This monograph is a significant contribution to international relations and national security studies and deserves a wide audience among policy makers.
Hugo Meijer is CNRS Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Center for International Studies (CERI) and the Founding Director of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), a pan-European multidisciplinary network of scholars that share the goal of consolidating security studies in Europe. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Brussels School of Governance, and Honorary Researcher at the Centre for War and Diplomacy, Lancaster University. Previously, he was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, and a Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, Paris).