
Prof. Matthew Evangelista
Cornell University
ESSC 2026The Politics of Deterrence in Europe
Deterrence
Selling the Future of War: Discursive Power and Military Innovation
Nicolas Krieger
Technical University of Munich
ESSC 2026Stepping into the Future: Military Technology, Innovation Practices, and Contemporary Challenges
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Sending the Wrong Signals: When Armaments Worry Allies
Tim Thies
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
ESSC 2026Stepping into the Future: Military Technology, Innovation Practices, and Contemporary Challenges
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Small states in the current international war agenda: Between shelter seeking and souverenism
Mitko Arnaudov
Institute of International Politics and Economics
ESSC 2026War & Strategy: Strategic Deterrence under Duress
Deterrence
Socialized to Cooperate? Foreign Military Training and Coordination in UN Peacekeeping Operations
Ilker Kalin, Prof. Carla Martinez Machain
Stockholm University · University at Buffalo, SUNY
ESSC 2026War and Peace Abroad: Security Assistance, Multilateral Operations, and Peace‑Building
Defence cooperation and military assistanceMilitary interventions
Speak through the Nocturne: Navigating Strategic Interest in Intelligence Diplomacy
Archishman Ray Goswami
DPhil International Relations, University of Oxford
ESSC 2026Cocktail & Poster Session
State fragility, power sharing institutions and group inequalities
Gulzhan Asylbek kyzy
UNU-MERIT
ESSC 2026Cocktail & Poster Session
Telegram in Russia’s Information Strategy: Evidence from Serbia
Anna Seliverstova
Linnaeus University
ESSC 2026Disruptive Machines: AI, Information Operations, and Cyber Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
The Confidence Trap: Leader-Advisor Deliberations and the Making of (In)Credible Threats
Wendy He
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
ESSC 2026War & Strategy: Strategic Deterrence under Duress
Deterrence
The Gender politics of LIO contestation: A research Agenda
Elisabetta Ginevra Iida
University of Padova
ESSC 2026Gender, Politics, and Security
Gender and security
The Self-Reliance Dilemma in Conventional Weapons: When does India Innovate Instead of Import?
Ms Yagnyashri Kodaru
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
ESSC 2026Stepping into the Future: Military Technology, Innovation Practices, and Contemporary Challenges
Transformations of warfare and conflict
The Strategic Logic of Violence During Negotiations
Johannes Lucht, Prof. Allard Duursma, Evan Perkoski
ETH Zurich · University of Connecticut
ESSC 2026Beyond the State: Securitization, Governance, and Private Actors
Private military actors
Upload Pending? Tradeoffs, Uncertainty, and Damage-Limitation in a Multipolar Age
Tyler Bowen
United States Naval War College
ESSC 2026Nuclear Weapons in a Changing World: From Deterrence to Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms controlDeterrence
Vectorial Analysis of Hybrid Warfare: Directionality, Interaction, and Systemic Effects
Fabio Duarte
Czech Technical University / Charles University
ESSC 2026Military Transformation: Military Innovation and Strategic Change in the Transatlantic Context
Transformations of warfare and conflictEuropean and transatlantic security
Water In-Security and Climate Migration in Iraq Analyzing Socio-Economic Threats
Saman Omar, Ms Dunia Baban
College of Humanity, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq · Stockholm University
ESSC 2026Politics at the Intersection of Climate, Industrialization and Security
Climate and security
Western Balkan Criminal Groups and the Transformation of Regional Security
Dr Kire Babanoski
Faculty of Security - Skopje, University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Bitola, North Macedonia
ESSC 2026Regional Security in the Balkans
Regional security and area studies
What are tactical nuclear weapons for? The multiple logics of NATO’s theater nuclear posture
Linde Desmaele
Leiden University
ESSC 2026Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Deterrence
Working in the Margins: Can Small State Special Operations contribute to Deterrence?
Troels Burchall Henningsen
Royal Danish Defence University
ESSC 2026The Conduct of Contemporary and Future War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
’Total Defence’ and Transformations in the Making of European Security
Joakim Berndtsson, Andreas Kruck, Moritz Weiss
University of Gothenburg · LMU Munich
EISS 2025European Transformations in the Organization of Security
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Advancing authoritarian alignment? A systematic mapping of defense diplomacy between China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran
Sabine Mokry
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 1: Studies in (Re)alignments
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Assisting to Win? Military Assistance and Coercion in War
Kersti Larsdotter
Swedish Defense University
EISS 2025War and Strategy
Belgium’s Defence Policy After the Invasion of Ukraine: A Free Rider’s Business-as-Usual Approach
Michelle Haas, Tim Haesebrouck
Ghent University
EISS 2025European Transformations in the Organization of Security
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Beyond Exit: Examining Protégés’ Intra-Alliance Bargaining Strategies
Maximilian Krebs
University of Greifswald
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 1: Studies in (Re)alignments
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Big tech at war: The infrastructural politics of public-private relations
Tobias Liebetrau
University of Copenhagen
EISS 2025Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Can European Defence Cooperation Build European Deterrence?
Fotini Bellou
University of Macedonia
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 3: Reforms in European Security
Defence cooperation and military assistanceEuropean and transatlantic security
Changing Pathways to the Bomb
Eliza Gheorghe
Bilkent University
EISS 2025Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Common Threat, Diverging Responses? Explaining European States’ Military Spending After the War in Ukraine
Tim Haesebrouck, Michelle Haas
Ghent University
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 2: New Research Directions
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Competitive Cyber Statecraft of the Middle-Ground: A Neoclassical Realist Model
Arthur Laudrain, Joe Devanny
King’s College London - Department of War Studies
EISS 2025Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Digital Influence as a Continuum: How Russia Shapes Georgia’s Information Environment
Appoline Roy
French Institute of Geopolitics / GEODE (Geopolitics of the Datasphere)
EISS 2025Poster session / Coffee break
Do Principles Become Agents? Security Assistance between cooptation and orchestration
Jean Marie Reure
University of Genoa
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 1: Studies in (Re)alignments
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Does Preeminence in Emerging and Military Technologies Matter for International Status and Prestige? Experimental Study
Zakir Rzazade
Charles University
EISS 2025Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Dynamics of Defense Indigenization: state-private relations in India’s quest for self-reliance
Yagnyashri Kodaru
LMU Munich
EISS 2025Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Examining the Factors Behind the EU’s Defence Innovation System
Cezary Wereszko
University of Nottingham
EISS 2025Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Following the Algorithmic Path to Extremism: How Social Network Analysis Can Help to Target Extremist Content Online
Clara Jammot
King’s College London - Department of War Studies
EISS 2025Poster session / Coffee break
From Revolt to Rule: Insurgency as Proto-State Formation
Marnix Provoost
Netherlands Defense Academy
EISS 2025Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Geopolitical Europe: The European Union as a signaling actor in the Russia-Ukraine war
Nicolas Blarel, Niels Van Willigen
Leiden University
EISS 2025European Transformations in the Organization of Security
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Helping your friends in need? Military Interventions and the Reliability of Defense Cooperation Agreements
Margit Bussmann, Maximilian Krebs
University of Greifswald
EISS 2025Military Interventions
Military interventions
Informal is the New Normal: Command and Control as the Choice for the Functional Source of Security Commitment
Joseph Christian Agbagala
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 2: New Research Directions
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Infrastructural frontlines of (dis)information: data territoriality in the Russian war against Ukraine
Louis Petiniaud
GEODE - French Institute of Geopolitics, Paris 8 University
EISS 2025Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Innovation and engineering at the front: the Ukrainian case of Unmanned System
Emilie Berthelsen
Royal Danish Defence College & Technical University of Denmark
EISS 2025Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Negotiation of front ends and back ends in NATO military advisory missions
Anders Klitmøller, Anne Obling
The Royal Danish Defence College
EISS 2025Military Interventions
Military interventions
Online military influencers in a social media age
Anders Puck Nielsen
Royal Danish Defence College
EISS 2025Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Overlapping Ownership and Foreign Competition in Early-Stage Innovation: Evidence from Cross-Border Investment into Mature Venture Capital Markets
Nicholas Bahrich
ETH Zurich
EISS 2025Poster session / Coffee break
Paradigm Paradox: How Emerging Cybersecurity Communities Moderate EU Governance
Hannah-Sophie Weber
University of Oxford
EISS 2025European Transformations in the Organization of Security
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Private military companies as proxy forces in international politics with special reference to the Russian Wagner Group/African Corps and its operations in Africa
Theo Neethling
University of the Free State
EISS 2025Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Reanimating Grand Strategy in Volatile Times
Alexander Evans
London School of Economics
EISS 2025War and Strategy
Reassessing European Security: The drivers of NATO’s response to hybrid threats since 2014
Laura Lisboa
Sciences Po Paris
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 3: Reforms in European Security
Defence cooperation and military assistanceEuropean and transatlantic security
Regulatory Asymmetries in Cryptocurrency Governance: Implications for Sanctions Evasion
Orfeas Anastasios Koidi
Rijkuniversiteit Groningen
EISS 2025Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Russian Countertrade as a Mechanism for Promoting Arms Sales and Diplomatic Influence
Jonata Anicetti, Shang-Su Wu, Ron Matthews
LISD, Princeton University · Rabdan Academy · Cranfield University
EISS 2025Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Small State Defense Cooperation and Security Strategies in a Changing Global Order
Revecca Pedi
University of Macedonia
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 2: New Research Directions
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Strategic Stability Without Arms Control
Jamie Withorne
Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo
EISS 2025Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Sweden and the League of Nations: The partisan contestation of national identity and collective security
Zigne Edström
Stockholm University
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 2: New Research Directions
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The “Transparent Battlefield” and its Implications for Western Movement and Maneuver Warfighting
Friso Stevens
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
EISS 2025Military Interventions
Military interventions
The Delegation of Defense and Security Responsibilities at Sea in Historical Perspective
Pieter Zhao
Erasmus University Rotterdam
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 1: Studies in (Re)alignments
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The Erosion of Traditional Deterrence: Space as a Case Study in Military Transformation
Raoul Cardellini Leipertz
LUMSA University
EISS 2025Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
The EU’s Collective Defence Framework: A Law-in-Context Analysis of Article 42.7 TEU Amid the War in Ukraine
Federica Fazio
Dublin City University
EISS 2025Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance 3: Reforms in European Security
Defence cooperation and military assistanceEuropean and transatlantic security
The Resistance Operating Concept’s Deterrent to Impress: Distinct Causal Theories of Success
Martijn Rouvroije
Netherlands Defence Academy - Faculty of Military Sciences
EISS 2025Military Interventions
Military interventions
The Soviet Union/Russia and the spread of the bomb
Lydia Wachs
Stockholm University
EISS 2025Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Strategy of Subversion: National Security between Warfare and Diplomacy
Henrik Breitenbauch, Niels Byrjalsen
Royal Danish Defence College · University of Copenhagen
