European Security

Papers
(The median citation count of European Security is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
From words to action: climate security mainstreaming in EU foreign policy105
You’re projecting! Global Britain, European strategic autonomy and the discursive rescue of the internationalised state76
“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*70
Bringing agency back in: neighbourhood countries' perceptions of their hegemonic power relation with the EU and Russia60
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict57
Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor45
Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty36
A new alliance in Europe: the September 2021 defence agreement between Greece and France as a case of embedded alliance formation36
Expertise hubs and the credibility challenge for open-source intelligence: insights from usage patterns of a web-controlled radio receiver and related Twitter traffic in the Ukraine war33
The Arctic potential: cutting the Gordian knot of EU–Russia relations?33
External, non-governmental resistance in relation to interstate war: an analytical framework32
Bring them into the fold. Local actors and transnational governance of preventive counterterrorism in the European Union29
Dragon Power Europe: maturation through hybridisation28
A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order20
Alliance politics and national arms industries: creating incentives for small states?20
Burn after leaving? Recognition denial as strategy in the post-Brexit security relationship19
Virtues and Perils of Forum-Shopping in European Security18
A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story16
Why does European aid to Ukraine vary? A nested analysis of domestic and international drivers16
Beyond binaries: (European) security in feminist and postcolonial perspective15
Matters of care or matters of security: feminist reflections on prosecuting terrorism financing15
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-bet14
Defending the national identity: exploring the links between a multidimensional national identity concept and the willingness to defend one’s country13
Risk vs. threat-based cybersecurity: the case of the EU12
The risk of domino secessions: interdependent secessions and lessons from the Western Balkans11
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces11
Unpacking postcolonial and masculine anxieties: Hungary and Turkey’s responses to the EU’s handling of the 2015–2016 refugee “crisis”10
Guardians of trust: foreign election interference and the institutional logics of democratic resilience among Swedish county governors10
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout9
In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections9
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation9
Sino-Belgian research collaborations and Chinese military power8
Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it?8
In whose name? Construction of the EUropean agency in the European Union’s institutional discourse on the war in Ukraine8
Securitisation and its extensions: a framework for analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine8
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity7
What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine?7
Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration7
Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment7
Strategic cultures between the EU member states: convergence or divergence?7
Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe?7
Formatting European security integration through database interoperability6
Russia’s approach to arms control: caught between asymmetry and the desire for strategic stability6
Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo6
Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes6
Narratives of military involvement: Spain and Portugal's foreign policy discourses in the Kosovo intervention6
European liberal policies towards Syrian refugees: providing dignity as well as security?6
EU´S GAR-SI Sahel project: a piece of the regional security puzzle?5
Europe's defence industrial strategy and the EDTIB: a connectedness-based analysis of major European defence industries5
From prescriptive rules to responsible organisations – making sense of risk in protective security management – a study from Norway5
Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia5
Mystery in civil–military relations! The unknown “European practice”5
Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia5
Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity5
Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence5
Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence?4
The European Union’s missing voice: member states’ forum shopping in military AI governance4
Unveiling military strategic narratives on social media: a civil–military relations perspective4
A boundary-based framework for analysing cross-sector cooperation in societal security – Svalbard case studies4
Make room for me! A study of how climate change and environment landed on Spanish national security4
Norm localisation in the process of crafting national security strategies – the case of the Visegrád countries4
Cooperating tocontrôle: French senators as defence overseers and civil-military actors4
From variation to convergence in turbulent times – foreign and security policy choices among the Nordics 2014–20234
Instrumentalisation of fear and securitisation of “Eastern Borders Route”: the case of Poland-Belarus “border crisis”4
The transnationalisation of military leaders in Central and Eastern Europe and EURO-Atlantic integration3
Chain of negligence: analysis of the decision-making in the proposed sale of Bergen Engines to a Russian- controlled entity3
Transactional hedging versus value-based hedging: how small frontline states balance between European integration and Russian influence3
European strategic autonomy in the transatlantic security context: American perceptions of European security and defence integration 1998–20223
Whose “drone revolution”? Expert-media gaps in perceptions of drone warfare3
Influence of the Russia–Ukraine war on security discourse of Baltic presidents3
“You forgot Poland?” Polish involvement in the Iraq war and its aftermath through a postcolonial lens3
The EU, sanctions and regional leadership3
Bandwagoning by stealth? Explaining Georgia’s Appeasement Policy on Russia3
Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?3
The European Union's use of contractors in security and defence: blazing its own path of institutional change?3
Non-western influence operations in North Macedonia: a reason for concern or push towards the west?3
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