Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and technological developments such as artificial intelligence, digital transformations affect almost all areas of social, economic, and environmental life. Emerging as a tool for addressing challenges – but also as a source of new problems or as an...

Strengthening Europe’s sovereignty has become a much-debated policy goal. This paper adds three arguments to ongoing discussions. First, it is no coincidence that recent years have witnessed increasing debate around how to strengthen Europe’s sovereignty. The Maastricht-EU, Europe’s...

In just a few short months, the new government administration in the United States has thrown the world order into disarray. A potential global trade war, new global value chain configurations and shifting security alliances are reshaping geopolitics. Given the current uncertainty, access to...

In just a few short months, the new government administration in the United States has thrown the world order into disarray. A potential global trade war, new global value chain configurations and shifting security alliances are reshaping geopolitics. Given the current uncertainty, access to...

This article explores the implications of the infrastructural turn in internet governance, a policy shift where nation-states increasingly assert sovereignty through material interventions in the internet's physical and technical architecture. I propose a typology of six strategies that...

The combination of Russia's war against Ukraine and the declining US engagement in Europe have resulted in increased strategic convergence between Europeanist and Atlanticist states. For the time being, the primary goal is to strengthen NATO's "European pillar." To do so, member states will also...

As part of the confirmation hearings process, Executive Vice-President-designate Henna Virkkunen responded in writing to questions posed by Parliament and appeared before the ITRE and IMCO committees on 12 November 2024 to answer further questions from MEPs belonging to those committees, as well...

As part of the confirmation hearings process, Executive Vice-President-designate Henna Virkkunen responded in writing to questions posed by Parliament and appeared before the ITRE and IMCO committees on 12 November 2024 to answer further questions from MEPs belonging to those committees, as well...

The current US administration promotes dollar-backed stablecoins-privately issued and supported by US debt-to reinforce dollar dominance worldwide, a strategy we dub "cryptomercantilism." This report studies the EU's 2024 Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and its safeguards for the...

The current US administration promotes dollar-backed stablecoins-privately issued and supported by US debt-to reinforce dollar dominance worldwide, a strategy we dub "cryptomercantilism." This report studies the EU's 2024 Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and its safeguards for the...

This essay examines Iran's most extensive internet disruption since 2022, imposed during the June 2025 conflict with Israel, when missile strikes quickly evolved into coordinated cyberattacks on banking, radar, and communications systems. Drawing from direct experience during the blackout, it...

The rise of commercial space ventures heightens tensions between investor protections and states’ regulatory sovereignty. With dual-use technologies and evolving space law, balancing innovation, security, and sustainability is critical. Coordinated global frameworks and well-grounded national...

This study aims to systematically review the literature on de-dollarization in light of its increasing significance. The review has been carried out using the Theory, Context, Characteristics, Methodology (TCCM) framework on 52 studies retrieved from the Scopus and Web of Science database. The...

This paper proposes a mission-oriented national strategy for strengthening cybersecurity and achieving digital sovereignty in the Netherlands for 2025–2035. It outlines an integrated framework across four pillars: national cyber resilience, sovereign digital procurement, innovation and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Schmitt and Dictatorship -- Chapter 3. Schmitt and Sovereignty -- Chapter 4. 'Die Diktatur des Reichspräsidenten' -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Decisionism, Authority, Sovereignty, and the 'State of Exception'.

Using a focus on the ways that Covid-19 has impacted everyday life in urban Latin America, this article examines the shifting activities of organized criminal groups in the context of a global pandemic. Using grounded ethnographic fieldwork drawn from Brazil, it asks whether a health crisis with...

Strengthening Europe's sovereignty has become a much-debated policy goal. This paper adds three arguments to ongoing discussions. First, it is no coincidence that recent years have witnessed increasing debate around how to strengthen Europe's sovereignty. The Maastricht-EU, Europe's overarching...

The European Sovereignty Fund (EUSF) should invest in Europe's future by investing indirectly in start-ups and scale-ups via the existing Fund of the European Innovation Council (EIC). This would be concrete step to advance the aims of the recently agreed Strategic Technologies for Europe...

This annex is an integral part of the State of the Digital Decade 2024 report. It maintains the three-chapter structure from the 2023 report, focusing on competitiveness, people and society and smart greening, and introduces an additional chapter on synergising digital policies and spending....

This annex is an integral part of the State of the Digital Decade 2024 report. It maintains the three-chapter structure from the 2023 report, focusing on competitiveness, people and society and smart greening, and introduces an additional chapter on synergising digital policies and spending....

As compared to the earlier generations of mobile communications (1G to 4G), the fifth one (5G) is a major business, regulatory, and technical discontinuity. Furthermore, unlike the previous generations, 5G is also much more of a geopolitical and geoeconomic battleground. These shifts are neither...

This paper challenges the prevailing view in the sovereign debt literature by arguing that sovereign debt markets, in many respects, behave similarly to other credit markets. These markets are hierarchical rather than flat, inherently hybrid in nature, blending elements of public order and...

Unterbrochene Lieferketten im Zuge von COVID-19 und Russlands Angriff auf die Ukraine haben die geopolitischen Risiken der Beschaffung kritischer Rohstoffe und Produkte aus einer kleinen Zahl autoritärer Länder deutlich gemacht. Die EU hat eine Reihe von Aktivitäten eingeleitet, um einseitige...