Observatori Predoctoral Fellow Aitor Bonsoms (UAB/IBEI) defended with excellence his PhD Thesis ‘Counterterrorism discourses and practices in Western Europe: institutions, societies, and citizenship in the shadow of new security threats’, supervised by Observatori researcher Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués (IBEI) within the PhD Programme in Politics, Policies & International Relations, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His defense panel included Observatori researchers Juan Pablo Soriano (UAB) as president of the panel and Martijn Vlaskamp (IBEI) as secretary.