Is Russia really a threat?
Although Russia knows that it is needed to resolve many global problems, the country has shrunk in comparison with the US and China
International Security
Syria: a concentrated world war
After six years, the situation in Syria has become a world war on a small, concentrated scale, although with terrible consequences for its inhabitants.
Missile defence in Europe: tying together the technical, political and security dimensions
Missile defence in Europe is evolving and maturing, even if it this is occurring at the margins of public debate. At the same time, there are perceptions that the missile threat is growing. A more sophisticated approach towards missile defence in Europe is required.
Why people join ISIS
Why do young European-Arab Muslims, and converts, go to join the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) to fight or sacrifice themselves?
Obama, the nuclear weaponising deweaponiser
The Obama Administration has embarked on an intensive and costly nuclear modernisation programme, and on a new nuclear weapons race with Russia and China.
Brussels attacks: Challenge to Security and Coexistence
We have to avoid the spread of Islamophobia without losing sight of the challenge that both the Jihadists with their terrorist outrages and the Salafists with their anti-democratic preaching pose to open societies.
The terrorist threat in the EU: expect the unexpected
The terrorist threat to the EU from ISIS is a varied one. In the wake of what happened in Paris boils down the advice that we should ‘expect the unexpected’.
‘Even war has rules’: a call for global action to protect civilians
The deliberate targeting of, and indiscriminate attacks against, civilians are recurrent themes in present-day armed conflicts.
Saudi Arabia vs Iran: the real rivalry in the Middle East
The clash between Saudi Arabia and Iran –two regional superpowers which are both theocracies– is the greatest geopolitical rivalry in the Middle East.
The Paris attacks: another lost opportunity for European defence
This crisis after the Paris attacks would have been a good opportunity to promote a common European defence policy against a common threat.
Paris: a war over an essential not an existential threat
Three days after the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, the French President François Hollande said that ‘France is at war’.
Recent evolution of terrorism in the Maghreb
While Libya has seen an extraordinary rise in terrorist violence, particularly since 2012, the frequency of attacks has been contained in Algeria since 2013, the year when terrorism started to grow considerably in Tunisia. Morocco has been notorious for an absence of attacks since 2011.
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