This article analyses the critical role of Special Operations Forces in protecting global security. 🛡️ From combating piracy to preserving undersea infrastructure, SOF ensure the smooth flow of trade, resources, maritime security & economic stability. 🔗 esthinktank.com/2025/06/12/the…

The EU has invested in space policy and research since the mid-2000s. Since January 2025, the EU Commission has initiated progress in securitisation and defensive measures in space. ✍️Lenaïg Deslandes 🔗esthinktank.com/2025/06/19/the…

🎙️To mark World Refugee Day, we recorded a podcast episode with Guido Ambroso, former UNHCR Representative with 34 years of experience on the field. 🔗 Listen now: lnkd.in/e5_9TnXk

LAST DAY TO APPLY TO JOIN OUR BOARD! 🚨 We are recruiting a new Board for 2025–2026! If you're passionate about youth engagement, policy, and making a difference across Europe, this is your chance to lead. 🌍✨ 📌 Explore the board positions: lnkd.in/e5euX6ex

NEW PODCAST EPISODE! 🎧 We’re diving into how digital spaces are shaping women’s roles, identities, and rights — from AI bias to influencer culture and the digital gender gap. Brought to you by the EST in collaboration with Politics 4 Her. Listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/RjcTtnhlBUb

✍️ Drawing on the recent CJEU ruling on Malta’s citizenship-by-investment programme, this article explores what this decision reveals on the evolving nature of EU citizenship. A new EU framework or a return to the discredited “genuine link” doctrine? 🔗 esthinktank.com/2025/07/02/is-…

This article considers whether the World Trade Organisation has failed to serve the international population and the challenges faced by Western powers such as the EU as the organisation evolves in response to various challenges. ✍️Emma McDonagh 🔗esthinktank.com/2025/07/04/is-…

📚 This paper traces the making of the “underdeveloped” world from Truman’s 1949 speech to today’s global institutions, revealing how development became a language of domination masked as aid. ✍ Elisée Monti & Carla Cid 🔗 esthinktank.com/2025/07/05/the…

📢New podcast episode out now! Diving into how digital spaces are shaping women’s roles, identities, and rights, from AI bias to influencer culture and the digital gender gap. Brought to you by the EST in collaboration with Politics4Her♀️ 🎧 Listen here: lnkd.in/eCK9Ze_c

Hungary’s entrenched illiberalism has become a central internal challenge to the EU’s ability to act as a unified global actor. 🌍 👉 Explore what the EU should do to limit such effects. 🔗 esthinktank.com/2025/07/10/str…

The much-anticipated 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague has seen the 32 Allies pledge to raise their defence spending to 5% of their GDPs by 2035 to meet US President Donald Trump's demands. Check out the following infographic made by Giovanni Gereschi, EST Ambassador to Italy!

With rising global tensions & military rearming, the 3rd meeting of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons sought to defy the dominant narrative that justifies nuclear deterrence. ☢️🚀 But is a world without nuclear weapons still within reach? 🔗esthinktank.com/2025/07/12/is-…

This article analyses how interventions of Great Powers shaped regional security governance in Mali and highlights the limitations of external strategies in producing sustainable peace. ✍️Andrea Campo 🔗esthinktank.com/2025/07/14/the…

This research reveals that while many centre parties adopt tough policies quietly, others engage in explicit rhetoric that can boost radical-right support by up to 8 percentage points. ✍️Hannah Staudenherz; WG Migration 🔗esthinktank.com/2025/07/23/acc…

📌 How do EU externalisation policies affect migrant women & other minorities? This policy brief urges the EU to adopt an integrative approach to consider externalisation policies & their options, not just as a theory but as a tool for real change. 🔗 esthinktank.com/2025/07/25/eu-…

Coming This Monday: The European Policy Review – Volume 8. This year’s theme: 'The Future of the EU Enlargement Process'. Featuring contributions from nine young researchers from across the EU 📅 Launches Monday - stay tuned! #EuropeanPolicyReview #EUEnlargement #EPRVolume8

This article examines the long-term economic implications of EU enlargement, marking how trade, investment & labor market integration can deliver mutual prosperity, as well as the need for deep reforms & credible political will to secure this aim.📊🌍 🔗 esthinktank.com/2025/07/27/eco…

🇺🇸➡️🇪🇺 This infographic analyses the impact of U.S. military disengagement on European security. It highlights key trends in American troop withdrawals, their implications for NATO’s defence posture and risks for European strategic autonomy. ✍️Manal Mouaid

👉 Focusing on the Morocco-Algeria rivalry, this article examines how divergent foreign policy visions, the arms race, and global alliances contribute to a frozen conflict that impacts the entire region. 🌐 🔗 Link: esthinktank.com/2025/07/31/mor…

In this article, I explore how Serbia's student-led protests have reignited a fight for democracy and exposed the EU’s willingness to prioritise geopolitical stability over its fundamental values. ✍️Anastasia Stanković 🔗esthinktank.com/2025/07/30/eu-…