Dimitris Bouris
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Dimitris Bouris
@dimitrisbouris.bsky.social
Jean Monnet Chair. Associate Professor University of Amsterdam. Visiting Professor at College of Europe (Natolin). Associate Editor @europeansecurity.bsky.social Opinions personal. he/him 🍉
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New OA article: In whose name? Construction of the EUropean agency in the European Union’s institutional discourse on the war in Ukraine by Karolina Garančovská & @monikameislova.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In whose name? Construction of the EUropean agency in the European Union’s institutional discourse on the war in Ukraine
This article examines how European Union (EU) institutions discursively construct EUropean agency in their social media communication on the war in Ukraine, interrogating the legitimising strategie...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM
So much looking forward to this!
January 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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34(4) OA Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it? by Andriy Tyushka & Tracey German:
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Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it?
The SI has sought to cast an “inside-out” perspective on the much-studied competition between the EU and Russia over their shared neighbourhood in the Eastern Europe and Southern Caucasus (EE&SC) r...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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34(4) Free access Introduction: Geostrategic “inbetweenness” as a (mis)fortune of Eastern European neighbours of Russia and the European Union by Andriy Tyushka & Tracey German: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Geostrategic “inbetweenness” as a (mis)fortune of Eastern European neighbours of Russia and the European Union
Research on the nature, ways and effects of EU-Russia competition in their “common neighbourhood” has proliferated over the past two decades, although little attention has been paid so far to analy...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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34(4) OA Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict
by Tracey German: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict
There has been a growing competition between Russia and the European Union (EU) in their common neighbourhood over the past decade, culminating in direct conflict following Russia's invasion of Ukr...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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34(4) Perks and perils of “geostrategic inbetweenness”: the EU–Russia great power competition in the “(un)common neighbourhood” and foreign policy choices of states caught in-between by Andriy Tyushka: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Perks and perils of “geostrategic inbetweenness”: the EU–Russia great power competition in the “(un)common neighbourhood” and foreign policy choices of states caught in-between
Conventional wisdom has it that the “in-between” countries, especially those located between the rivalling great(er) powers, find themselves “between a rock and a hard place”, which neatly reflects...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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34(4) Drive to survive: Lukashenka's foreign policy shifts from simulating multi-vectorism to stealthily bandwagoning with Russia's military adventurism by Ryhor Nizhnikau: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Drive to survive: Lukashenka's foreign policy shifts from simulating multi-vectorism to stealthily bandwagoning with Russia's military adventurism
This article discusses the key patterns of Belarusian foreign policy, identifying causes and explaining patterns of its transformation, particularly after the outbreak of the Belarusian crisis (202...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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34(4) In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections by Kornely Kakachia & Bidzina Lebanidze: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections
This article examines how Armenia and Georgia, two small states navigating the contested geopolitics of the South Caucasus, are devising distinct geostrategies in response to their condition of “in...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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34(4) OA Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration by Dorina Baltag & Amy Eaglestone: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration
Positioned at the intersection of geopolitical tensions, Moldova has grappled with the intricacies and uncertainties of a great power rivalry between Russia and the European Union. Under the leader...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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34(4) Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence by Mykola Kapitonenko: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence
Adopting a lens of geopolitical and geostrategic “inbetweenness”, this article examines the evolution of Ukraine's foreign and security policy in 1991–2025, thereby considering the “shadow” of evol...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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34(4) Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia by Agha Bayramov and Mustafa Ali Sezal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia
This paper investigates how key geopolitical junctures the Second Karabakh War and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine have (re)shaped Azerbaijan's relations with the European Union, particularly ...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Very excited that our 2025 special issue is now published - Perks and Perils of Geostrategic In-Betweenness: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from within the EU-Russia (Un)Common Neighbourhood with Andriy Tyushka & Tracey German as guest editors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...
European Security
Perks and Perils of Geostrategic In-Betweenness: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from within the EU-Russia (Un)Common Neighbourhood. Volume 34, Issue 4 of European Security
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December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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New article: Between ambition and constraint: Spain’s defence planning from the democratic transition to capability-based planning (1977–2005) by Guillem Colom Piella: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Between ambition and constraint: Spain’s defence planning from the democratic transition to capability-based planning (1977–2005)
This article analyses the evolution of Spain’s defence planning between the democratic transition and the institutionalisation of capability-based planning (CBP) in 2005. It argues that, even as Sp...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"Palestine deserves our courage and cannot afford our cowardice." — Ilan Pappé.
December 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Ilan Pappé in Amsterdam in gesprek met @eduardcousin.bsky.social van @therightsforum.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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We are very happy to announce that @mariannalovato.bsky.social will be joining us as an associate editor from January. We're all looking forward to working with Marianna. Thank you to everyone who showed interest in the role - there were many very competitive applications.
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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34(3) OA European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–2022 by @heljaossa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–2022
European strategic autonomy has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, but the discussion has largely been Euro-centric and overlooked the American perspective. This paper addresses t...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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34(3) Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice” by Isabella Neumann www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”
This article assesses the limitations of European Union (EU) documents regarding the sociological aspects of civil–military relations. Although these documents aim to improve the relationship betwe...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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34(3) Power, governance, and coordination in the prevention of violent extremism and terrorism: towards multi-agency counterterrorism? by @aitorbonsoms.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Power, governance, and coordination in the prevention of violent extremism and terrorism: towards multi-agency counterterrorism?
Multi-agency collaboration has been identified in previous studies as a key strategy for early intervention in violent extremism. However, little focus has captured the institutional framework that...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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34(3) From across the globe: understanding the motivations of pro-Ukraine foreign fighters by Naira Arutyunova and Marco Bocchese: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From across the globe: understanding the motivations of pro-Ukraine foreign fighters
To date, the most glaring gap in our understanding of the phenomenon of foreign fighters concerns the motivations that prompted – and continue to prompt – them to enlist in the Ukrainian Internatio...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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34(3) OA NATO's reassurance and the willingness to defend one’s country: survey evidence from Latvia by Toms Rostoks and Inta Mierina: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
NATO's reassurance and the willingness to defend one’s country: survey evidence from Latvia
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brings into question the significance of people’s willingness to defend their respective countries. While there have been many studies of various dom...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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34(3) Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union by @inesbsomoano.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union
The violent attacks of 9/11 marked a pivotal moment in global counter-terrorism, catalyzing a new consensus on terrorism that led to a global “preventive turn” in counter-terrorism policy, particul...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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34(3) OA You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state by Ben Martill and Angelos Chryssogelos: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state
How do leaders respond to costly demands to re-nationalise political control? The re-shaping of state–society relations engendered by globalisation has produced a backlash in the form of populist d...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Issue 34(3) is now published. Interested in Global Britain, counter-terrorism, willingness to fight, transatlantic relations, motivations of foreign fighters, civ-mil or disinformation? Look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...
European Security
Volume 34, Issue 3 of European Security
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September 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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This paper sheds light on dynamics of #indirect transnational governance and #localactor enlistment that underpin EU #security and #counter-terrorism . By championing preventive measures, more easily accepted by Member States because they align with social rather than security policy objectives.
September 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM