2026 European Security Studies Conference

Name: 2026 European Security Studies Conference
Start: 2026-06-11T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Stockholm University

11–12 Jun 2026 Annual Conference

Stockholm University

Europe/Stockholm timezone

Contact

contact@eiss-europa.com

Speaker List

Mia Abdić
- Speaker at Criminalising Solidarity: Border Securitisation, Non-State Actors, and Vernacular Humanitarianism in Europe
Jasmin Ahić (Dean Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security Studies)
- Speaker at Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Edge of European Stability
Baptiste Alloui-Cros (Oxford University)
- Speaker at Learning from Ukraine: The West must be prepared for positional warfare
- Speaker at Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war
Mitko Arnaudov (Institute of International Politics and Economics)
- Speaker at Small states in the current international war agenda: Between shelter seeking and souverenism
Gulzhan Asylbek kyzy (UNU-MERIT)
- Speaker at State fragility, power sharing institutions and group inequalities
- Speaker at State fragility, power sharing institutions and group inequalities
Tahir Azad (Department of Politics & IR, University of Reading, UK)
- Speaker at From Precision to Existential Risk: Hypersonic Weapons and the Erosion of the Conventional–Nuclear Divide
Dunia Baban (Stockholm University)
- Speaker at Water In-Security and Climate Migration in Iraq Analyzing Socio-Economic Threats
Kire Babanoski (Faculty of Security - Skopje, University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Bitola, North Macedonia)
- Speaker at Western Balkan Criminal Groups and the Transformation of Regional Security
Sarah Backman (Försvarshögskolan)
- Speaker at Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity
Gil Baram (UC Berkeley and Bar Ilan University)
- Speaker at Resilience-by-Design in the Information Age: Tabletop Evidence on AI-Enabled Cybercrime, Coordination, and Public Trust
Kurt Bassuener (Democratization Policy Council, Sarajevo)
- Speaker at Filling the EU’s Identity Void from Without and Within – Forging a Geopolitics of Values
Jordan Becker (United States Military Academy, West Point, Brussels School of Governance, Ecole de Guerre (IHEDN, IRSEM))
- Speaker at NATO Military Capabilities and the Russian Threat: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the 2014 Russian Invasion
- Speaker at Technology and Labor Share in Defense: Technological Advancement and Capital-Labor Substitution
Joseph Black (Chiang Mai University, King's College London)
- Speaker at Soft Power as Deterrence: Non-Kinetic Strategy and Alignment Politics in U.S.–China Competition
Tyler Bowen (United States Naval War College)
- Speaker at Upload Pending? Tradeoffs, Uncertainty, and Damage-Limitation in a Multipolar Age
Alexandra Brankova (Swedish Defence University)
- Speaker at Amplification of Russian Geopolitical Narratives on VKontakte: Studying Tsargrad’s audience engagement and the construction of the enemy before and after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Niklas Bremberg
- Speaker at Cooperation under Stress: Organisational Compatibility and NATO–EU Cooperation in a Fractured Transatlantic Order
Lucian Bumeder (IFSH)
- Speaker at A Shadow in the Clouds: Where Is Germany’s Missile Posture Heading?
- Speaker at A Shadow in the Clouds: Where Is Germany’s Missile Posture Heading?
Ludovica Castelli
- Speaker at Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Cornelia Čekal (Central European University)
- Speaker at Advisors or Advocates? The European Defence Industry as a Political Actor in EU Policymaking
Mae Chow (National University of Singapore)
- Speaker at A Typology of Small State Agency: Southeast Asian States in US-China Submarine Cable Competition
SANDRA CVIKIĆ (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Regional Center Vukovar)
- Speaker at Pitfalls of Transitional Justice and (In)Security in the Western Balkans: Case Study of Serbia
- Speaker at Pitfalls of Transitional Justice and (In)Security in the Western Balkans: Case Study of Serbia
Jéssica da Costa Pereira (NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
- Speaker at No Woman's Land: Securitisation of Female Forced Migration in Afghanistan
july decarpentrie (fhs)
- Speaker at Plus ca Change: Continuity in the French Nuclear Approach.
- Speaker at Plus ça change Continuity in the French Nuclear Approach
Linde Desmaele (Leiden University)
- Speaker at What are tactical nuclear weapons for? The multiple logics of NATO’s theater nuclear posture
- Speaker at Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Marc DeVore (University of St. Andrews)
