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Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategy & Defence
Drones, or UAVs, were often considered weapons of the future. Before the two world wars in the 20th century, the...
Complex Challenges & Resilience Non-Military Security
The crises of recent years – be it the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, or the climate crisis and...
Global Agenda Non-Military Security
Slovak voter turnout in the past (four) Euro-elections has always been the lowest among all member states. Current polls predict...
Geopolitics Global Agenda
The visit of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his delegation to Azerbaijan on 6-7 May 2024 represented a new impetus...
The most recent February edition of the CEDMO Trends survey, published on a monthly basis by the Central European Digital...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
In February 2024, two years have passed since the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine. From the beginning, the total...
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024, the Turkish Parliament approved Sweden’s candidacy for NATO membership. Thus, after long months of waiting,...
With the June 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections approaching, several political figures and manipulative actors in the Czech Republic, Poland,...
The war in Ukraine has placed China in a challenging position in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland regarding its...
The failure of the summer offensive and the decreasing level of support from allies have led to growing tensions between...
On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, Republicans in the US Congress’s Senate rejected the Biden administration’s request for financial aid worth...
The candidate countries under the enlargement policy have anticipated the European Commission’s assessment of their progress toward joining the European...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
As Ukraine braces itself for another winter amidst a conflict that has lasted nearly two years, the war’s tactics must...
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At the end of September 2023, our think-tank organized the third edition of our flagship conference Disinformation and Democracy. Experts...
Geopolitics Non-Military Security
The long-standing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has come to an end, and it appears that the European Union has not been...
Geopolitics Strategic Thinking
On 19 September 2023, the Azerbaijani armed forces launched an offensive into Nagorno-Karabakh. Within 24 hours, Azerbaijan was able to...
Since Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018, Iran has been steadily expanding its uranium enrichment infrastructure....
The highly anticipated third edition of the “Disinformation & Democracy – The Battle for Hearts and Minds” conference will take...
Despite the diplomatic achievement of Syria’s readmission to the Arab League in May 2023, the Bashar al-Assad regime currently confronts...
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has contributed to Ukraine and Moldova gaining candidate status in June 2023, giving a new impetus...
Details regarding a potential Saudi-Israeli reconciliation brokered by the United States have begun to surface. The triangular bargain between Saudi...
The emergence of AI-generated disinformation has transformed the landscape of information warfare, enabling efficient and widespread creation, amplification, and dissemination...
It has been over a year since Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine commenced on February 24, 2022. Throughout this period,...
Geopolitics Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
For almost a year and a half now, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has been accompanied by numerous cyber operations...
The European Union (EU) institutions have announced the allocation of additional funding to their defence funds – the European Defence...
Executive Summary There is currently an intense debate about scenarios for ending, or at least freezing, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine....
The fall of the Soviet Union ended over 30 years ago, but the Kremlin to this day attempts to maintain...
Although disinformation is hardly a new phenomenon, the internet has enabled the ultimate battle for hearts and minds, and social...
President Bashar al-Assad of the Syrian Arab Republic flew to Saudi Arabia on May 19 to attend the Arab League...
Picture credit: designed by artist Boris Groh/Ukraine Postal Service Summary There is intense public debate over when and how to...
For weeks, many people following the conflict in Ukraine have been waiting for a counteroffensive that would shift the initiative...
Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
By asking ChatGPT “Can AI become a threat to humanity?”, ChatGPT responds, “AI has the potential to become a threat...
Global Agenda Technology and Innovations
The Ostend Declaration reinforces the ambitions of European countries, which have committed to massive wind power generation targets, with an...
Eastern countries of the European Union have introduced a temporary ban on imports of agricultural products from Ukraine in an...
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Szijjártó revisited Moscow, where on April 11, he signed a new contract on energy supplies,...
Military Affairs Strategy & Defence
Several indications show that Ukraine is likely preparing to launch a new military offensive to liberate another part of its...
On February 6 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The quake...
Geopolitics Global Agenda Non-Military Security
On 10 March, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced a ground-breaking agreement to normalize diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in both...
Red lines and nukes Whenever the Ukrainian armed forces achieved something vis-à-vis their Russian foe, and occasionally even without immediate...
On 22 February, the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Azerbaijan must guarantee freedom of movement along the...
Executive Summary The already heated discussion among policymakers and policy shapers in the West on how the Russian-Ukrainian war could...
Military Affairs Technology and Innovations
The US will supply M2/M3 Bradley heavy infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Ukraine. Air Force Brigadier General Pat Ryder, US...
At the beginning of December, the situation between the European Union and Hungary escalated. After Brussels recommended freezing €7,5 billion...
The US Air Force (USAF) and Northrop Grumman unveiled the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber on December 2 at...
Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, and Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, reached an agreement on mutual recognition of territorial...
Ukrainian forces gained the initiative and successfully carried out a counter-offensive in eastern Kharkiv. Its implementation is important in terms...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
On Monday, September 12, 2022, Azerbaijani troops began intensively bombing Armenian military targets on the internationally recognized territory of Armenia....
So far, Kyiv’s significance to Europe has been primarily to transit oil and gas supplies from Russia, which Moscow is...
Military Affairs Non-Military Security
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine came under the control of Russian troops less than a week after the...
Global Agenda Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
After Russia invaded Ukraine last February, the European Union blocked Russia Today and Sputnik, Kremlin‘s two main channels that spread...
Several Taiwanese government websites were attacked by cyber-attacks that appeared to originate from China and Russia during a visit by...
Israeli researchers have revealed how some features of the popular Strava app designed to measure athletic activity via GPS allowed...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Khadimi met with Iranian officials during an official visit to Tehran on June 26. Sources close...
The war in Ukraine and its impact on the global supply of agricultural products, especially grain, has intensified the discussion...
Global Agenda Military Affairs
Turkey has agreed to lift its veto on Sweden and Finland joining NATO, thus removing a key obstacle to the...
Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
The Strategic Compass represents a major political proposal to prevent the risk of “strategic shrinkage”. Strategic shrinkage refers to three...
The African Union (AU) states that have trade relations with the Russian Federation are concerned about the situation in Ukraine....
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has, indirectly, led to a significant strengthening of NATO’s eastern wing defences. In addition to increasing...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated on Saturday that Ankara continues to oppose the accession of Sweden and Finland to...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday, May 23, that Ankara would soon launch a new military incursion in...
In recent years CIMIC became almost a synonym for participation in missions abroad. Most of NATO and EU member countries...
In recent weeks, there have been discussions about the possible involvement of the separatist republic of Transnistria (located between Ukraine...