EISS 2025War and Strategy
The Universalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Lessons from the CWC and BWC and the Role of Customary International Law
Agata Bidas
University of Vienna
EISS 2025Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
We Are Peers Now: States’ Relations with Violent Non-State Actors That Became State/Sub-State Actors
Ido Gadi Raz
Hebrew University
EISS 2025Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
What’s Got You So Worried? The Replicator Initiative and US Techno-Anxieties in an Age of Great Power Competition
Tom Watts
Royal Holloway, University of London (Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow)
EISS 2025Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
"In the mind of the beholder": a study on coercion and the choice of coercive instruments
Chiara Boldrini
Università di Bologna
EISS 2024Poster Session / Coffee Break
AI, private corporate experts, and the competence-control dilemma in military innovation: Explaining reconfigurations of the national security state
Andrea Johansen, Andreas Kruck
Ludwig Maximilians University
EISS 2024Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Artificial Intelligence and Non-linearity: An Analysis of the Limitations of Statistical Learning AI in Warfare
Alessandra Russo
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
EISS 2024Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Bioarchaeological approaches to gendered violence in prehistoric Europe
Linda Fibiger
University of Edinburgh
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 3: The Origins of War & Diplomacy: Insights from Archaeology
Theoretical developments in security studies
Business power and the quiet politics of military innovation in cyberspace
Moritz Weiss
LMU Munich
EISS 2024Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Can there be a responsible nuclear weapon state? Understanding the agency and moral relevance of nuclear weapons
Tim Thies
University of Hamburg
EISS 2024Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Strategy in the Third Nuclear Age
Deterrence
Changing Expertise: Knowledge Production through Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain
Alies Jansen
Leiden University
EISS 2024Knowledge Production on War
Theoretical developments in security studies
Chimpanzee communication in conflict and cooperation: Implications for the evolution of language
Katie Slocombe
University of York
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 2: The Peace/Violence Paradox: The Evolution of Language & Self-Domestication
Theoretical developments in security studies
Clothing and deception in forager warfare
William Buckner
University College London
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 4: The Origins of War & Diplomacy: Insights from Ethnography
Theoretical developments in security studies
Contesting 'Zeitenwende': Political Contestation and Partisan Entrapment
Marius Ghincea
European University Institute
EISS 2024Military Interventions
Military interventions
Cooperation and conflict in chimpanzees and bonobos
Liran Samuni
German Primate Center, Göttingen
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 1: Cooperation & Conflict in the Natural World
Defence Offsets and the Global Arms Trade: Explaining Cross-National Variations
Jonata Anicetti
Metropolitan University Prague
EISS 2024Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Developing digital peripheries for strategic advantage: Competitive cyber capacity building assistance initiatives in Africa
Julia Carver
Oxford University
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Envisioning Critical Strategic Studies
Chiara Libiseller, Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Leiden University
EISS 2024Knowledge Production on War
Theoretical developments in security studies
EU's Use of Private Military and Security Companies' Services: Filling the Capabilities- and Consensus-Expectation Gaps?
Oldrich Bures, Eugenio Cusumano
Metropolitan University Prague · Università degli Studi di Messina
EISS 2024Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
European defence policy changes in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine: a 'wake-up call' in practice?
Michelle Haas
Ghent University
EISS 2024Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance 2
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Exploring how the emotion of interest shapes strategic studies scholarship (and how we can make the most of it)
Samuel Zilincik, Dagmar Ludackova
University of Defence, Czech Republic
EISS 2024Knowledge Production on War
Theoretical developments in security studies
Exploring the cybersecurity policy design space in the EU: a mixed methods approach based on machine-learning techniques
Mattia Sguazzini
University of Genova
EISS 2024Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Foreign policy before the State: Diplomatic practices in prehistory
Hugo Meijer
Sciences Po-CERI / EISS
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 4: The Origins of War & Diplomacy: Insights from Ethnography
Theoretical developments in security studies
Guarding the Maritime Highways: Europe's Role in the Indo-Pacific
Paul van Hooft, Benedetta Girardi, Davis Ellison, Tim Sweijs
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
EISS 2024Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from the EU
Regional security and area studies
Hybrid axis of evil. Policing of organised crime and state threats in global ports
Yarin Eski
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
EISS 2024Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Inter-alliance Security Dilemmas: Korean Counterforce Systems and Their Effect on the Sino-American Nuclear Competition
Samuel Seitz
Oxford University
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Intergroup conflict in humans and other species
Carsten De Dreu
Leiden University
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 1: Cooperation & Conflict in the Natural World
International military assistance: a historical and conceptual genealogy
Thibault Fouillet
Institut d'Etudes de Stratégie et de Défense, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
EISS 2024Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance 2
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Investigating Perspectives of (In)Security of Affected Individuals in Afghanistan under The Taliban Rule: A Vernacular Security Approach
Mohammad Mahdi Iraj
Nagoya University
EISS 2024Poster Session / Coffee Break
Keynote address
Michael Kofman
Center for Naval Analyses
Joint Conference on the War in Ukraine 2024Keynote
Military intervention in foreign policy-making: Principal-agent analysis of US troop withdrawal from Korea, 1977-1979
Juhong Park
University of Bath
EISS 2024Military Interventions
Military interventions
Multilateral Maritime Exercises and Strategic Change: The American Case and Beyond
Peter Dombrowski, Simon Reich
U.S. Naval War College · Sciences Po / Rutgers
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Navigating the Indo-Pacific: A Comparative Analysis of ASEAN and Quad Frameworks
Giorgia Piovesan
University of Glasgow
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Organizational Lineage and the Diffusion of Lethal and Non-Lethal Information between Armed Groups
Evan Perkoski
University of Connecticut
EISS 2024Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Predicting East Asian Security Competition in the 21st Century: A Regional Approach
Chelsea Thorpe
Cambridge University
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age: New evidence from NATO countries
Ondřej Rosendorf, Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka
IFSH & PRCP · Charles University
EISS 2024Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Strategy in the Third Nuclear Age
Deterrence
Roundtable contribution
Alexander Lanoszka, Frans Osinga, Hanna Shelest, Justin Massie, Maria Popova, Oxana Shevel
University of Waterloo · War Studies Research Center & Netherlands Defence Academy & Leiden University · Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism" & Ukraine Analytica · University of Québec in Montreal · McGill University · Tufts University
Joint Conference on the War in Ukraine 2024Roundtable 1: Military Lessons Learned
Russian nuclear roulette? Elites and public debates on nuclear weapons in Moscow after Ukraine
Lydia Wachs
Stockholm University
EISS 2024Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Strategy in the Third Nuclear Age
Deterrence
Sino-Russian joint military exercises in focus: New strategic confluences in the Asia-Pacific
Jerome Gapany
Military Academy at ETH Zurich
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Small Islands, Big Potential: A Taiwan Contingency, Alliance Politics, and the Defence of Remote Islands with Large Stake
Takuya Matsuda, Elliot Ji
University of Tokyo · Princeton University
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Stigmatizing State Sponsors of Terrorism: An Evaluation of Feasibility
Müberra Dinler
Charles University
EISS 2024Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Strategic sensemaking: Scanning the military technological edge
Henrik Breitenbauch, Jens Vesterlund Mathiesen
Royal Danish Defence College
EISS 2024Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Structuring the Use of Securitization by Violent Non-state Actors
Ido Gadi Raz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
EISS 2024Poster Session / Coffee Break
Technocratic view of nuclear sharing
Michal Onderco
Erasmus University
EISS 2024Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Technological Innovation and national security: Variations in public-private relations in the defense and cybersecurity sectors
Yagnyashri Kodaru, Lorenz Sommer
LMU
EISS 2024Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
Arms acquisition and transferPolitical economy of security
Temporal Disparities in Intergenerational Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence and Climate Change
Franziska Stärk
University of Hamburg
EISS 2024Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Eternal Promise of Missile Defense
Sanne Verschuren
Boston University
EISS 2024Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Strategy in the Third Nuclear Age
Deterrence
The EU in the Indo-Pacific: a security actor sui generis
Eva Pejsova
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
EISS 2024Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from the EU
Regional security and area studies
The EU's naval signalling in the Indo-Pacific
Nicolas Blarel, Niels van Willigen
Leiden University
EISS 2024Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from the EU
Regional security and area studies
The Evolutionary Anthropology of War
Richard Wrangham
Harvard University
EISS 2024Keynote: The Evolutionary Anthropology of War (Hybrid & Recorded)
The financing of contemporary mercenarism: resources, routes, and regulation
Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito, Sorcha MacLeod
University of Twente · University of Copenhagen
EISS 2024Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
The inadmissibility of nuclear threats – norm or empty promise?
Maren Vieluf
University of Innsbruck
EISS 2024Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The peace/violence paradox in the human species: implications for international relationships
Richard Wrangham
Harvard University
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 2: The Peace/Violence Paradox: The Evolution of Language & Self-Domestication
Theoretical developments in security studies
The Re-Emergence of Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zones in an Era of Heightened Conflict
Janani Mohan
Cambridge University
EISS 2024Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Resilient Body of the State: Imaginary of Cohesive Society in PVE and Countering Hybrid Threats
Jan Daniel
Institute of International Relations, Prague
EISS 2024Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
The Role of Narratives in Radicalisation: A Critical Examination of Causality and Agency
Unaesah Rahmah
Leiden University
EISS 2024Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
The Utility of Foreign Volunteers in Ukraine
EISS 2024Military Interventions
Military interventions
Toward a Novel Conception of Naval Strategy for Small Countries
Friso Stevens
University of Helsinki
EISS 2024Actors, Interests and Interdependencies in East Asian Security Competition
Regional security and area studies
Trapped in the Strategic Trilemma: Ukraine's role in the Black Sea region (2014-2024)
Viktoriia Vdovychenko, Marc De Vore
Cambridge University · St Andrews University
EISS 2024Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance 2
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Unwritten testimony from the past: Uncovering evidence of prehistoric violence and warfare
Christopher Knüsel
University of Bordeaux
Joint Sciences Po–EISS Conference 2024Panel 3: The Origins of War & Diplomacy: Insights from Archaeology
Theoretical developments in security studies
Virtually inconceivable? Foregrounding the ontological dimension to cyber strategic studies
Julia Carver
Oxford University
EISS 2024Knowledge Production on War
Theoretical developments in security studies
When Does Vladimir Putin Send Troops to Fight Abroad?
