Co-ordinated by Professor Kevin Featherstone (Hellenic Observatory Centre) and Dr Spyros Economides (European Institute), this cluster brings together researchers from the fields of politics, political science and international relations, as well as from related fields such as security studies, law, public administration, history and others. Some projects currently developing within this cluster include work on Prime Ministers’ crisis management, institutionalisation of evidence-informed policymaking, poly-crises and political trust, regional inequalities and political discontent, and Greece and Cyprus as ‘small state’ foreign policy actors.