Name: EISS 2025 - Annual Conference
Start: 2025-06-26T08:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-06-27T19:20:00+03:00
Location: University of Macedonia

EISS 2025 - Annual Conference

from Thursday, 26 June 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 27 June 2025 (19:20)

Monday, 23 June 2025
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Thursday, 26 June 2025

09:00 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Main Hall & Conference Room Foyer

09:30 Introductory Remarks

09:30 - 10:00
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
10:00 Cybersecurity and digital technologies in international security, strategy, and global power relations
10:00 - 11:25
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Contributions

10:00 Regulatory Asymmetries in Cryptocurrency Governance: Implications for Sanctions Evasion - Orfeas Anastasios Koidis (Rijkuniversiteit Groningen)

10:20 Competitive Cyber Statecraft of the Middle-Ground: A Neoclassical Realist Model - Arthur Laudrain (King's College London - Department of War Studies)

10:40 Infrastructural frontlines of (dis)information: data territoriality in the Russian war against Ukraine - Louis PETINIAUD (GEODE - French Institute of Geopolitics, Paris 8 University)

11:00 Online military influencers in a social media age - Anders Puck Nielsen (Royal Danish Defence College)
11:30 Military Technology
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Contributions

11:30 Does Preeminence in Emerging and Military Technologies Matter for International Status and Prestige? Experimental Study - Zakir Rzazade (Charles University)

11:50 What’s Got You So Worried? The Replicator Initiative and US Techno-Anxieties in an Age of Great Power Competition - Tom Watts (Royal Holloway, University of London (Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow))

12:20 The Erosion of Traditional Deterrence: Space as a Case Study in Military Transformation - Raoul Cardellini Leipertz (LUMSA University)
War and Strategy
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Teleconference Room
Contributions

11:30 Reanimating Grand Strategy in Volatile Times - Alexander Evans (London School of Economics)

11:50 The Strategy of Subversion: National Security between Warfare and Diplomacy - Henrik Breitenbauch (Royal Danish Defence College) Niels Byrjalsen (University of Copenhagen)

12:30 Assisting to Win? Military Assistance and Coercion in War - Kersti Larsdotter (Swedish Defense University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Roundtable 1: Nuclear Coercion
Nuclear Coercion
14:00 - 15:25
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
15:30 Military Interventions
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Contributions

15:30 The “Transparent Battlefield” and its Implications for Western Movement and Maneuver Warfighting - Friso Stevens (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies)

15:50 Helping your friends in need? Military Interventions and the Reliability of Defense Cooperation Agreements - Margit Bussmann

16:10 The Resistance Operating Concept’s Deterrent to Impress: Distinct Causal Theories of Success. - Martijn Rouvroije (Netherlands Defence Academy - Faculty of Military Sciences)

16:30 Negotiation of front ends and back ends in NATO military advisory missions - Anders Klitmøller (The Royal Danish Defence College) Anne Obling (The Royal Danish Defence College)
Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Teleconference Room
Contributions

15:30 Big tech at war: The infrastructural politics of public-private relations - Tobias Liebetrau (University of Copenhagen)

15:50 We Are Peers Now: States’ Relations with Violent Non-State Actors That Became State/Sub-State Actors - Ido Gadi Raz (PhD fast track student of International Relations)

16:10 Private military companies as proxy forces in international politics with special reference to the Russian Wagner Group/African Corps and its operations in Africa - Theo Neethling (University of the Free State)

16:30 From Revolt to Rule: Insurgency as Proto-State Formation - Marnix Provoost
17:00 Poster Session / Coffee Break
Poster Session / Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Conference Room Foyer

17:30 Keynote: Keynote
Keynote
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Friday, 27 June 2025
10:00 Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance: Studies in (Re)Alignments
Studies in (Re)Alignments
10:00 - 11:25
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Contributions

10:00 The Delegation of Defense and Security Responsibilities at Sea in Historical Perspective - Pieter Zhao (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

