Defence spending in Europe is on the rise. The US threat to withdraw its military commitment has focused political discourse. And yet finding a unified response to Russia’s war escalating further in Ukraine and pushing into NATO territory, to Gaza and the Middle East, will be a challenge given Europe’s polarized views on militarization. Eurozine’s
partners, from across Europe and beyond, in once colonial powers, neutral territories, ex-Soviet countries and neo-colonial nations, are well placed to analyse pressing issues from sanctions and pacificism to recruitment, weaponization and civil protection mechanisms.