Simon Saradzhyan
Harvard University
EISS 2024Military Interventions
Military interventions
Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds: U.S. Reassurance During the Russo-Ukrainian War
Alexander Lanoszka, Stephen Herzog, Lauren Sukin
University of Waterloo · ETH Zurich / Harvard Kennedy School · LSE
EISS 2024Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance 2
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Winning the Battle of Adaptation
Kristen Harkness, Marc DeVore
University of St Andrews
EISS 2024Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Zachariah Parcels & Michel Wyss contribution
Zachariah Parcels, Michel Wyss
Purdue University · Military Academy at ETH Zurich
EISS 2024Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
A Lesser Evil: Why Democracies Struggle to Respond to Cyber-Enabled Election Interference
Arthur Laudrain
University of Oxford
EISS 2023Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
A Quiet Place: Assessing SSBN Vulnerability in the Arctic Ocean
Nicholas Blanchette
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EISS 2023Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Cold War NATO: How Changes in Alliance Membership, Technology, and Strategic Dynamics Affect Defence and Deterrence in Europe?
Defence cooperation and military assistanceDeterrence
Alliance Cohesion and Military Manoeuvres: A Signal of Deterrence or Assurance?
Margit Bussmann
University of Greifswald
EISS 2023Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Alliance Formation and Rebel Co-Governance in North-East Syria: The Case of the PYD and the Syriac Union Party
Andrea Novellis
University of Milan
EISS 2023Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Apartheid South Africa's Intelligence Failures: Angola 1975, and Beyond
Kyle Harmse
Stanford University
EISS 2023Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from Beyond the Anglo-Sphere
Intelligence
Arms Purchases in the Baltic States and Transfers to Ukraine: Balancing National Security Interests
Donatas Palavenis
Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology
EISS 2023Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Between Manipulation and Failed Adaptation: The Italian Intelligence and the Rise of Right-Wing Terrorism, 1969-1982
Niccolò Petrelli
Roma Tre University
EISS 2023Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from Beyond the Anglo-Sphere
Intelligence
Bringing the Troops Back Home: A Strategy Adaptation Under Adverse Conditions
Matus Halas
Institute of International Relations, Prague
EISS 2023Military Interventions
Military interventions
Can Passions Help to Justify War? The Case of Revenge and Fear
Marie Robin
Université Paris Panthéon-Assas
EISS 2023Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Changing Threat Perceptions and American Grand Strategy: Evidence from Maritime Military Exercises
Peter Dombrowski, Simon Reich
U.S. Naval War College · Rutgers / Sciences Po
EISS 2023Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Civilian Control Of The Military: Performance Management Reforms And Its Effects On The Military Profession In Sweden
Sofia Ledberg
Swedish Defence University
EISS 2023Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Cognitive Warfare as Part of Society: A Never-Ending Battle for Minds
Robin Burda
Masaryk University
EISS 2023Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Credibility in Crises: How Patrons Reassure in Crises
Lauren Sukin
London School of Economics and Political Science
EISS 2023Alliance Management
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Criminal Governance Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico
Lucia Tiscornia
University College Dublin
EISS 2023(In)security and Organized Crime in Latin America
Regional security and area studies
Development Aid, Humanitarian Assistance, and Criminal Violence: A "Triple Nexus" for Central America's Northern Triangle?
Pablo Kalmanovitz
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
EISS 2023(In)security and Organized Crime in Latin America
Regional security and area studies
Effects of Open Source Satellite Imagery on Nuclear Verification
Alexander Bollfrass, Stephen Herzog
ETH Zurich
EISS 2023Intelligence
Intelligence
Engine or Brake? The Franco-German Couple and the Future of the European Defence Industry
Antonio Calcara
University of Antwerp
EISS 2023Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
EU Arms Collaboration and Procurement: The Impact of the War in Ukraine
Jonata Anicetti
Metropolitan University Prague
EISS 2023Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
European Approaches to Chinese Foreign Policy: a Text-as-Data Approach
Jordan Becker, Andreea Budeanu, Haemin Jee, Maxwell Love
Brussels School of Governance · United States Military Academy, West Point
EISS 2023European Security
European and transatlantic security
From the Bottom-Up: AI and Military Officers in Defence Alliances
Vicky Karyoti
Swedish Institute of International Affairs
EISS 2023Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
How Russia's War on Ukraine has an Impact on the EU's Nuclear Disarmament Policy
Aderito Vicente
Odesa Center for Nonproliferation
EISS 2023Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
In the Crevices of the State: Criminal Governance in Uruguay
Lucia Tiscornia
University College Dublin
EISS 2023Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Industries of Sovereignty: Strategic Autonomy, Defence Industrial Interests and the French Government's Use of the "European Sovereignty" Discourse in EU Politics (2017-22)
Salih Isik Bora, Ediz Topcuoglu
Sciences Po · College of Europe
EISS 2023Re-Visiting the Political Economy of Security
Political economy of security
Intelligence under Dictatorship and Democracy
Zakia Shiraz
Leiden University
EISS 2023Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from Beyond the Anglo-Sphere
Intelligence
Mightier Yet?: Explaining British Military Underconfidence in Reference to Anglo-American Alliance Formation
Sylvain Thoni
Radboud University
EISS 2023Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Military Assistance Within the Framework of the Defence of the Liberal International Order: How Does Military Assistance to Ukraine Fit into US Grand Strategy?
Rocío Vales Calderón
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
EISS 2023Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Must the Drone Always Get Through? Coercion and One-Way Attack UAVs in Ukraine and Yemen
Marcel Plichta, Ash Rossiter
University of St Andrews · Khalifa University
EISS 2023Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
NATO and Multi-Domain Operations: Between Deterrence and Conflict
Mauro Gilli, Andrea Gilli, Nina Silove
ETH Zurich · NATO Defence College
EISS 2023Alliance Management
Defence cooperation and military assistance
NATO's Nordic Neophytes: Sweden and Finland's Accession to NATO
Samuel Seitz, Julia Carver
University of Oxford
EISS 2023Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Cold War NATO: How Changes in Alliance Membership, Technology, and Strategic Dynamics Affect Defence and Deterrence in Europe?
Defence cooperation and military assistanceDeterrence
NGO-Military Cooperation And Civilian Protection Policies
Daphné Charotte, Francesca Colli, Yf Reykers
Maastricht University
EISS 2023Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Not War Nor Peace: Regulating the Use of Force in the Context of Large-Scale Criminal
Miriam Bradley
University of Manchester
EISS 2023(In)security and Organized Crime in Latin America
Regional security and area studies
Numbers, Prediction and Cyberwar: Why Integrating the Cyber Domain in Kinetic Wargames Is So Difficult and What Can Be Done
Peadar Callaghan
Games Lab, Tallinn University
EISS 2023Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
On the Institutional Battlefield of Intelligence Oversight: The Case of Questioned Democratic Accountability in The Danish Intelligence Services
Melanie Hartvigsen
University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2023Intelligence
Intelligence
Outsourcing Security, Managing Risk: National Security States and the Privatisation of Defence Research
Kaija Schilde
Boston University
EISS 2023Re-Visiting the Political Economy of Security
Political economy of security
Overcoming Obstacles: Reflections on Creating a Cross-National Experimental Cyber Security Research
Ayhan Gucuyener
Kadir Has University
EISS 2023Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Parliamentary Acceptance of EU Military Operations in Member States: Beyond Rubber-stamping?
Eva Michaels, Robert Kissack, Oscar Fernandez
IBEI
EISS 2023European Security
European and transatlantic security
Populist Publics and Nuclear Weapons: Does Populism Predict Higher Nuclear Use Willingness, but also Opposition to Nuclear Sharing?
Tom Etienne, Michal Onderco, Sandra Destradi, Andre Krouwel
University of Pennsylvania · Erasmus University Rotterdam · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · VU University Amsterdam
EISS 2023Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Proliferation-Related Legislation in the EU: Is There a Need for Further Convergence?
Barry de Vries
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
EISS 2023Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Re-Bordering NATO: the Strategic Dilemmas of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Maria Sofia Macedo
Independent Researcher
EISS 2023Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Cold War NATO: How Changes in Alliance Membership, Technology, and Strategic Dynamics Affect Defence and Deterrence in Europe?
