Elena Simanschi inRESPONSE Researcher discussed trends and narratives of (pro-)-Russian disinformation in Moldova prior to the presidential elections of 2024 and the referendum on EU membership. Find the interview here. #Moldova #elections #referendum #disinformation Image source: Maia Sandu’s Instagram Page.
Elena Simanschi recently participated in the research seminar titled “Disinformation in Enlargement Countries: Sowing Instability, Distorting EU’s Perception”, held at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). This seminar, organized by CIDOB with support from the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Commission, aimed to identify the factors driving disinformation in the…
Episode 2: Geopolitical EU? The EU’s Wartime Assistance to Ukraine with Prof. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués In today’s episode, Emily sits down with Professor Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués to discuss the EU’s evolving foreign policy in response to the war in Ukraine. They delve into Professor Johansson-Nogués’ recent article, co-authored with Francesca Leso, titled “Geopolitical EU? The EU’s Wartime…
Excited to share the video abstract of Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués and Francesca Leso’s academic article “Geopolitical EU? The EU’s Wartime Assistance to Ukraine” published in the Journal of Common Market Studies in April 2024:
inRESPONSE researchers Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Aitor Bonsoms and Francesca Leso presented their work at the panel A changing European multilateral security order? Institutional responses in a contested post-liberal landscape. The panel dealt with both with the factors that lead up to the malfunction of the liberal European security order to make inter-state war in 2022 possible, as…
An inRESPONSE paper authored by Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués “Contested Bordering Practices in Eastern Europe: the Ontological (In)security of the EU at its Liminars” has been accepted for the 11th European Workshops in International Studies, Istanbul, 3-5 July 2024.
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…
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.