Cristina Vanberghen

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Prof Dr. Cristina Vanberghen, YSU, Faculty of International Relations, Yerevan State University.

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Italy’s Perspective: What the Yerevan EPC Revealed About Europe’s Diverging Strategic Voices

Much has been said about France’s engagement in Armenia, and for good reason. Paris has been one of the most visible European actors in...

Yerevan and the End of Europe’s Comfortable Politics

The European Political Community (EPC) meeting in Yerevan is being framed as another milestone in Europe’s post-Ukraine diplomatic architecture. It is a stress test....

Trump’s AI Strategy Exposes Europe’s Strategic Ambiguity

In a move to ensure U.S. global leadership in AI, on March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration announced a comprehensive AI strategy. The strategy...

Seeds of Change: How LadyAgri Empowers Women to Lead Africa’s Agri-Food Revolution

Introduction: Sharing What Works One might say that in Brussels, much like in the finest salons of society, conversations are abundant-diagnoses even more so. Food...

From “Friends of Tomorrow” to Firestorm: Europe’s Shrinking Leverage in the Iran Crisis

The present confrontation, marked by air strikes, and political tensions among EU states about the nature of their strategic alliances, must be seen against...

Rubio’s Recalibration: Eight Lessons for Europe’s Strategic Future

When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the Munich Security Conference, European officials did not hear rupture. They heard recalibration.Rubio’s speech was conciliatory...

Europe’s Push to ‘Think Big Again’ Is Testing the Limits of Unity

The informal EU leaders’ summit at Alden Biesen was presented as a discussion about competitiveness. In practice, it laid bare a more uncomfortable truth:...

European Union’s Stage: From Crisis to Strategic Renewal

Right now, the European Union is in a position not unlike the Gran Teatro Cervantes in Tangier. Built in 1913 as a cultural landmark...

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Greenland in the Davos Spotlight

The article on “Europe’s Arctic Moment: Greenland, NATO, and the Strategic Imperative at Davos”, published two days ago on Substack and today in Modern...

Europe’s Arctic Moment: Greenland, NATO, and the Strategic Imperative at Davos

When Erik the Red named the land Greenland in the latter part of the 10th century, he realized a timeless truth about politics that...

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