The book series “The Future of Europe: views from the Capitals” is one of TEPSA’s flagship activities. These collections of short chapters, published every year, analyse topical European issues from the perspective of each EU Member State and neighbouring countries, and help understand the future of the European project. The series is edited by Michael Kaeding, Johannes Pollak and Paul Schmidt, and showcases chapters written by researchers from the TEPSA network and beyond.

The latest edition of the book, “Security, Defence, and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals“, compiles domestic perspectives on questions of resilience, rearmament, and strategic autonomy. It examines the past, present and future of security and defence on the continent in 42 national chapters.

Michael Kaeding is a former Chair and current Honorary Board Member of the Trans European Policy Studies Association. He is Director of Studies at the Department of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, and Professor of European Integration and EU Politics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, holding a Jean Monnet Chair.

Johannes Pollak is Rector at Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU). His current research mainly revolves around two topics: political representation in liberal democracies with a focus on parliamentarism in the European Union and European energy policy and geopolitics.

Paul Schmidt is a current Board Member of the Trans European Policy Studies Association. He is Secretary General of the Austrian Society for European Politics in Vienna. He has worked at the National Bank of Austria in Vienna and at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union.