10:20 Do Principles Become Agents? Security Assistance between cooptation and orchestration - Jean Marie Reure (University of Genoa)

10:40 Beyond Exit: Examining Protégés' Intra-Alliance Bargaining Strategies - Maximilian Krebs (University of Greifswald)

11:00 Advancing authoritarian alignment? A systematic mapping of defense diplomacy between China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran - Sabine Mokry (IFSH)
European Transformations in the Organization of Security
10:00 - 11:25
Room: Teleconference Room
Contributions

10:00 Belgium’s Defence Policy After the Invasion of Ukraine: A Free Rider’s Business-as-Usual Approach - Michelle Haas Tim Haesebrouck (Ghent University)

10:20 PARADIGM PARADOX: HOW EMERGING CYBERSECURITY COMMUNITIES MODERATE EU GOVERNANCE - Hannah-Sophie Weber (University of Oxford)

10:40 Geopolitical Europe: The European Union as a signaling actor in the Russia-Ukraine war - Nicolas Blarel (Leiden University)

11:00 ’Total Defence’ and Transformations in the Making of European Security - Andreas Kruck (LMU Munich)
11:30 Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance: New Research Directions
New Research Directions
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Contributions

11:30 Sweden and the League of Nations: The partisan contestation of national identity and collective security - Zigne Edström (Stockholm University)

11:50 Small State Defense Cooperation and Security Strategies in a Changing Global Order - Revecca Pedi (University of Macedonia)

12:10 Common Threat, Diverging Responses? Explaining European States’ Military Spending After the War in Ukraine - Michelle Haas Tim Haesebrouck (Ghent University)

12:30 Informal is the New Normal: Command and Control as the Choice for the Functional Source of Security Commitment - Joseph Christian Agbagala (Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich)
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Teleconference Room
Contributions

11:30 Strategic Stability Without Arms Control - Jamie Withorne (Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo)

11:50 The Soviet Union/Russia and the spread of the bomb - Lydia Wachs (Stockholm University)

12:10 The Universalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons : Lessons from the CWC and BWC and the Role of Customary International Law - Agata Bidas (University of Vienna)

12:30 Changing Pathways to the Bomb - Eliza Gheorghe (Bilkent University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance: Reforms in European Security
Reforms in European Security
14:00 - 15:25
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"
Contributions

14:00 Reassessing European Security: The drivers of NATO’s response to hybrid threats since 2014 - Laura Lisboa

14:20 The EU’s Collective Defence Framework: A Law-in-Context Analysis of Article 42.7 TEU Amid the War in Ukraine - Federica Fazio (Dublin City University)

14:40 Can European Defence Cooperation Build European Deterrence? - Fotini Bellou (University of Macedonia)

15:00 Building integrity: emergence of a norm of fighting corruption in defense sector - Islam Jusufi (Independent Researcher, Skopje, North Macedonia)
Political Economy, Technology and the Defence Industry
14:00 - 15:25
Room: Teleconference Room
Contributions

14:00 Examining the Factors Behind the EU’s Defence Innovation System - Cezary Wereszko (University of Nottingham)

14:20 Russian Countertrade as a Mechanism for Promoting Arms Sales and Diplomatic Influence - Jonata Anicetti (LISD, Princeton University)

14:40 Innovation and engineering at the front: the Ukrainian case of Unmanned Systems - Emilie Berthelsen (Royal Danish Defence College & Technical University of Denmark)

15:00 Dynamics of Defense Indigenization: state-private relations in India’s quest for self-reliance - Yagnyashri Kodaru
15:30 Roundtable 2: How to Publish in Security Journals
How to Publish in Security Journals
15:30 - 16:55
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"

17:00 Poster session / Coffee break
Poster session / Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Conference Room Foyer

17:30 Award: Award of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize
Award of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize
17:30 - 17:45
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"

17:45 Concluding Remarks

17:45 - 18:00
Room: Conference Room "Ilias Koukouvelis"

18:00 Cocktail
Cocktail
18:00 - 19:00

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