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Jan Lepeu
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PhD | Sanctions & 🇪🇺 foreign policy | Research Fellow at the EUI & lecturer at Syracuse University Florence. Alumnus UNIGE, LSE, College of Europe. 🇨🇭&🇫🇷
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🚨 New Year, New Publication:

For the upcoming International Politics Forum on the (re-)organising of European Security following the
🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦, I wrote this article focusing on the sanctions pillar of the 🇪🇺 response to the full-scale invasion.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy - International Politics
The February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine constituted a shock to the European Security ecosystem, catapulting it into a new geopolitical era and potentially redistributing the cards of who, how...
link.springer.com
Dans le cadre de la série d’été de @letemps.ch « Mon Europe à moi », je me suis prêté au jeu d’une interview sur mon parcours, l’Europe et ma recherche.
Européen dans l’âme, le chercheur et analyste de politique extérieure Jan Lepeu ausculte les mécanismes de sanctions de l’UE depuis l’Institut universitaire européen de Florence. Porté notamment par les écrits de Stefan Zweig...
Jan Lepeu: «Les débats ne portent plus sur la légitimité de l’UE, mais sur ses politiques. C’est un changement majeur»
l.letemps.ch
August 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It has been a pleasure to attend yet another successful edition (the 7th!) of the ‘Making Sanctions Work’ executive training of @eui-stg.bsky.social , this time in the capacity of scientific coordinator and speaker. We will be coming back next year for the 8th edition !
📸 That's a wrap for the 7th edition of the executive course on Sanctions and EU Restrictive Measures.

💡 Through peer-to-peer networking and simulation case studies, they developed an analytical toolkit to evaluate sanctions from different angles.

#ExEdEUI

Learn more!

🔗 loom.ly/HJn5epE
June 18, 2026 at 10:48 AM
My comments yesterday for the Swiss TV on the listing of former Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud on the EU sanctions regime on 🇷🇺 hybrid threats (in French).

Interview de Jan Lepeu (vidéo), Forum - www.rts.ch/play/tv/redi...
Jacques Baud, l'ex-agent suisse du renseignement, peut à nouveau accéder à ses comptes: interview de Jan Lepeu (vidéo) - Forum - Play RTS
Interview de Jan Lepeu, chercheur à l'institut universitaire européen de Florence, spécialiste des sanctions internationales et de la politique étrangère de l'UE.
www.rts.ch
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Publication alert 🚨 : I'm glad to see that the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions is now available.

I have been entrusted with the contribution on the European Union as a Sanctions Taker 🇪🇺.

➡️European Union doi.org/10.4337/9781...
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I had the privilege this week of being awarded the title of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences from the @eui-eu.bsky.social after successfully defending my thesis on the EU sanctions policy.
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Jan Lepeu
I had the pleasure to appear in Jan Dunin-Wasowicz's podcast to discuss the past, present, and future of EU sanctions. Among other things: how the Russia sanctions differ from previous sanctions, where do EU sanctions come from, and how they have evolved over time.
open.spotify.com/episode/681O...
Episode 03 | April 2025 | Renewed EU-US Convergence? | Jan Lepeu on the History of EU Sanctions
This Month in EU Sanctions · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I had the pleasure to appear in Jan Dunin-Wasowicz's podcast to discuss the past, present, and future of EU sanctions. Among other things: how the Russia sanctions differ from previous sanctions, where do EU sanctions come from, and how they have evolved over time.
open.spotify.com/episode/681O...
Episode 03 | April 2025 | Renewed EU-US Convergence? | Jan Lepeu on the History of EU Sanctions
This Month in EU Sanctions · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Jan Lepeu
How to organize European security? In this International Politics forum, we discuss European actors' choices between orchestrating existing and new institutional layers (compartmentalized multilateralism) or escaping consensus-making with new&old layers @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Reposted by Jan Lepeu
🚨 New Year, New Publication:

For the upcoming International Politics Forum on the (re-)organising of European Security following the
🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦, I wrote this article focusing on the sanctions pillar of the 🇪🇺 response to the full-scale invasion.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy - International Politics
The February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine constituted a shock to the European Security ecosystem, catapulting it into a new geopolitical era and potentially redistributing the cards of who, how...
link.springer.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🚨 New Year, New Publication:

For the upcoming International Politics Forum on the (re-)organising of European Security following the
🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦, I wrote this article focusing on the sanctions pillar of the 🇪🇺 response to the full-scale invasion.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy - International Politics
The February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine constituted a shock to the European Security ecosystem, catapulting it into a new geopolitical era and potentially redistributing the cards of who, how...
link.springer.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Mon intervention hier sur la RTS au sujet du Conseil européen et de la possibilité d’utiliser les revenus des avoirs gelés de la banque centrale russe pour financer l’aide militaire à l’Ukraine.

Sommet de l'Union européenne sur l'Ukraine: interview de Yann Lepeu, Forum - www.rts.ch/play/tv/redi...
Forum - Sommet de l'Union européenne sur l'Ukraine: interview de Yann Lepeu - Play RTS
Interview de Yann Lepeu, chercheur de l'Institut universitaire européen de Florence.
www.rts.ch
March 22, 2024 at 6:10 AM