Luigi Lonardo is a Lecturer in EU law at University College Cork, Ireland, and a visiting Lecturer in European Foreign Security and Defence Policy at Sciences Po in Paris, France. Previously he has been a Lecturer and visiting Lecturer in EU law at King’s College London and at the University of Westminster. He has published articles on EU foreign policy in the European Law Review, the European Constitutional Law Review, European Papers, and the European Foreign Affairs Review.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The context: The EU and Ukraine between Slavophiles and NATO.- Chapter 3: EU Diplomacy: foreign policy response to the war and future EU-Russia relations.- Chapter 4: Law: the use of force, EU sanctions, and assistance to Ukraine.

“These books are part of what is becoming a virtual flood of literature on Russian aggression against Ukraine. ... readers will benefit from the authors’ expert knowledge in their respective disciplines and fields of research—the EU in Lonardo’s case and the war itself in Singh’s edited volume. The most valuable parts of both books are the chapters in which the authors or contributors deal with the topics in which they obviously have the greatest expertise ... .” (Stephen Blank, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, May 6, 2024)