Joris van Bladel

. https://www.egmontinstitute.be/staff/joris-van-bladel/ Dr. Joris Van Bladel is Senior Associate Fellow in the ‘Europe in the World’ programme at the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations. He studied Social and Military Sciences at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels and Slavic Languages and Eastern European Cultures at Ghent University and holds a PhD in Arts from the University of Groningen. His doctoral research, The All-volunteer Force in the Russian Mirror: Transformation without Change (2004), explored the persistence of military traditions …