The piece expands on our idea of state enhancement — how states can build new capacities to navigate a more fragmented, competitive international environment.

If you’d like to read the original English version, just let me know and I’ll be happy to share it.

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This inward turn risks miscalculation, spillover, and conflict – especially as “enhancement” escapes the lab and crosses borders.

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What looks like a return to 🧭 spheres of influence is actually something messier, harder to manage, and more disruptive.

🔍 We lay out practical insights for 🇪🇺 the EU and 🛡️ NATO to navigate this complex shift.

My latest paper with @roderickp.bsky.social explores an emerging new logic of international competition:

💪 Self-enhancement – not about dominance, but about resilience, rule-bending, and experimentation under pressure.

The scenario is part of a wider project examining the EU's approach to partner governments which collude with criminal actors and its seemingly sanitised vision of Europe's own history

Set five years from now in the fictional Arctic territory of Snøland, the scenario explores themes of post-colonial relations, geostrategic rivalries and the compromises of state-building.

A classic of New Year's LinkedIn 👇

Exactly right!