Defence cooperation and military assistanceDeterrence
Rebel Governance as Self-Legitimation: The FARC's Justifications of Governance
Wolfgang Minatti
European University Institute
EISS 2023Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Resident Resistance: The Territorial Logic of Denouncing Organized Crime Groups in Rio de Janeiro
Nicholas Barnes
University of St Andrews
EISS 2023Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
The Allied Defence Dilemma: Balancing between Autonomy and Alliance Cohesion
Lotje Boswinkel
Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels
EISS 2023Alliance Management
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The Approach-Avoidance Tension: A Fundamental Question of Military
Samuel Zilincik
Masaryk / Leiden University
EISS 2023Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
The Complexity of the Grey-Zone: The Experience of Military Intelligence on NATO's North-Eastern Flank
Bram Spoor, Sebastiaan Rietjens, Erik De Waard
Joint Istar Command, Netherlands Army & Netherlands Defence Academy · Netherlands Defence Academy and Leiden University · Netherlands Defence Academy
EISS 2023Intelligence
Intelligence
The Failure Before 1973: Israel's Intelligence Failure in 1967
Gil-li Vardi
Stanford University
EISS 2023Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from Beyond the Anglo-Sphere
Intelligence
The Intelligence Community as a Normative Actor under International Law
Sophie Duroy
KFG Berlin-Potsdam Research Group
EISS 2023Intelligence
Intelligence
The Normative Power of the Factual: How State Practice Shapes Understandings About Direct Public Political Attribution of Cyber Operations
Christina Rupp
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
EISS 2023Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
The Politics of Sympathy Among NATO Member States
Simon Koschut
Zeppelin University
EISS 2023European Security
European and transatlantic security
The Psychological, Social, and Strategic Value of Care During Crises and its Limits
Claire Yorke
University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2023Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
The Role of National Secondments for Intelligence Support to EU Foreign Policymaking
Daniel Neumann
King's College London
EISS 2023European Security
European and transatlantic security
The Russian Invasion and the Changing Character of Proxy War: Toward a Comprehensive Framework
Michel Wyss
Military Academy at ETH Zurich
EISS 2023Military Interventions
Military interventions
The Shock of the Old in the Russo-Ukraine War? Misunderstanding Continuity, Change and Adaptation of Military Technology Under Fire
Brendan Flynn
University of Galway / Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
EISS 2023Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
The United States and the Eternal Dream of Missile Defence
Sanne Verschuren
Sciences Po Paris
EISS 2023Re-Visiting the Political Economy of Security
Political economy of security
The US Hegemony Dilemma and European Missile Production
Lucas Hellemeier
FU Berlin
EISS 2023Re-Visiting the Political Economy of Security
Political economy of security
US Preponderance in NATO: The Role of Logistics, Intelligence, Training, Cyber, and Coordination
Alexandra Chinchilla, Jordan Becker, Stephen Brooks, Hugo Meijer, William Wohlforth
Texas A&M University · United States Military Academy, West Point · Dartmouth College · Sciences Po
EISS 2023Alliance Management
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Violent and Non-Violent Mobilization in Criminal Wars: Current Determinants and Historical Legacies
Juan Masullo
Leiden University
EISS 2023(In)security and Organized Crime in Latin America
Regional security and area studies
What are Defence Agencies Supposed To Do? Oversee or Protect The Armed Force
Stephen Saideman
Carleton University
EISS 2023Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Who Supports Policy Interventions to Terminate Civil Wars? Survey Evidence from The United States and Germany
Martijn Vlaskamp
IBEI
EISS 2023Military Interventions
Military interventions
Winning by Adapting: Battlefield Adaptation in the Long Russo-Ukrainian War
Marc DeVore, Taras Fedirko, Kristen Harkness, Michael Hunzeker
University of St Andrews · University of Glasgow · George Mason University
EISS 2023Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
'Aiding and Assisting' Atrocity Crimes? Britain's Prevention Paradox in Yemen
Gillian McKay
University of Leeds
EISS 2022Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
A Source of Escalation or a Source of Restraint? Whether and How Civil Society Affects Mass Killings
Erica Chenoweth, Evan Perkoski
Harvard University · University of Connecticut
EISS 2022Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Between the Scylla of 'Ontological Lethargy' and the Charybdis of 'Epistemological Terrorism': Revisiting the critical vs orthodox divide in Terrorism Studies
Andreas Gofas
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens
EISS 2022Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Blurring the Lines: Sovereignty and Consent in the Fight against Terrorism
Renée de Nevers
Syracuse University
EISS 2022Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Business as Usual or New Forms of Collaboration? Non-State Actors in UN Cybercrime Governance
Lena Herbst
Technical University Braunschweig
EISS 2022Cybercrime and International Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Carpe Diem: When Foreign Sponsors Intervene Directly in Civil War
Giuseppe Spatafora
University of Oxford
EISS 2022External Sponsorship and Conflict Intervention
Military interventions
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits and Implications
Max Smeets
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
EISS 2022Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Deciphering International Punishment: Literary, Legal and Political Insights from the Global South
Siddharth Mallavarapu
Shiv Nadar University
EISS 2022Norm Violation, Sanctions, and the Punitive Use of Force
Military interventions
Does Russian Antagonistic Strategic Narration Trigger Destabilising Psychological Effects? An Experimental Study in Sweden and the Netherlands
Aiden Hoyle
University of Amsterdam
EISS 2022Foreign Information Influence as an (Inter)National Security Threat
Domestic Operations and Outsourcing of Security. What Implications for the Military?
Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
University of Genoa
EISS 2022Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Drone Use in Ukraine: Claims and Implications
James Page
Durham University and University of St Andrews
EISS 2022Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
European Arms Collaboration All at Sea? Competition and Co-operation Over Global Naval Exports
Brendan Flynn
National University of Ireland Galway
EISS 2022Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
How RT and Sputnik Cover the News in Mali: a Textual Analysis of Russia's Information Influence in Francophone Africa
Maxime Audinet
Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM)
EISS 2022Foreign Information Influence as an (Inter)National Security Threat
Ideology and Risk: The Neuroscience of Nuclear Reversal
Rupal N. Mehta, Noelle Troutman
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
EISS 2022Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em: Conceptualizing Non-State Armed Group Interaction
Michel Wyss
Leiden University & Military Academy at ETH Zurich
EISS 2022External Sponsorship and Conflict Intervention
Military interventions
Military Assistance and National Security
Kersti Larsdotter
Swedish Defence University
EISS 2022Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Military Expenditure, External Threats and Fiscal Consolidation: A Survey Experiment in Italy
Alessia Aspide, Jordan Becker, Matthew Di Giuseppe
Leiden University · USMA West Point
EISS 2022Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Military Professionalism under Political Polarization
Lindsay Cohn
US Naval War College
EISS 2022Military Professionalism in Crisis: The Present and Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
News Media and (In)Security in Ukrainian Border Regions: An Assessment of Threats and Vulnerabilities
Joanna Szostek
Glasgow University
EISS 2022Foreign Information Influence as an (Inter)National Security Threat
Norm Violations and Punishment Beyond the Nation-State. Normative Orders, Authority, and Conflict in International Society
Wolfgang Wagner
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
EISS 2022Norm Violation, Sanctions, and the Punitive Use of Force
Military interventions
On the Peace and Security Implications of Cybercrime – The Need for an Integrated Approach
Jantje Silomon
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
EISS 2022Cybercrime and International Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Punishment, Panopticum and the Contingency of Legal Norms - A Legal-Philosophical Perspective of the War in Ukraine
Cornelia Baciu
University of Copenhagen
EISS 2022Norm Violation, Sanctions, and the Punitive Use of Force
Military interventions
Rules, Expertise, and the Rise of the Regulatory Security State
Andreas Kruck, Moritz Weiss
LMU Munich
EISS 2022Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
Russia's Way of War: Comparing Russian Strategy and Operations in Ukraine and Syria
Nicolò Fasola
University of Birmingham
EISS 2022Military Interventions
Military interventions
Sanctions and the Authority of Legitimate Punishment in International Politics
Elin Hellquist
Stockholm University
EISS 2022Norm Violation, Sanctions, and the Punitive Use of Force
Military interventions
Technology as Status Anchor: How Russia Perceives Artificial Intelligence
Anna Nadibaidze
University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2022Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
The Adaptation Cascade: The Global Diffusion of All-Female Military Units in Military Interventions
Cristina Fontanelli
University of Genoa
EISS 2022Military Interventions
Military interventions
The Democratic Military in Internal Missions: Professionalism in an Era of Climate, Health and Humanitarian Crises
Risa Brooks
Marquette University
EISS 2022Military Professionalism in Crisis: The Present and Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
The Human Dignity Case Against Administrative Detention
Eden Lapidor
Georgetown University Law Center
EISS 2022Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
The Impact of Commercial Military Actors on Armed Conflict Termination, 1980–2010
Ulrich Petersohn, Leila Kellgren Parker
University of Liverpool
EISS 2022Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
The Lesser Evil? Experimental Evidence on Nuclear and Chemical Weapon 'Taboos'
Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka, Ondrej Rosendorf
Charles University · Peace Research Center Prague
EISS 2022Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Logic of Diaspora Sponsorship to Rebel Organizations
Sara Daub
Hertie School
EISS 2022External Sponsorship and Conflict Intervention
Military interventions
The Migration-Defence Nexus: Unravelling the Effect of Migration on Defence Efforts in the Transatlantic Community
Daphné Charotte
Maastricht University
EISS 2022Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The Online Reception of Russia and Chinese News Coverage of the US 2020 Election
Thomas Colley
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
EISS 2022Foreign Information Influence as an (Inter)National Security Threat
The Possible Impact of Sole Purpose Policy on the NATO Alliance
Aylin Matlé
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
EISS 2022Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The UN Cybercrime Negotiations: Harmonisation and Universality or Polarisation and Fragmentation?