- Speaker at Winning the Battles of Innovation and Production: How Russia and Ukraine Mobilize STEM Expertise and Industry
Fabio Duarte (Czech Technical University / Charles University)
- Speaker at Vectorial Analysis of Hybrid Warfare: Directionality, Interaction, and Systemic Effects
Filip Ejdus (University of Belgrade)
- Speaker at From Normalisation to Strategic Stabilisation: Geopolitisation of the Pristina–Belgrade Dialogue within EU Enlargement
- Speaker at Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood
Jennifer Erickson
- Speaker at Legitimating the Bomb: US Efforts to Manage Public Information about Nuclear Weapons after World War II
Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University)
- Speaker at Ritual deterrence, magic strategies, and nuclear war in Europe
- Speaker at The politics of deterrence in Europe
Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)
- Speaker at An attack from all angles: a multi-disciplinary approach to defence wargaming and artificial intelligence
Thomas Fraise (University of Copenhagen/Sciences Po)
- Speaker at The politics of deterrence in Europe
Fiona Galvis
- Speaker at “A Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never be Fought”: Analyzing the U.S. Response to Russian Nuclear Threats in Ukraine
- Speaker at “A Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never be Fought”: Analyzing the U.S. Response to Russian Nuclear Threats in Ukraine
Eliza Gheorghe (Bilkent University)
- Speaker at Fragile Control: How De Facto States Degrade Nuclear Security in the Donbas
Marius Ghincea (European University Institute)
- Speaker at Domestic Politics and Military Aid to Ukraine: Explaining Disclosure Policies in France and Germany
Archishman Ray Goswami (DPhil International Relations, University of Oxford)
- Speaker at Speak through the Nocturne: Navigating Strategic Interest in Intelligence Diplomacy
- Speaker at Speak through the Nocturne: Navigating Strategic Interest in Intelligence Diplomacy
Mariya Grinberg (MIT)
- Speaker at Anticipated Failure: Why States Go to War Un(der)prepared
Gürkan Gür (Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW)
- Speaker at Quantum-Resilient SATIN and European Digital Sovereignty
Kristen Harkness (University of St. Andrews)
- Speaker at Winning the Battles of Innovation and Production: How Russia and Ukraine Mobilize STEM Expertise and Industry
Isabelle Haynes (Charles University)
- Speaker at Explaining Heterogeneity in Public Support for Collective Defense in NATO: Evidence from a Cross - National Survey of Allied Countries
Wendy He (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU))
- Speaker at The Confidence Trap: Leader-Advisor Deliberations and the Making of (In)Credible Threats
John Helferich (EISS)
- Speaker at From Failing Forward to Fearing Forward: European Security and the Politics of Reassurance
Troels Burchall Henningsen (Royal Danish Defence University)
- Speaker at Working in the Margins: Can Small State Special Operations contribute to Deterrence?
- Speaker at Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war
Natalia Henry (UPenn)
- Speaker at Proliferating Punishment: Assessing the Effectiveness of Russia’s Long-Range Drone Strike Campaign
- Speaker at Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war
Kenan Hodžić (University of Sarajevo - Lecturer)
- Speaker at Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Edge of European Stability
- Speaker at Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Edge of European Stability
Michael Hunzeker (George Mason University)
- Speaker at Fortifying the Eastern Flank: Leveraging Historical Lessons to Create Effective Defence Systems
Elisabetta Ginevra Iida (University of Padova)
- Speaker at The Gender dimension of LIO contestation
Clara Jammot
- Speaker at Financial (In)Security, TikTok, and the Far-Right Pipeline
Ilker Kalin (Stockholm University)
- Speaker at Socialized to Cooperate? Foreign Military Training and Coordination in UN Peacekeeping Operations
Yagnyashri Kodaru (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
- Speaker at The Self-Reliance Dilemma in Conventional Weapons: When does India Innovate Instead of Import?
Pavlos Koktsidis (Anatolia American University of Greece)
- Speaker at The Geopolitics of Security in the Middle East: Exploring the Nexus of State and Non-State Actors in the formation of Power Blocs
Marko Kovačević (University of Belgrade)
- Speaker at Geopoliticisation of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership: A Role-Theoretical Perspective
Nicolas Krieger (Technical University of Munich)
- Speaker at Selling the Future of War: Discursive Power and Military Innovation
Tijana Rečević Krstić (University of Belgrade)
