![The wreckage of a building in Ukraine, following Russian shelling (2022). Europe superpower](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240506-broeke-its-time-for-europe-to-think-and-act-as-a-superpower-2-368x240.jpg)
Themes
Security and defence
![The wreckage of a building in Ukraine, following Russian shelling (2022). Europe superpower](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240506-broeke-its-time-for-europe-to-think-and-act-as-a-superpower-2-368x240.jpg)
![NATO, EU and Lithuanian flags in Vilnius. Photo: NATO Summit 2023 -European Union.](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240531-simon-nato-eu-relations-in-wartime-368x240.jpg)
Thinking about NATO-EU relations in wartime
![Views of Bethlehem through the fences in the West Bank, Palestine.](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240517-gonzalez-martinez-opinion-publica-espanola-reconocimiento-estado-de-palestina-368x240.jpg)
Spanish public opinion regarding the recognition of the State of Palestine
![Two European Defence Agency helicopters in an exercise in Hungary. Background: daylight sky.](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240509-fiott-industrial-strategy-future-european-defence-368x240.jpg)
Beyond Strategy? Industrial Strategy and the Future of European Defence
![Volodymyr Zelensky, President of the Republic of Ukraine, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic at the Summit on the war in Ukraine in Normandy at Salle Murat, Palais de l'Elysée.](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240508-giuashvili-france-eastern-zeitenwende-368x240.jpg)
France’s Eastern Zeitenwende?
![Flag of Ukraine waving on a bridge over the Irpin river, next to Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/20240220-ari22-milosevich-ucrania-368x240.jpg)
Ukraine as a mirror: should we pay an insurance premium?
![Gaza border with Israel. Distant view of residential houses in the northern part of the Gaza strip across an Israeli army post](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240123-ari8-lesser-gaza-368x240.jpg)
Gaza and after: a transatlantic security perspective
![Roundtable of the EU - Japan Summit held in Brussels (Belgium) on 13 July 2023. At the table: Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission), Charles Michel (President of the European Council) and Fumio Kishida (Prime Minister of Japan). Japan is the EU’s closest strategic partner in the Indo-Pacific region](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/20231226-ari130-eu-japan-indo-pacific-368x240.jpg)
Future-proofing EU security and defence policies in the Indo-Pacific: doubling down with friends
![Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive of the European Policy Centre (EPC), during the conversation on the Spanish Presidency of the EU](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/20231220-video-fabian-zuleeg-368x240.jpg)
Fabian Zuleeg: Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU and the future of the strategic autonomy
![NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (on the left) and the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida (on the right) during the joint press statements. NATO Secretary General visited Japan in February 2023. Japan-NATO cooperation](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/20231222-ari129-tanaka-japan-nato-cooperation-368x240.jpg)
Benefits and challenges of Japan-NATO cooperation: grand strategic, strategic, and practical level of analysis
![Bilateral meeting with Park Jin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, 29 - 30 January 2023.](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/armaniniestebansimon112823arieng-nato-rok-defence-cooperation-bridging-europe-and-the-indo-pacific3-368x240.jpg)
NATO-ROK defence cooperation: bridging Europe and the Indo-Pacific
![View of the Al Aqsa Mosque, one of the Muslim temples in Jerusalem and a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.](https://media.realinstitutoelcano.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20231114-sicilialozanoarieng-guard-down-deconstructing-the-7-october-policy-defence-and-intelligence-failure-368x240.jpg)