Project inRESPONSE Member Elena Simanschi discusses Russian (dis)information on the Thinking Global podcast – Oct 23 2023

Francesca Leso is a PhD candidate in the program Politics, Policies and International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), under the supervision of Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués. Her PhD dissertation explores the European Union’s relations with Eastern Europe in the wake of the 2022 war in Ukraine. Her research fields of interest are the European…

inRESPONSE principal investigator Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués and researcher Francesca Leso have been featured in the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) Scholar Spotlight Series with their article titled “Geopolitical EU? The EU’s Wartime Assistance to Ukraine”.   Their research examines whether recent claims by high-ranking EU officials about the “birth of the geopolitical EU” are substantiated by the actual…

On 14 March, International Affairs blog published a blog symposium featuring four authors. In it, Kjetil Selvik, Banafsheh Ranji, Elena Şimanschi and Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués discuss the role of media in authoritarian states. Read the full article here.

inRESPONSE researcher Ana Juncos published article in the Journal of Comparative European Politics in April 2025 titled “A pragmatist theory of power: understanding the EU’s transformation and security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine”. The research was done in the context of the inRESPONSE project and explores the EU’s security response to Russia’s invasion of…