- Speaker at Geopoliticisation of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership: A Role-Theoretical Perspective
Frank Kuhn (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF))
- Speaker at From Rogue States to Russia: How Threat Perceptions Drove Congressional Support for Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons, 1993–2020
Alexander Lanoszka
- Speaker at Fortifying the Eastern Flank: Leveraging Historical Lessons to Create Effective Defence Systems
Christopher David LaRoche (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Central European University)
- Speaker at 'Europe is Not a Country': Nuclear Patronage and Eurodeterrence Concerns in the Frontline States
- Speaker at Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Tobias Liebetrau (University of Copenhagen)
- Speaker at Knowing cybersecurity: The epistemic infrastructural power of big tech
Eugenio Lilli (UCD)
- Speaker at Strategic Alignment: Explaining Iran's Integration of Offensive Cyber Operations into its Military Strategy
Johannes Lucht
- Speaker at The Strategic Logic of Violence During Negotiations
Jacklyn Majnemer (LSE)
- Speaker at Patterns of Foreign Nuclear Deployment: Understanding Host State Refusal in NATO
- Speaker at Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Andro Mathewson (KCL)
- Speaker at Proliferating Punishment: Assessing the Effectiveness of Russia’s Long-Range Drone Strike Campaign
- Speaker at Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war
Daniela Mechkaroska (University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle”, Ohrid, N.Macedonia)
- Speaker at AI-Driven Cloud Monitoring and Cyber Situational Awareness in European Digital Infrastructures
Dumitru Minzarari
- Speaker at NATO’s Deterrence Posture in the Baltic Region: Incentive Loopholes and Counter-Escalation
Giles Moon (Oxford University)
- Speaker at Learning from Ukraine: The West must be prepared for positional warfare
- Speaker at Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war
Saurav Narain (Leiden University)
- Speaker at Interpreting Counterterrorism in African Conflict Management
Alex Neads (Durham University / EUI)
- Speaker at Specialising for Security Assistance? Trainers, operators and the (partial) diffusion of military practice
ISABELLA NEUMANN (University of Coimbra)
- Speaker at Cyber as Security by Other Means: Implications for Civil–Military Relations
Ida Maria Oma (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies)
- Speaker at Weak-actor deterrence communication
Saman Omar (College of Humanity, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia)
- Speaker at Water In-Security and Climate Migration in Iraq Analyzing Socio-Economic Threats
Heljä Ossa (London School of Economics)
- Speaker at The politics of deterrence in Europe
Benoît Pelopidas (Sciences Po)
- Speaker at Nuclear Futures, Utopias, and the Case for a Renewed ‘Strict Sufficiency’
- Speaker at The politics of deterrence in Europe
Vasiliki Plessia Aravani (Diplomatische Academie Wien)
- Speaker at NATO as an Innovation Hub? How Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Are Reshaping Allied Innovation
Alexandra Prodromidou ((York Europe Campus, Business School, Southeast European Research Centre (SEERC))
- Speaker at From Normalisation to Strategic Stabilisation: Geopolitisation of the Pristina–Belgrade Dialogue within EU Enlargement
Cornel Racoveanu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest)
- Speaker at Climate Change, Environmental Crime, and the Governance of Non-Traditional Security in Europe
Anna Luisa Reinhardt (Sciences Po, Northern German Lutheran Church)
- Speaker at Artistic Resilience-Building in Lithuania’s Local Security Policy
Mark Rhinard (Stockholm University)
- Speaker at Cooperation under Stress: Organisational Compatibility and NATO–EU Cooperation in a Fractured Transatlantic Order
Marie Robin (Université Paris Panthéon-Assas)
- Speaker at From rebels’ to State’s justice: post-conflict justice choices in 2026 Syria
Emma Rosengren (Stockholm University)
- Speaker at Reconceptualizing nuclear deterrence and national identity: the cases of Finland and Sweden
- Speaker at The politics of deterrence in Europe
Martijn Rouvroije (Netherlands Faculty of Military Sciences)
- Speaker at Conceptual Inquiry into Military Deep Operations: A Framework for Analysis
- Speaker at Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war
Martijn Rouvroije (Netherlands Defence Academy - Faculty of Military Sciences)
- Speaker at Conceptual Inquiry into Military Deep Operations: A Framework for Analysis
Sara Russo (Centre for High Defence Studies (CASD))