Tatiana Tropina
Leiden University
EISS 2022Cybercrime and International Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
The Uneasy Relation of Proxy War and States' Interests. Pursuing Strategic Opportunities in Civil Wars
Natalia Tellidou
European University Institute
EISS 2022External Sponsorship and Conflict Intervention
Military interventions
The US Rebalancing from Europe to the Indo-Pacific: Risks for Deterrence Failure and Inadvertent Escalation
Paul van Hooft
Hague Centre for Strategic Studies/Royal Dutch Military Academy
EISS 2022Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Trade-Offs in the Use of Military Power: Lessons Learned from French Military Operations Abroad
Olivier Schmitt
University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2022Military Interventions
Military interventions
Un-Hyping Hypersonic Weapons
Dominika Kunertova
ETH Zurich
EISS 2022Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Understanding NATO Entanglement in Non-Member Conflicts: Evidence from Bosnia, 1993-95
Stefano Recchia
Southern Methodist University
EISS 2022Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Unpacking Cyber Affordances in the Context of State-Cybercrime: A Criminological Perspective
Anita Lavorgna
University of Southampton
EISS 2022Cybercrime and International Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
USA, 'Military Politics on the Battlefield: Strategy and Effectiveness in War'
Carrie Lee
US Army War College
EISS 2022Military Professionalism in Crisis: The Present and Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Veterans, Novices, and Patterns of Rebel Recruitment
Evan Perkoski
University of Connecticut
EISS 2022Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Visualizing American Military Interventions Abroad
Hubert Zimmermann
University of Marburg
EISS 2022Military Interventions
Military interventions
What Does Military Professionalism Mean? A Contested Concept in the Post-Heroic Society
Kristine Eck, Chiara Ruffa
Uppsala University · Swedish Defence University
EISS 2022Military Professionalism in Crisis: The Present and Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Why States Arm – and Why They Sometimes Do So Together
Ulrich Krotz, Jonata Anicetti
Sciences Po · Metropolitan University Prague
EISS 2022Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
A Post-Liberal Age of Security? Authoritarian Interventionism in the Middle East and Northern Africa
Hanna Pfeifer
HSFK Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
EISS 2021Military Interventions
Military interventions
American Strategies of Retrenchment versus Inhibition
Paul van Hooft
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EISS 2021WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
An Indian Perspective on Security and the Use of Force: The Case of the Responsibility to Protect
Raphaëlle Khan
IRSEM-University of Pennsylvania
EISS 2021Thinking European Security through India
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Analyzing Small States' Use of Military Power: From Ends-Ways-Means to Objectives, Frameworks and Capabilities
Jan Werner Mathiasen
Royal Danish Defence College
EISS 2021European Defense and Security
European and transatlantic security
Arms Without Influence? Defense Industrial Policy and Burden-Sharing in the Transatlantic Community
Jordan Becker
Vrije Universiteit Brussel/US Army
EISS 2021Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Autonomous Weapons Systems in International Law
Verena Jackson
Bundeswehr University Munich
EISS 2021Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Building the Best Tank: Institutions and the Choice to Embrace Radical Change
Marc DeVore
University of St Andrews
EISS 2021European Defense and Security
European and transatlantic security
Comparative Analysis of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Counter-Terrorism Efforts
Aybike Yalcin Ispir
Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
EISS 2021Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Crisis Management and Partnership Peacekeeping: Coordination Between the EU, AU, and UN
Maline Meiske
University of Oxford
EISS 2021European Defense and Security
European and transatlantic security
Downgrading or Upsizing Strategies: How Rebels Learn About the Right Repertoire of Violence
Luis De la Calle
CIDE, Mexico City; Carlos III University, Madrid
EISS 2021Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Dynamics of Cyber Proliferation
Max Smeets
ETH Zurich
EISS 2021Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
EU Military Capabilities in the Post-Cold War: A Response to Systemic Pressures
Bruna Rohr Reisdoerfer
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
EISS 2021Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
European Naval Procurement under Global Competition: Why So Underwhelming and Should We Think of It as Even 'European'?
Brendan Flynn
National University of Ireland Galway
EISS 2021Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
France and the United States interventionism in North Africa and in the Middle East in the 21st century: A Strategic Cross-Over?
Salomé Tulane
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
EISS 2021Military Interventions
Military interventions
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Non-State Armed Group-UN Interactions in Peace Operations
Jenniina Kotajoki
Uppsala University
EISS 2021Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
How Minilateralism Shapes NATO's Decision-Making Process
Christelle Calmels
Sciences Po
EISS 2021Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques
Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
University of Leiden
EISS 2021Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
India's New Security Approach to the European Union
Constantino Xavier
Centre for Social and Economic Progress – New Delhi
EISS 2021Thinking European Security through India
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Integration of Technical Exploitation in Military Organisations
Paul Oling, Paul van Fenema, Bas Rietjens
Joint IT Command of the Dutch Ministry of Defence · Netherlands Defence Academy
EISS 2021Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Intelligence Services and Hybrid Warfare: The Case of Ukraine
Jan Mericka
Czech Technical University
EISS 2021Intelligence
Intelligence
Live-Streaming of Terrorism: Context, Potential Effects and Challenges
Sandro Nickel
Aalborg University
EISS 2021Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Managing Assurance and Deterrence Demands in Heterogeneous Alliances: The Case of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Nuclear Sharing in NATO
Tobias Bunde
Hertie School of Governance
EISS 2021WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
NATO as a Nuclear Alliance
Andrew C. Carroll
Columbia University
EISS 2021WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Offsetting Brexit in Defence Cooperation: Trust Matters
Ben Kienzle, Richard Whitman, Mark Webber
King's College London · University of Kent · University of Birmingham
EISS 2021Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Opening the Black Box of Defence Procurement and Planning Processes: What Drives India to Develop International Defence Partnerships?
Nicolas Blarel
Leiden University
EISS 2021Thinking European Security through India
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Peacock in a Coal Mine: European Understanding of Environmental Loss in India
Damien Carrière
IRSEM-Paris 7 University
EISS 2021Thinking European Security through India
European and transatlantic securityRegional security and area studies
Plans are Worthless, But Planning is Everything
Nina Silove
ETH Zurich
EISS 2021WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Rethinking Intelligence Services: Learning from Society. Towards a Project of Shared Intelligence
Fernando Velasco
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
EISS 2021Intelligence
Intelligence
Security Studies 2020: Blindsided by Brexit?
Anne Deighton
University of Oxford
EISS 2021Keynote — Security Studies 2020: Blindsided by Brexit?
Slowly Moving Towards a European Defense? The Feasible Compromise between France and Germany in the post-Brexit Context
Alberto Cunha
King's College London
EISS 2021European Defense and Security
European and transatlantic security
Strategic Autonomy, European DTIB and Technological Complexity
Mauro Gilli, Zoe Stanley
ETH Zurich · Nanyang Technological University
EISS 2021Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Strategic Consequences of Tactical Alliances. The Case of the US-led Coalition Against Islamic State Allying with the Syrian Democratic Forces
Anne Sofie Schøtt
Royal Danish Defence College
EISS 2021Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
The Dilemma of Security Force Assistance: The Fight against Boko Haram, Military Aid, and Deepening Autocracy in Cameroon and Chad
Kristen Harkness
University of St Andrews
EISS 2021Military Interventions
Military interventions
The Proliferation of Military Drones in Europe – Not So Easy, Not So Cheap, but NATO and the EU Can Help
Dominika Kunertova
ETH Zürich
EISS 2021Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
The Rise of Cybersecurity Warriors?
Moritz Weiss
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
EISS 2021Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
The State Monopoly of Violence as Organized Hypocrisy: The Privatization of UN Peacekeeping Operations
Eugenio Cusumano, Oldrich Bures
University of Leiden · Metropolitan University Prague
EISS 2021Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private military actors
To What Extent EU's 'Effective Multilateralism' is An Adequate Mean to Counter Hybrid Threats?
Pascal Carlucci
University of Coventry
EISS 2021Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
What are They (T)asked to Do? Introducing the Peace Operations Mandates (POM) Dataset
Evgenija Kroeker
Oxford University
EISS 2021Military Interventions
Military interventions
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dual-use Goods?
Ana Sánchez Cobaleda
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
EISS 2021Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
A Case Study: Russia's Special Operations Command in Military Interventions
Emmanuel Dreyfus, Michael Gjerstad
Panthéon-Assas University/National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) · University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2019Military Interventions
Military interventions
A critical appraisal of Višegrad 4 Security Potential
Šárka Kolmašová
Metropolitan University, Prague
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session III
Al-Baghdadi's Revenge: Identifying the Strategic Value of Vengeance Narratives in the Islamic State's Propaganda
Marie Robin
Panthéon-Assas University/University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2019Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Analyzing the Individual Strategic Practices of Deployed Officers in Multilateral Military Operations: An Analytical Framework
Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen, Annemarie Peen Rodt Poucher
Royal Danish Defense College
EISS 2019Military Interventions
Military interventions
Between Power and Plenty: The New EU Defense-Industrial Initiatives and the Transatlantic Relationship
Antonio Calcara
LUISS Rome
EISS 2019Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Change in Burden-Sharing mind-set in NATO
Dominika Kunertova
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session III
China's Efforts in Civil-Military Integration and International Implications
Tai Ming Cheung
University of California San Diego
EISS 2019Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Citizens' attitudes to EDC in UK, France, and Germany
Thomas Scotto, Konstantin Gavras
University of Strathclyde · University of Mannheim
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session IV
Climate Change and the US Military: Changes and Continuities Under the Trump Administration
Adrien Estève
Sciences Po
EISS 2019Climate Change and Security Actors
Climate and security
Collaborative Arms Procurement
Marc De Vore
University of St Andrews
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session III
Converging and Conflicting Dynamics of Cooperation: European Security Efforts in Sahel
Silvia D'Amato
European University Institute
EISS 2019Military Interventions
Military interventions
Debating Military Interventions: Party-Political Patterns of Justifications for Using Armed Force in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wolfgang Wagner
Free University of Amsterdam
EISS 2019The Domestic Politics of Security and Defense
Discursive Practices and the Construction of Mercenaries as Illegitimate Fighters
Helene Olsen
King's College London
EISS 2019Private Actors, Armed Conflict, and the State
Private military actors
European Allies' response to the Trump Presidency
Mark Webber, Jens Ringsmose
University of Birmingham · University of Southern Denmark
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session I
European Perceptions of Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Trump and Putin and the Path to European Strategic Autonomy
Tara Varma
European Council of Foreign Relations
EISS 2019History and Prospect for a European Deterrent
DeterrenceEuropean and transatlantic security
Explaining the US Decision to enlarge NATO
Liviu Horovitz, Elias Götz
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels · Uppsala University, Sweden
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session II
Exports of Second-Hand Arms: Increasing the Competition for Arms Producing Firms
