ISSUE 1 | October 2025

Research

The War in Ukraine, the Transatlantic Relationship, and the Changing Defense Calculus of Europe, by Metehan Tekinırk
Trade Policy as an Assertion of National Power: Reading Hirschman to Understand the Donald Trump Administration, by Peter Debaere and Manuela Achilles
Infrastructural Fragility in European Digital Scholarship, by Bee Lehman and Tom Van Nuenen
Minority Languages and Professional Football in Europe, by Craig Willis
Patriotic Education: Fascism, Ruscism, and the Pedagogy of Power, from Rome to Moscow, by Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
The Dark Side of Global Ferrante Fever, by Andrew Martino

Interviews

Preparing Ukraine’s Future through Waste Management: An Interview with Sofia Sydorenko, Zero Waste Alliance Ukraine, by Hélène B. Ducros

Art

Mulberry Harbour, by Lieven Engelen

Book Reviews

Silent Architects of Empire: A Review of Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire, by Edina Paleviq
Religious Leadership and Practice in the Eyes of the Soviet Political Police: A Review of The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR, by Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz

Literature in Translation

The Maroons by Louis Timagène Houat, translated from the French by Aqiil Gopee with Jeffrey Diteman
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

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