Volume 102, Issue 4 (July 2026)

e-ISSN : 1468-2346

Content:

1. Security provision in and beyond Europe: transformed narratives and roles in times of interregnum

2. The transformation of EU and NATO security narratives: towards resilience and total defence?

3. Normative contestation, procedural consensus: the dual politics of EU autonomy narratives in defence, economics and digital policy

4. Cooperation after exit: how informality is sustaining EU–UK cooperation on sanction negotiations

5. The EU's Indo-Pacific strategic narratives: reception and perception gaps in Japan

6. ‘There is only so much you can do from the outside’: EU–UK intelligence-sharing through Brexit and the war in Ukraine

7. Nuclear disarmament in the third nuclear age

8. Stewarding Pax Americana: how core allies respond when the hegemon wavers

9. A hole in the nuclear umbrella? Rethinking European deterrence and escalation management through conventional counterforce
10. Positional power: middle power strategies in an era of institutional rivalry
11. The immature buffer: how Ukraine got caught in an East–West divide—and amplified it
12. The use of special envoys as a microcosm of China's rise? Understanding the shifts in Sino-western envoy engagement in Africa
13. The social and relational life of Islamic State: a queer lens on gender, love and community-making under the caliphate
14. Soft offshore balancing at the canal: China's strategic influence in Panama
15. The limits of language: gender apartheid and public opinion