Eva Ziegler
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
EISS 2019Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Failing to Succeed: The KPz 70 and German Innovation in Armored Warfare, 1963-71
Michael Carl Haas
ETH Zurich
EISS 2019Military Innovation in the Long Peace
Transformations of warfare and conflict
France, European Defense and Deterrence Since the End of the Cold War
Guillaume de Rougé
École normale supérieure
EISS 2019History and Prospect for a European Deterrent
DeterrenceEuropean and transatlantic security
German View on a European Deterrent: the Cold War, and Prospects
Julia Berghofer
European Leadership Network
EISS 2019History and Prospect for a European Deterrent
DeterrenceEuropean and transatlantic security
Globalized Authoritarianism, Intelligence Cooperation and Transnational Repression
Fiona B. Adamson
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
EISS 2019Intelligence
Intelligence
Hostages and Counter-Terrorism: The Fallacies of the Realist Approach
Étienne Dignat
Sciences Po
EISS 2019Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Implications of the Current Frictions within the Alliance and the Further Build-up of European Defense for Nuclear Deterrence in Europe
Tom Sauer
University of Antwerpen
EISS 2019WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Inhibition or Control: European Autonomy and US Grand Strategy
Paul van Hooft
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
EISS 2019The Past, Present and Future of Transatlantic Security
European and transatlantic security
Introductory Remarks
Alain Dieckhoff, Hugo Meijer
Director of the Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po · Founding Director of the EISS, Sciences Po-CERI
EISS 2019Introductory Remarks
Is Pessimism Well-Founded? Intelligence Analysis and the Intentions of Competitor States
Andreas Lutsch
Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences
EISS 2019Intelligence
Intelligence
Keeping Pace: Technological Change and Military Innovation in the Italian Armed Forces
Leopoldo Nuti, Niccolò Petrelli
Roma Tre University
EISS 2019Military Innovation in the Long Peace
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Lifting Pooling and Sharing to a Higher Level: The European Air Transport Command
Carolyn Moser
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
EISS 2019Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Little Ado About Something: A Gender Perspective of EU and UN Counter-Terrorism Strategies
Laura Berlingozzi
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
EISS 2019Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Local State-Society Transformations and Everyday Security Provisioning in San Salvador
Chris van der Borgh
Utrecht University
EISS 2019Private Actors, Armed Conflict, and the State
Private military actors
Making the U.S. Defense Innovation Base More Effective in the Digital Arms Race with China: The Increasing Engagement of the Pentagon and Traditional Defense
James Cross
Franklin Venture Partners
EISS 2019Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Masculine Cultures, Exclusion Mechanisms and Retention of Female Personnel in the Military
Chiara Ruffa
Uppsala University
EISS 2019What Do You Want to Die For? Military Recruitment in Comparative Perspective
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Modelling the Role of 'Hype' in the Development Trajectory of 'Long-Fuse' Defense Technologies
Ash Rossiter
Khalifa University
EISS 2019Military Innovation in the Long Peace
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Money Rather Than Muscles: China's Approach to Post-Polar Arctic Security
Mikaa Mered
Free Institute for the Study of International Relations (ILERI)/NEOMA Business School
EISS 2019Climate Change and Security Actors
Climate and security
NATO disagreement on threat perception and strategic priorities
Wojciech Michnik
NATO Defense College, Rome
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session I
NATO, Emerging Technologies, and Future Warfare: Overcoming the Alliance's Strategic Dilemma
Olivier Schmitt
University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2019Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
NATO's 360o approach reflective of internal division
Christelle Calmels
Sciences Po, Paris
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session I
Negotiations with Terrorist Groups and the "No Talks" Paradigm
Anna Muehlhausen
University of Erfurt
EISS 2019Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Neoliberal Governmentality and Military Recruitment: Governing the Working Class Male Soldier
Matthew Kearns
Newcastle University
EISS 2019What Do You Want to Die For? Military Recruitment in Comparative Perspective
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Norway and the Arctic: Climate Policy and Energy Paradigm
Florian Vidal
Panthéon-Assas University
EISS 2019Climate Change and Security Actors
Climate and security
Not Whether but When: The Influence of Leaders on Foreign Policy
Jonas Schneider
ETH Zurich
EISS 2019The Domestic Politics of Security and Defense
Offshore Balancing, Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Hybrid Agencies of Democratic Warfare
Evren Eken, Eylem Ozkaya Lassalle
Suleyman Demirel University, Galatasaray
EISS 2019Private Actors, Armed Conflict, and the State
Private military actors
Parties, Exit and European Security and Defense
Stephanie Hofmann
Graduate Institute Geneva
EISS 2019The Domestic Politics of Security and Defense
Planning to Escalate to Deescalate: Military Alliances and Innovation during France's Cold War
Marc R. De Vore
University of St Andrews
EISS 2019Military Innovation in the Long Peace
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Private Diplomacy and Transatlantic Burden Sharing During Detente: A View from the Netherlands
Albertine Bloemendal
Leiden University
EISS 2019The Past, Present and Future of Transatlantic Security
European and transatlantic security
Pulling Back or Staying In? US Grand Strategic Options and their Implications for Europe
Stephen Brooks, Barry Posen
Dartmouth College · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EISS 2019Concluding Keynote Panel — Pulling Back or Staying In? US Grand Strategic Options and their Implications for Europe
Regionalization of Environmental Security and the Role of the Military: South Asia as a Case in Point
Dhanasree Jayaram
Manipal Academy of Higher Education/University of Lausanne
EISS 2019Climate Change and Security Actors
Climate and security
Reluctant to Intervene? The Ambiguous Politics of Peacekeeping in the Case of Emerging Powers
Nicole Jenne, Rafael Duarte Villa
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · Universidade de Sao Paulo
EISS 2019Military Interventions
Military interventions
Stronger Together? Austria's Strategy of Defense Cooperation
Laure Gallouet
University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
EISS 2019Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The British and German attitudes to Russia
Jonas Driedger
European University Institute, Florence
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session IV
The Discreet Evolution of Collective Defense within the European Union
Elie Perot
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
EISS 2019Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The Franco-German Security Dialogue as a First Step for a Deeper French European Engagement
Ilaria Parisi
École normale supérieure
EISS 2019History and Prospect for a European Deterrent
DeterrenceEuropean and transatlantic security
The Future of European Security Architecture: Back to Lady Thatcher and her Ententes
Liviu Horovitz
Johns Hopkins University
EISS 2019The Past, Present and Future of Transatlantic Security
European and transatlantic security
The Military-Entrepreneurial Complex: Commercial Innovation and State Access
Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
ETH Zurich
EISS 2019Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
The Normative Limits on Counter-violence by Discretionary States
Luis de la Calle
Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE)
EISS 2019Private Actors, Armed Conflict, and the State
Private military actors
The Political Economy of Drones on the European Defense Market
Dominika Kunertova
University of Southern Denmark
EISS 2019Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
The Politics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: The Carter Administration, the INFCE Program, and Italy
Giordana Pulcini
Roma Tre University
EISS 2019WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Rise of Illiberalism and Potential Paths to NATO's Disintegration
Tobias Bunde
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Joint Policy Workshop 2019Session II
The Sino-Russian Rapprochement and Its Implications for Europe
Simon Saradzhyan
King's College London
EISS 2019Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The Violation that Strengthens the Norm: India's 1974 Nuclear Explosion and the Global Nonproliferation Regime
Joseph O'Mahoney
University of Reading
EISS 2019WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Visuality of Military Recruitment: US and UK Militaries and PMSCs Compared
Eugenio Cusumano
Leiden University
EISS 2019What Do You Want to Die For? Military Recruitment in Comparative Perspective
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
Theories of Balancing and US Grand Strategy: Unpacking the Europe vs. East Asia Tradeoff
Linde Desmaele, Luis Simón
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
EISS 2019The Past, Present and Future of Transatlantic Security
European and transatlantic security
Understanding the Politics of European Naval Procurement: Always Just Beyond the Horizon?
Brendan Flynn
National University of Ireland Galway
EISS 2019Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Uninsured Allies: When Do States Divest from Nuclear Latency?
Ulrich Kuehn, Tristan A. Volpe
University of Hamburg · US Naval Postgraduate School
EISS 2019WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
We Are Army After All? Military Recruitment in the Netherlands and Germany
Jutta Joachim, Andrea Schneiker
Radboud University · University of Siegen
EISS 2019What Do You Want to Die For? Military Recruitment in Comparative Perspective
Civil–military relations and the armed forces
When do Legislatures Matter in Civil-Military Relations?
Stephen Saideman
Carleton University
EISS 2019The Domestic Politics of Security and Defense
A Public and Private Norm for Force? Authorities’ Assemblages and Re-Specification of State in the International Control of Private Security
Cyril Magnon-Pujo
University Lumière Lyon 2, France
EISS 2018Private Actors and Conflict
Private military actors
A Weapon of the Weak? Cyberwarfare and China’s Threat Perception
Simone Dossi
University of Milan, Italy
EISS 2018Security and Deterrence in Asia
DeterrenceRegional security and area studies
All Options on the (Latency) Table: The Impact of Carrots and Sticks on Nuclear Latency Roll-Back
Rupal Mehta, Molly Berkemeier, Paige Price Cone, Rachel Whitlark
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States · Texas A & M University, United States · University of Chicago, United States · Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
EISS 2018Alliances and Military Innovation
Transformations of warfare and conflictDefence cooperation and military assistance
An EU Inspired Cloud of Multilateral Antipathy? The British Public and Foreign Policy Attitudes on the Eve of Brexit?
Thomas Scotto
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Democratization and Politicization of Military Issues in Europe
European and transatlantic security
Analyzing Private Military and Security Contractors’ Power in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
Berenike Prem
University of Kiel, Germany
EISS 2018Private Actors and Conflict
Private military actors
Arms Procurement, Transfers and Defense Industries as a Means of Gaining Autonomy: The Case of the Gulf States
Emma Soubrier
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
EISS 2018Arms Production and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Ballot Boxes and Surgical Strikes: Indian National Security Choices in Electoral Campaigns
Karthika Sasikumar
San Jose State University, United States
EISS 2018Asymmetric Threats, Non-State Actors and Domestic Politics
Private military actors
Breathing New Life into NPT? Likely Impact of the Ban Treaty on the NPT Review Process
Michal Onderco
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
EISS 2018WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Brexit and the Future of European Military Coalitions
Katharina Wolf
European University Institute, Italy
EISS 2018Military Interventions
Military interventions
Can and Want. But How? Russia’s Approaches to Use of Military Force in International Relations
Katarzyna Zysk
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway
EISS 2018Military Interventions
Military interventions
Chinese Perspectives on Security in Cyberspace
Rogier Creemers
University of Leiden, Netherlands
EISS 2018Collective Security and Strategic (In)Stability in Cyberspace
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Consequences of Military Technology Evolutions on the Rare-Metal Needs: Assessment of the Supply Security
Raphaël Danino-Perraud
Laboratoire d’Économie d’Orléans (LEO) / Bureau des Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), France
EISS 2018Alliances and Military Innovation
Transformations of warfare and conflictDefence cooperation and military assistance
Consistent Inconsistency: The Unintended Consequences of the US ‘Spoiling’ a Region?
