The strategic reflection process launched in early 2015 led to the publication of the EU Global Strategy, whose presentation was welcomed by the European Council in June 2016. The process engaged a very wide variety of actors, from official institutions and member states to the broader foreign...

During the process of strategic reflection which led to the publication of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS), a broad consensus rapidly consolidated around the need for a specific follow-up initiative on European security and defence. Events since June 2016, when the High...

The strategic reflection process launched in early 2015 led to the publication of the EU Global Strategy, whose presentation was welcomed by the European Council in June 2016. The process engaged a very wide variety of actors, from official institutions and member states to the broader foreign...

During the process of strategic reflection which led to the publication of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS), a broad consensus rapidly consolidated around the need for a specific follow-up initiative on European security and defence. Events since June 2016, when the High...

The EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS) has always been about the process as much as the product itself. And in this process, the role of experts has been key. Reaching out beyond official institutions to the expert community has given the EUGS greater analytical depth, has...

The EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS) has always been about the process as much as the product itself. And in this process, the role of experts has been key. Reaching out beyond official institutions to the expert community has given the EUGS greater analytical depth, has...

Russia employs 'bricolage' tactics to offset its structural weaknesses and adjust to the evolving nature of great power competition. Examples include its culture of military innovation or the operations of the Wagner Group and its successors. The metaphor of the bricoleur, or tinkerer, aptly...

Russia employs 'bricolage' tactics to offset its structural weaknesses and adjust to the evolving nature of great power competition. Examples include its culture of military innovation or the operations of the Wagner Group and its successors. The metaphor of the bricoleur, or tinkerer, aptly...

There is no need to explain why the issues and activities analysed in this report have become crucially important for the EU and its overall security. The way in which Russia and the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Daesh, have supported hostile actions on the...