Diplomacy’s Dead End: Why Talks with Moscow Keep Failing
What is routinely described as a failure of diplomacy is the consequence of a strategic error: Western governments are still trying to negotiate an end to a war without fully grasping the objectives…
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Between Geopolitics and Enlargement: Reconfiguring Pre-Accession Assistance in the Next EU Budget
The proposed Global Europe Instrument reshapes the EU‘s pre-accession assistance for the Western Balkans by integrating enlargement funding into a broader external action framework, increasing…
Securing Ukraine after the War: Nuclear Deterrence and Four Models of Security Guarantees
A durable post-war security settlement for Ukraine will depend on the credibility of deterrence in an increasingly unstable European nuclear order. Russia’s full-scale invasion has exposed the limits…
Strategic Communication on Ukraine’s Accession to the EU
Ukraine’s accession would represent one of the most significant steps in the history of EU enlargement, reshaping the Union’s security, economic and geopolitical landscape. Enlargement is also…