Security & Defence
European security and defence analysis: NATO, EU defence industrial policy, strategic autonomy, transatlantic alliance politics, the Arctic and the militarisation of outer space. Published by early-career researchers at the Neo Institute Europa.
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How Russia uses cyber operations as grey-zone statecraft in Europe: the actors, methods and targets, and why EU and NATO responses still fall short.
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Germany’s Gesamtkonzeption sets out a blueprint for a more European NATO. What the concept proposes, and what it would demand of Berlin and its allies.
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Portugal’s handling of the Lajes air base during the Iran war shows how small states use diplomatic pragmatism to manage alliance obligations with the US.
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Europe wants defence technological self-reliance but still depends on foreign suppliers. Where EU strategic autonomy is real, and where it remains rhetoric.
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Melting ice is turning the Arctic into a contested corridor of trade and power. What the new northern geography means for Europe’s strategic horizon.
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Space is becoming a domain of strategic competition. Copernicus, defence and why Europe’s space policy is now a geopolitical question, not a technical one.
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