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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

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 disrupted the status quo of the European security order and brought about a re-engagement in the UK–EU security relationship. However, co-operation remains informal and ad hoc in ways that diverge from theoretical expectations of security co-operation in the face of external threats.

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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 proposes a genealogy of the European Union sanctions policy by tracing the emergence of ‘unilateral sanctioning’, conceptualised as a foreign policy practice, through 4 episodes of European sanctions’ history. The dominant approaches investigating sanctions have mainly conceptualised sanctions as mere instruments of foreign policy, neither particularly surprising nor questionable.

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