Security & Conflict
The triadic nexus: Energy factor, national security and foreign policy
“Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety and variety alone” -Winston Churchill T here is a doctrine in classical geopolitics: “Who controls...
International Cyber Security Cooperation
T he rapid development of digital technologies and wide range of services provided for activities in cyberspace raises the issue of cyber security...
THAAD Mad Bad, Part I: US-China Rivalry in the South China Sea
T he Terminal High Altitude Area Defense is a US Army anti-ballistic missile system designed to shoot down short, medium, and long-range ballistic...
The beginning of a new chapter of proxy war in Afghanistan
After the end of the cold war and end of multi-polar world order many strategists and political analyst believed that is to be the...
NATO and Russia in the Baltic and the North Pole
NATO strategic response to Ukraine's annexation by the Russian Federation in March 2014 is currently focused on the forward defense of the Baltic countries,...
CTBT: A Growing Challenge
With the end of the mutual deterrence between east and the west, and with the nuclearisation of South Asia, number of serious efforts were...
The end of the US-Russian agreement on plutonium
On October 3 last the Russian Federation suspended the agreement reached in 2000 with the United States to downblend the bilateral surplus plutonium for...
The current Syrian issue
In spite of confidentiality, which is obvious in these cases, President Obama’s plan for Syria was announced a few days ago. Firstly, the secret...
The ceasefire in force in Syria as from September 12, 2016
On Saturday, September 10, between Geneva and Munich, the traditional venues for the numberless negotiations on war in Syria, the US State Secretary, John...
Additional ideas on the new role played by OSCE
Germany, especially through his Minister for Foreign Affairs Steinmeier, has long been saying to the Atlantic Alliance that a change of strategy towards the...