Catherine Jones
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Security and Deterrence in Asia
DeterrenceRegional security and area studies
Cooperation and Non-Cooperation in European Defense Procurement: the “Italian Job”
Antonio Calcara
Ph.D. Candidate, LUISS, University “Guido Carli” in Rome, Italy
EISS 2018Arms Production and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Coping with ‘Grey Zone Situations’: Japan’s Strategy in the East China Sea
Cécile Pajon
French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), France
EISS 2018Security and Deterrence in Asia
DeterrenceRegional security and area studies
Criminal Networks in Africa: a New Door of Latin America Traffics?
Raquel Barras Tejudo
EuroMesco/Carnegie, Lebanon
EISS 2018Hybrid Threats, Criminal Insurgency and the Path Toward Multi-Domain Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technologyTerrorism and counter-terrorism
Cyber Action Russia and Intelligence
Jamel Metmati
Cyber Chair of Saint-Cyr, France
EISS 2018Intelligence
Intelligence
Cyber Attacks as a Threat to International Peace and Security: The Action of the UN Security Council
Annachiara Rotundo
University of Naples, Italy
EISS 2018Collective Security and Strategic (In)Stability in Cyberspace
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Cyberspace and the Recourse to Offensive Actions
Stéphane Taillat
St Cyr Military Academy, France
EISS 2018Collective Security and Strategic (In)Stability in Cyberspace
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Defining, Labelling, Listing: The Construction of the Terrorist ‘Other’ since the End of the 19th Century
Corentin Siret
Université de Caen, France
EISS 2018Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Envisaging Alternatives for Europe’s Nuclear Order
Elmar Hellendoorn
Harvard University, United States
EISS 2018Europe and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Putin, Trump and Brexit
Deterrence
European Military Capability Needs in an Age of American Restraint
Mauro Gilli
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
EISS 2018European Grand Strategy
European and transatlantic security
How Foreign State Support Affects Rebel Groups: Evidence from Angola
Quint Hoekstra
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Asymmetric Threats, Non-State Actors and Domestic Politics
Private military actors
How to Think About Nuclear Crises
Mark Bell
University of Minnesota, United States
EISS 2018WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Hunting Terrorist Suspects: the Role of Police Intelligence in Fighting Terrorism in Europe
Hager Ben Jaffel
King’s College London, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Intelligence
Intelligence
Hybrid Threats: Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime and a New Concept of Security
David Garcia Cantalapiedra
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
EISS 2018Hybrid Threats, Criminal Insurgency and the Path Toward Multi-Domain Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technologyTerrorism and counter-terrorism
Influencing the Feeling of Security?
Michael T. Oswald
Free University Berlin, Germany
EISS 2018Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Informal Institutions, Trust and the Design of Privatization
Moritz Weiss
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
EISS 2018Arms Production and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Intelligence ‘Failure’ and the 2004 Madrid Train Bombings
Frennie Warner
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
EISS 2018Intelligence
Intelligence
International Legality of Cyberweapons
Joanna Kulesza
University of Lodz, Poland
EISS 2018Collective Security and Strategic (In)Stability in Cyberspace
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Into the Vacuum: How the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Islamic State Insurgencies Exploited the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Crisis from mid 2014-mid 2017
John Holland-McCowan
King’s College London, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
It’s the Americans, Stupid... Is it? Understanding the French (Suspect) Plebiscite for European Defense
Cyrille Thiébaut
European University Institute, Italy / Paris 1 CESSP, France
EISS 2018Democratization and Politicization of Military Issues in Europe
European and transatlantic security
Italian Military Transformation: Defense Industry Trends and National Leadership
Marco Valigi, Gabriele Natalizia
University of Bologna, Italy · Link Campus University, Italy
EISS 2018Alliances and Military Innovation
Transformations of warfare and conflictDefence cooperation and military assistance
Japan’s Defense Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific: Motivations, Constituent Components and Limitations
Elena Atanassova-Cornelis
University of Antwerp, Belgium
EISS 2018Defense Cooperation
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Keeping Secrets: Surveying the Factors Affecting Professional Discretion
Damien Van Puyvelde
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Intelligence
Intelligence
Migrant Rescuing as Organized Hypocrisy. EU Maritime Missions Offshore Libya between Humanitarianism and Border Control
Eugenio Cusumano
Leiden University, Netherlands
EISS 2018Asymmetric Threats, Non-State Actors and Domestic Politics
Private military actors
Military Intelligence and Top-secret Interrogation Centers in the Second World War
Simona Tobia
Université de Toulouse, France
EISS 2018Intelligence
Intelligence
Military Interventions, Liberal Militarism and Republican Restraints on Power
Kevin Blachford
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Military Interventions
Military interventions
Nordic and Nordic-Baltic Defense Cooperation after the Ukraine Crisis
Ida Maria Oma
Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, Norway
EISS 2018Defense Cooperation
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Now End of History: Ruptures and Tectonic Shifts?
Beatrice Heuser
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
EISS 2018European Grand Strategy
European and transatlantic security
Nuclear Alliances: Strategies of Extended Nuclear Deterrence and the Pursuit of Hegemony
Eliza Gheorghe
Yale University, United States
EISS 2018WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Organized Crime in Latin-America: How Brazilian Organizations Are Changing the Rules of the Game
Carolina Sampó
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
EISS 2018Hybrid Threats, Criminal Insurgency and the Path Toward Multi-Domain Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technologyTerrorism and counter-terrorism
Party Political Contestation of Military Interventions
Wolfgang Wagner
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
EISS 2018Democratization and Politicization of Military Issues in Europe
European and transatlantic security
Policy Mood and Policy Responsiveness on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
Pierangelo Isernia, Francesco Olmastroni
University of Siena, Italy
EISS 2018Democratization and Politicization of Military Issues in Europe
European and transatlantic security
Producing Airpower: Neo-Liberalism and Complex Weaponry
Marc R. DeVore
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Arms Production and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Prompt Global Strike and the New Fog of War
Mischa Hansel
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
EISS 2018Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Protégé Panic: Alliance Fears and the Trump Administration
Alexander Lanoszka, Zack Cooper
City, University of London, United Kingdom · Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
EISS 2018Defense Cooperation
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Quo Vadimus? U.S.-EU Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in an Age of Uncertainty
Carlotta Minnella
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
EISS 2018European Grand Strategy
European and transatlantic security
Reconceptualizing the Military Assistance: Evaluating Norwegian Support to Building Integrity in the Defense Institutions in Western Balkans
Islam Jusufi
Epoka University, Albania
EISS 2018Asymmetric Threats, Non-State Actors and Domestic Politics
Private military actors
Redefining Statehood in Conflict: Local Militias, Transnational Actors and Security Governance in Mali
Edoardo Baldaro
University of Naples, Italy
EISS 2018Private Actors and Conflict
Private military actors
Rethinking (Counter) Terrorism, the Enemy ‘Within’, Cyber Strategies and Construction of Narratives in the Fight Against Terrorism
Elizabeth Sheppard
Université François Rabelais-Tours, France
EISS 2018Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Russia’s Military Intervention in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria: An Analysis of Russia’s Strategic Culture, Perceptions and Relative National Power
Domitilla Sagramoso, Simon Saradzhyan, Nabi Abdullaev
King’s College London, United Kingdom · Harvard University · Control Risks, United States
EISS 2018Military Interventions
Military interventions
Schrodinger’s Panda – Quantum Technology in China
Raymond Wang
Middlebury Institute of International Studies / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
EISS 2018WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Security Studies in Europe: An Agenda
Beatrice Heuser
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Opening Remarks & Keynote Speech
Short presentation on the IAFIE’s research activities and initiatives
Bob de Graaf
Chair of the European Chapter of IAFIE (International Association For Intelligence Education)
EISS 2018Intelligence
Intelligence
Small State, Big Impact? Iceland’s First National Security Policy
Page Wilson, Audur Ingolfsdottir
University of Iceland, Iceland · University of Akureyri, Iceland
EISS 2018Defense Cooperation
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Spacepower in the International System: Measuring Power in Heaven
Bleddyn Bowen
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Strategies for Obtaining United Nations Security Council Approval
Stefano Recchia
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Defense Cooperation
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Technological Singularity and War: Artificial Intelligence and the Radical Transformation of Human-Machine Relations
Raluca Csernaton
Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
EISS 2018Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Testing Traditional Alliances Ability to Contain China’s Rise
Claudia Astarita
Sciences Po, France
EISS 2018Alliances and Military Innovation
Transformations of warfare and conflictDefence cooperation and military assistance
The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Moral Idealism or Transformative Change of the Global Nonproliferation Regime?
