Laura Chappell
@laurachappell.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Surrey, and co-editor of European Security. Views are my own.
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34(4) Drive to survive: Lukashenka's foreign policy shifts from simulating multi-vectorism to stealthily bandwagoning with Russia's military adventurism by Ryhor Nizhnikau: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Drive to survive: Lukashenka's foreign policy shifts from simulating multi-vectorism to stealthily bandwagoning with Russia's military adventurism
This article discusses the key patterns of Belarusian foreign policy, identifying causes and explaining patterns of its transformation, particularly after the outbreak of the Belarusian crisis (202...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
34(4) Drive to survive: Lukashenka's foreign policy shifts from simulating multi-vectorism to stealthily bandwagoning with Russia's military adventurism by Ryhor Nizhnikau: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(4) In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections by Kornely Kakachia & Bidzina Lebanidze: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections
This article examines how Armenia and Georgia, two small states navigating the contested geopolitics of the South Caucasus, are devising distinct geostrategies in response to their condition of “in...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
34(4) In-between who? Armenian and Georgian shifting perceptions and geostrategies of inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian power projections by Kornely Kakachia & Bidzina Lebanidze: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(4) OA Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration by Dorina Baltag & Amy Eaglestone: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration
Positioned at the intersection of geopolitical tensions, Moldova has grappled with the intricacies and uncertainties of a great power rivalry between Russia and the European Union. Under the leader...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
34(4) OA Furthest away from Russia and ever closer to the EU? Moldova hedging its bets on alternating alignments and (differentiated) dis/integration by Dorina Baltag & Amy Eaglestone: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(4) Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence by Mykola Kapitonenko: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence
Adopting a lens of geopolitical and geostrategic “inbetweenness”, this article examines the evolution of Ukraine's foreign and security policy in 1991–2025, thereby considering the “shadow” of evol...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
34(4) Ukraine’s geostrategic responses to the challenges of geopolitical “Inbetweenness”: from multivectorism to (under)balancing and fighting the war of independence by Mykola Kapitonenko: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(4) 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-between by Andriy Tyushka: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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-between
Conventional wisdom has it that the “in-between” countries, especially those located between the rivalling great(er) powers, find themselves “between a rock and a hard place”, which neatly reflects...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
34(4) 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-between by Andriy Tyushka: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(4) OA Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict
by Tracey German: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
by Tracey German: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict
There has been a growing competition between Russia and the European Union (EU) in their common neighbourhood over the past decade, culminating in direct conflict following Russia's invasion of Ukr...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
34(4) OA Exercising power in the common neighbourhood: the EU and Russia between cooperation, competition, and conflict
by Tracey German: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
by Tracey German: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(4) OA Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it? by Andriy Tyushka & Tracey German:
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Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it?
The SI has sought to cast an “inside-out” perspective on the much-studied competition between the EU and Russia over their shared neighbourhood in the Eastern Europe and Southern Caucasus (EE&SC) r...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
34(4) OA Eastern Europe post-February 2022 – embracing geostrategic “in-betweenness” or bracing against it? by Andriy Tyushka & Tracey German:
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34(4) Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia by Agha Bayramov and Mustafa Ali Sezal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia
This paper investigates how key geopolitical junctures the Second Karabakh War and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine have (re)shaped Azerbaijan's relations with the European Union, particularly ...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
34(4) Geostrategic “inbetweenness”: navigating Azerbaijan–EU relations amidst geopolitical flux with Russia by Agha Bayramov and Mustafa Ali Sezal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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34(3) OA Black knight NGOs and international disinformation by @karinashyrokykh.bsky.social & @martinkragh.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Black knight NGOs and international disinformation
Movements based on conspiracy theories and a fundamental rejection of liberal values are on the rise in traditionally democratic societies and those with authoritarian legacies. This article develo...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
34(3) OA Black knight NGOs and international disinformation by @karinashyrokykh.bsky.social & @martinkragh.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....