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Building on the EU-UK relationship: a strategic defence and security partnership for a shared European continent

Margaryta Khvostova, December 2025

Making devolution work: How strategic authorities can develop effective local economic plans

Institute for Government and University of Surrey, June 2025

Geopolitics Rewired: Energy Corridors and the Strategic Reordering of the Middle East (PDF)

Dr Mustafa Demir, Spring 2025

The Spitzenkandidaten process on life support

Paul Adamson, 7 Dec 2023

Navigating complex realities: assessing the EU’s contribution to institutional change in Ukraine

Michael Martin Richter, 5 December 2023

What we learned from the 2023 Polish election

Simona Guerra and Fernando Casal Bértoa, 24 October 2023

Giorgia Meloni: how the realities of office trumped the Italian prime minister’s radicalism

Daniele Albertazzi, 24 October 2023

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