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EUSI - The EU Security Initiative at the EUI

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The EU Security Initiative (EUSI) aims to foster forward-looking, values-based dialogue and research on European security and defence. 

Rooted in the EUI’s dual identity as a research university and international organisation, and aligned with its vision for a future EUI, the EUSI aims to construct spaces to productively and critically connect academia and policy. It does so through facilitating a format of structured and recurring exchange between researchers, policymakers, practitioners, private sector and civil society actors across Europe—breaking silos, fostering co-creation, and exploring both urgent and long-term security challenges.

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There and back again : how UK-EU de-institutionalisation after Brexit shaped re-engagement after Ukraine

This article explores how Russia’s 2022 invasion reshaped UK–EU security ties, arguing that Brexit legacies and path dependency have limited and phased, rather than fully renewed, cooperation.

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I sanction therefore I am : a genealogy of the emergence of international sanctioning as an EU foreign policy practice

This thesis traces the EU’s shift from reluctance to becoming a major user of unilateral sanctions, explaining how sanctioning evolved into a central foreign policy practice.

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