Will European defence survive Coronavirus?
Given the magnitude of the Coronavirus and its potential impact on the world economy, we may have to expect budget cuts.
International Security
Bias and Misperception in Cyberspace
With cyber operations serving as an instrument of foreign policy, it is fair to posit that cognitive factors that account for behavior in the physical domain are equally applicable to cyberspace.
The Future of Values in Cyber Security Strategies
The challenges that have arisen from an overly technical focus on cyber security that has failed to consider the application of value sets in strategy creation.
The ‘cyber’ priorities among the MENA States
The MENA countries focus seems favour those threats to the model of political stability and social peace defined by the regimes.
A geopolitical Commission? Beware the industrial-strategic gap in EU defence policy
To what extent will the European Commission’s efforts to promote a rationalisation of the European defence industry be based on a common political and strategic vision about the future of European defence?
Aerial international military cooperation: trust and transparency?
Which is the future of the aerial international military cooperation regime whose cornerstone was the enhancement of transparency and mutual trust?
NATO, lacking political guidance and with no arbitrary 2%
When Emmanuel Macron claimed that NATO was ‘brain dead’, he was making the same observation as the child in the story: the Emperor has no clothes.
Cyber Security: How GDPR is already impacting the public-private relationship
For anybody wanting to participate in a public-private relationship within the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the calculus must be weight of the well-known “carrot” gained from collaborative exchange with the new regulatory “stick” being wielded in Europe.
Diplomacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The key question on the mind of policymakers now is whether Artificial Intelligence would be able to deliver on its promises instead of entering another season of scepticism and stagnation.
In virality we trust! The quest for authenticity in digital diplomacy
Virality in digital diplomacy is the new black. For Ministers of Foreign Affairs and diplomats, being on social media is no longer only about presence and networking, but about standing out through the virality of their messages.
Emerging security challenges in NATO’s southern neighbourhood
NATO has always had a southern exposure. Today’s strategic environment provides a new context for this traditional question, but also raises fundamental questions of geography, alliance politics and a shared approach to risks.
Made-to-measure Qur’anic quotations: the incomplete verses of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
More than half the Qur’anic quotations used by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in its propaganda are faithful reproductions of the text but incomplete or truncated.