- Speaker at Influence as Strategic Infrastructure: China, NATO, and Competition Below the Threshold of War
Elisabeth Saar (Hamburg University)
- Speaker at Living with the nuclear: Spatio-temporal entanglements, nuclear cultures, and the afterlives of uranium mining
Kaija Schilde (Boston University)
- Speaker at The EU as a 21st Century Security State, Formed by Geopolitics and Bellicist Threat
Samuel Seitz (University of Oxford)
- Speaker at Limit to Win It: A Typology of Competitive Arms Control Practices
Anna Seliverstova (Linnaeus University)
- Speaker at Telegram in Russia’s Information Strategy: Evidence from Serbia
SENADA SELO SABIC (Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia)
- Speaker at Peace as Stalemate: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Forever Missions and the Strategic Logic of Frozen Peace
Mattia Sguazzini (University of Genova, Italy)
- Speaker at Do Parliaments Dream of Cyber Power? Parliamentary Scrutiny in the Strategic Domain of Cyberspace
Lorenz Sommer (Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich)
- Speaker at Classical geopolitics in cyberspace: Explaining cyber state behaviour with power position
Alexander Sorg (Hertie School)
- Speaker at Conceptualizing Nuclear Umbrellas
- Speaker at Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes
Krunoslav Štengl (Deception through the prism of Lacanian psychoanalysis)
- Speaker at Russian Methods of Reflexive Control as Scenarios of Deception
Teodora Stoicescu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
- Speaker at Gendering Non-Traditional Security: A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Violence, Reconciliation and Post-War Development in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Colombia
Sonja Stojanovic Gajic (Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, the University of Rijeka and the Centre for International Security of the Faculty of Political Science, the University of Belgrade3)
- Speaker at From Normalisation to Strategic Stabilisation: Geopolitisation of the Pristina–Belgrade Dialogue within EU Enlargement
Tim Thies (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg)
- Speaker at Sending the Wrong Signals: When Armaments Worry Allies
Nikolaos Tzifakis (University of the Peloponnese)
- Speaker at EU’s Ontological Security and Geopolitical Enlargement
- Speaker at Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood
Barbora Valockova (National University of Singapore)
- Speaker at A Typology of Small State Agency: Southeast Asian States in US-China Submarine Cable Competition
Milan Varda (University of Belgrade)
- Speaker at Geopoliticisation of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership: A Role-Theoretical Perspective
Dumitru-Catalin Vasile (National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania)
- Speaker at From Platforms to Networks: The Political Hurdles of Transitioning to Data-Centric Warfare
Jane Vaynman (SAIS Johns Hopkins)
- Speaker at Disclosure and Duplicity: How Technology Influences International Competition
Faye Ververidou (York Europe Campus, Business School, Southeast European Research Centre (SEERC))
- Speaker at From Normalisation to Strategic Stabilisation: Geopolitisation of the Pristina–Belgrade Dialogue within EU Enlargement
Vladyslav Vilihura
- Speaker at From National Incident Response to Zero Trust: Bridging Cyber Defence Policy and Technical Implementation in Wartime Ukraine
Tristan Volpe (IFSH University of Hamburg / Naval Postgraduate School)
- Speaker at Disclosure and Duplicity: How Technology Influences International Competition
Hannah-Sophie Weber (University of Oxford)
- Speaker at The Politics of Visibility in Belarusian Digital Resistance
Moritz Weiss (LMU Munich)
- Speaker at Governing cybersecurity and the politics of state control in the digital age
Crystal Whetstone (Bilkent University)
- Speaker at Are Tradwives Making Social Reproduction Great Again? How Male Supremacist Women Strengthen Far-Right Extremism, Militarism and War
Yijun Xu (Free University of Berlin)
- Speaker at Mapping Plural Visions of Peace: The Peace Cube as an Analytical Framework
Rusudan Zabakhidze (Swedish Defence University)
- Speaker at Beyond the State: Voluntary Civilian Pro-Defence Organisations and Security Governance in Georgia
Pieter Zhao (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Speaker at From Privateers to Private Maritime Security: Irregular Maritime Actors and the Long History of Delegated Security at Sea
Samuel Zilincik (Masaryk/Leiden University)
- Speaker at Revisiting Multi-Domain Operations: A Historical Reflection on the Respective Roles of Combination and Prioritisation in the Conduct of War

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