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The East Expands into NATO: Japan’s and South Korea’s New Approaches to Security
The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid can be seen as a momentous occasion not just for NATO but also for security in the Asia-Pacific....
The Fate of Ukraine: Can the West Stop Russia?
The options of financial containment are exhausting as Russia bristled through the last obstacle to its domination in the Luhansk province of Donbas. With...
Is ‘NATO-ization’ of Finland the end of ‘Finlandization’ in Europe?
The brutal Russia-Ukraine war threatening to go on for “as long as it takes” is believed to be why Finland and Sweden sought NATO...
Anarchy, Community of States and “Talibans”
The Taliban's re-accession to power in Afghanistan is approaching an anniversary. Representatives of the extreme ethnic movement entered Kabul unopposed on August 15, 2021....
NATO Bracing for a New Security Competition
‘Transformative’ is how NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg described the alliance’s 2022 Madrid summit and rightly so. Held soon after the fateful G-7 summit —...
Ukraine Is Only the Start: Special Operations’ Geopolitical Repercussions Will Transform How We View the World
The Russian Federation's armed forces are still conducting a special operation in Ukraine. Serious changes in the Russian group of forces' operational use are...
Double standards haunt US and Europe in dealings with Turkey and the Middle East
US and European acquiescence in Turkey's long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights came home to roost when Turkey initially objected...
The Folly of a European Security Architecture: Why Peace is Hard to Come?
Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War explains that it was the rise of Athens that caused fear in the minds of the...
Finnish Plans for an Arctic Railway – Geopolitics Are Intervening
Authors: Juho Kähkönen and Soili Nystén-Haarala*
NATO Applicant Finland is an Arctic Country with No Access to the Arctic Ocean.
Finland, with a land border with...
Estonia’s national security concept
The development of regional and global military cooperation is seen as one of the most important pillars of Estonia's security strategy, while a concerted...