Margarita Petrova
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Spain
EISS 2018WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
The Anti-Mercenary Norm and United Nations’ Use of Private Military and Security Companies
Oldrich Bures, Jeremy Meyer
Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic
EISS 2018Private Actors and Conflict
Private military actors
The Atlantic Alliance’s Cohesion at Risk? Current Euro-Atlantic Challenges Seen through the Lens of the Second Berlin Crisis (1958-1963)
Frédéric Gloriant
École Normale Supérieure, France
EISS 2018Europe and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Putin, Trump and Brexit
Deterrence
The Blurred Line between Insurgency and Organized Crime in Afghanistan
María Barco Martínez
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Hybrid Threats, Criminal Insurgency and the Path Toward Multi-Domain Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technologyTerrorism and counter-terrorism
The British Army, Modern Fire and Basic Military Training: 1871-1918
Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France
EISS 2018Alliances and Military Innovation
Transformations of warfare and conflictDefence cooperation and military assistance
The Crime/Terror Nexus in Europe. Initial Results from a Multi-Method Approach
Daniela Pisolu
Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Austria
EISS 2018Hybrid Threats, Criminal Insurgency and the Path Toward Multi-Domain Security
Emerging domains: cyber and technologyTerrorism and counter-terrorism
The Evolution of US Alliances in Northeast Asia: Japan and South Korea
Matteo Dian
University of Bologna, Italy
EISS 2018Security and Deterrence in Asia
DeterrenceRegional security and area studies
The Impact of Academic Research on States’ Approach and Practice on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations
François Delerue
Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM), France
EISS 2018Collective Security and Strategic (In)Stability in Cyberspace
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
The Insurgents’ Right to Surrender and New Military Technologies: The Risk of Lawfare via the European Court of Human Rights
Philippe Bou Nader
Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II), France
EISS 2018Private Actors and Conflict
Private military actors
The International Systemic Impact of Terrorism: from Sarajevo to 9/11
Bruno Reis
University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE, Portugal
EISS 2018Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
The Metamorphosis of ‘Capability’: British Defense Equipment Support Policy Since 2010
Benoit Giry, Andy Smith
Centre Émile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
EISS 2018Arms Production and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
The Recurring Logic of French Military Interventions in Africa and their Implications for Barkhane and the Sahel
Nathaniel Powel
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
EISS 2018Military Interventions
Military interventions
The Resurgence of European Insecurity: Lessons Learned (and Forgotten) from the Euromissile Crisis (1977-1987)
Ilaria Paris
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
EISS 2018Europe and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Putin, Trump and Brexit
Deterrence
Towards a European ‘Offset Strategy’? Procurement and Emerging Technologies
Daniel Fiott
European Union Institute for Security (EUISS), France
EISS 2018Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
U.S. END and Nuclear Use: “Finally” a Bipolar Problem
Christine Leah
independent researcher
EISS 2018Europe and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Putin, Trump and Brexit
Deterrence
Understanding and Countering Violent Extremism: Exploring the Discursive Construction of Transnational Counter-Terrorism Programming at the Security-Development Nexus
Ann-Kathrin Rothermel
University of Potsdam, Germany
EISS 2018Asymmetric Threats, Non-State Actors and Domestic Politics
Private military actors
US-Chinese Maritime Security and the Consequences for Europe’s Relations with Washington and Beijing
Liselotte Odgaard
Royal Danish Defense College, Denmark
EISS 2018Security and Deterrence in Asia
DeterrenceRegional security and area studies
What [European] Women [Really] Want? A Critical, Feminist Approach to Understanding Gendered Aspects of Public Opinion on European Union’s Security and Defense Policy
Karen Devine
Dublin City University, Ireland
EISS 2018Democratization and Politicization of Military Issues in Europe
European and transatlantic security
What are the EU’s Grand Strategic Options in Response to American Restraint?
Marina Henke, Paul van Hooft
Northwestern University / European University Institute, Italy · European University Institute, Italy
EISS 2018European Grand Strategy
European and transatlantic security
What Political Forces Shape European Security on the World Stage?
Luis Simón
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
EISS 2018European Grand Strategy
European and transatlantic security
Why is Spin-in Not Yet a Win-Win? Obstacles to Technology Transfer of Autonomy from the Civilian to the Military Sector
Maaike Verbruggen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
EISS 2018Military Technology
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Words Matter. Donald Trump and the Credibility of US Extended Nuclear Deterrence
Hiroshi Nakatani
University of Reading, United Kingdom
EISS 2018Europe and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Putin, Trump and Brexit
Deterrence
A Science and Technology Studies Approach to Drone Politics in Europe
Samuel Longuet
Université Libre Bruxelles
EISS 2017Panel 2: Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
American Military-Technological Superiority in the Age of Cyber Espionage, Globalization and the Rise of China
Dr. Mauro Gilli, Dr. Andrea Gilli
ETH Zurich · Stanford University
EISS 2017Panel 3: Emerging Domains: Cybersecurity
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Arms Procurement in the Gulf Region: Evolving Trends and Implications for the Client State–Supplying State–Industry Triangle
Emma Soubrier
University of Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand)
EISS 2017Panel 2: Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Banning Nuclear Weapons? The Dilemma for the NATO Non-Nuclear Weapon States
Prof. Tom Sauer
University of Antwerp
EISS 2017Panel 7: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Barefoot Soldiers and Skiing Nations: Incoherence, Coping Strategies and the Making of Meaning in the UN Mission in Mali
Dr. Chiara Ruffa, Dr. Sebastiaan Rietjens
Uppsala University · Netherlands Defense Academy
EISS 2017Panel 6: Military Interventions
Military interventions
Bridging the Academic – Practitioner Divide in Counter-Terrorism
Prof. Marianne van Leeuwen
University of Amsterdam
EISS 2017Panel 8: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Continuity and Change in Terrorist Strategies
Dr. Jenny Raflik-Grenouilleau
University of Cergy-Pontoise
EISS 2017Panel 1: Change and Continuity in War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Cyber Compellence: Applying Coercion in the Information Age
Dr. Brandon Valeriano, Dr. Benjamin M. Jensen, Dr. Ryan C. Maness
Cardiff University · Marine Corps University · Northeastern University
EISS 2017Panel 3: Emerging Domains: Cybersecurity
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Cybersecurity and the Public Sector: The Italian Case
Dr. Raffaele Marchetti, Roberta Mulas
LUISS University · University of Warwick & LUISS University
EISS 2017Panel 3: Emerging Domains: Cybersecurity
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Do You Hear Me Major Tom? Media, Narratives and Contemporary Military Operations: the Case of the Italian Mission in Afghanistan
Dr. Fabrizio Coticchia, Silvia D’Amato
University of Genoa · Scuola Normale Superiore
EISS 2017Panel 6: Military Interventions
Military interventions
Dynamics of Security Privatization and the Evolution of the Regulatory State in Security: Explaining Anglo-Saxon and Continental European Trajectories
Dr. Andreas Kruck
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich/Free University Berlin
EISS 2017Panel 5: Private Security Contractors
Private military actors
Empathetic Practices in International Security
Claire Yorke
King’s College London
EISS 2017Panel 9: Theoretical Developments in Security Studies
Theoretical developments in security studies
France’s Colonial Wars in the XIX and XX Centuries, and its Military Interventions in the XXI Century: Continuities or Discontinuities?
Dr. Julie d’Andurain
Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 1)
EISS 2017Panel 1: Change and Continuity in War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Global Nuclear Order, Hegemony and Resistance
Dr. Nick Ritchie
University of York
EISS 2017Panel 7: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
Grey Zones, Deterrence and Signaling: the Case of the US-Japan Alliance
Dr. Matteo Dian
University of Bologna
EISS 2017Panel 1: Change and Continuity in War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
Issues and Frames: Explaining Coercion in Cyberspace
Miguel Gomez
ETH Zurich
EISS 2017Panel 3: Emerging Domains: Cybersecurity
Emerging domains: cyber and technology
Keynote Speech
Professor Sir Hew Strachan
University of St Andrews
EISS 2017Opening Remarks & Keynote Speech
Military Cooperation in Unstable Places: Explaining American Failures in the Sahara-Sahel
Dr. Edoardo Baldaro
Scuola Normale Superiore
EISS 2017Panel 4: Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Military Interventionism and the Responsibility to Protect: The Crisis in Syria
Dr. Šárka Kolmašová
Metropolitan University Prague
EISS 2017Panel 6: Military Interventions
Military interventions
NATO Perceptions and Assessments of International Terrorism 1978-1983
Dr. Dionysios Chourchoulis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
EISS 2017Panel 8: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
New Wine in Old Bottles? United Kingdom Defence Procurement and Defence Industries in the post-Brexit Era
Dr. Benedict Wilkinson
King’s College London
EISS 2017Panel 2: Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
Private Military and Security Companies on Twitter: Hiding in Plain Sight
Prof. Andrea Schneiker
University of Siegen
EISS 2017Panel 5: Private Security Contractors
Private military actors
Private Security Logos: a Visual Analysis of PMSC’s Legitimation Strategies
Dr. Eugenio Cusumano
University of Leiden
EISS 2017Panel 5: Private Security Contractors
Private military actors
Scholarly Responsibility, Non-proliferation and Deterrence: the Effects of Self-Censorship
Dr. Benoit Pelopidas
Sciences Po Paris
EISS 2017Panel 7: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control
States vs. Markets in Rising Powers: Functional and Political Sources of Institutional Resilience in India’s Defense Sector
Dr. Moritz Weiss
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
EISS 2017Panel 2: Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms acquisition and transfer
The Book that Leaves Nothing to Chance: How The Strategy of Conflict and Its Legacy Normalized the Practice of Nuclear Threats
Dr. Benoit Pelopidas
Sciences Po Paris
EISS 2017Panel 9: Theoretical Developments in Security Studies
Theoretical developments in security studies
The Co-Evolution of the Private Military and Security Companies and their Environments: Explaining the Multi-Faceted Nature of the PMSC Industry
Berenike Prem
Witten/Herdecke University
EISS 2017Panel 5: Private Security Contractors
Private military actors
The Future in the Past: Victory, Defeat, and Comparative Grand Strategy
Dr. Paul van Hooft
European University Institute
EISS 2017Panel 1: Change and Continuity in War
Transformations of warfare and conflict
The Future of American Power in Europe and European Strategic Cooperation
Dr. Paul van Hooft
European University Institute
EISS 2017Panel 4: Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
The Origins of Transnational Terrorist Waves
Dr. Andreas Gofas
European University Institute / Panteion University of Athens
EISS 2017Panel 8: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
The Procurement and Adoption of Innovations in Modern Naval Warfare
Aldo Carone
London School of Economics
EISS 2017Panel 9: Theoretical Developments in Security Studies
Theoretical developments in security studies
The Trouble with Internationally Proclaimed Safe Areas
Dr. Stefano Recchia
University of Cambridge
EISS 2017Panel 6: Military Interventions
Military interventions
Tools, Concepts, and Weapons: Intellectual History and Strategic Studies
Dr. Grey Anderson
Sciences Po Paris
EISS 2017Panel 9: Theoretical Developments in Security Studies
Theoretical developments in security studies
Towards Nodal Defense? US Strategy and European Security
Dr. Luis Simón, Dr. Alexander Lanoszka
Vrije Universiteit Brussels · City, University of London
EISS 2017Panel 4: Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Transatlantic Defence Cooperation after Brexit and Trump
Prof. Magnus Petersson
Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
EISS 2017Panel 4: Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defence cooperation and military assistance
Transnational Terrorism and Strategic Culture: A New Understanding of State Counterterrorism Response
Silvia D’Amato
Scuola Normale Superiore
EISS 2017Panel 8: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Why a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Is a Bad Idea
Dr. Michal Onderco
Erasmus University Rotterdam
EISS 2017Panel 7: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Non-proliferation and arms control