inRESPONSE PI Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués presents paper at EWIS in Istanbul

inRESPONSE PI Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués presents paper at EWIS in Istanbul

inRESPONSE PI Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués presents the paper “Contested bordering practices in Eastern Europe: the ontological (in)security of the EU at its liminars” in the 11th Annual European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Türkiye on the 3-5 of July 2024.

Reshaping Security: The Impact of Russia’s Invasion into Ukraine on Military Expenditures in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Reshaping Security: The Impact of Russia’s Invasion into Ukraine on Military Expenditures in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

by Cecilia Duncan, inRESPONSE Researcher The Russian invasion of Ukraine has upset the security order across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion in February 2022 to expand Russian territorial gains and sever Ukraine’s ties with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This “special military operation” is in contravention of…

Finnish and Swedish membership in NATO brings the two countries even closer together

Finnish and Swedish membership in NATO brings the two countries even closer together

by Hanna Ojanen, Research Director, Tampere University & inRESPONSE Researcher Finland’s newly elected President Alexander Stubb recently paid his first state visit to Stockholm, as per tradition for Finnish presidents. This time a lot has changed: now the two countries are in NATO. Understandably, NATO was one of the central topics during the visit. In his…

inRESPONSE Panel Accepted at EISA 2024

inRESPONSE Panel Accepted at EISA 2024

An inRESPONSE panel has been accepted to EISA’s 17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, taking place on 27-31 August 2024 at the Lille Catholic University in France. The panel information is below. A changing European multilateral security order? Institutional responses in a contested post-liberal landscapeThe European security order which emerged at the end of the Cold War, designed to…

January 2024: Workshop on Geopolitical Dynamics in the Digital Age: Navigating Cybersecurity and Disinformation Challenges

January 2024: Workshop on Geopolitical Dynamics in the Digital Age: Navigating Cybersecurity and Disinformation Challenges

The Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and the Council for European Studies (CES) will jointly organize the Workshop on Geopolitical Dynamics in the Digital Age: Navigating Cybersecurity and Disinformation Challenges, scheduled for 18-19 January 2024 to be held at IBEI, Barcelona.  The objective of the workshop is to address the pressing issues surrounding cybersecurity and disinformation challenges that have emerged in the modern digital landscape. Cyber threats and disinformation campaigns,…