What to do with Iran?
The relationship of Western countries with Iran is difficult because it is a country with two faces: a reformist face, more familiar and accommodating; and another conservative face, very distant and tough.
International Security
The US and North Korea: will their Presidents shake hands?
The best news we can hope for is that the summit will finally take place and that it will serve to stabilize East Asia.
Coherence and focus on capability priorities: why EDA’s role in CARD, PESCO and EDF matters
A coherent, priority-focused and output-oriented implementation of the new tools is indispensable to boost European defence cooperation. The European Defence Agency (EDA) plays an important role in this respect.
Strategic Communication (StratCom) policies
The European and Japanese StratCom policies have been directed to a foreign and international audiences rather than to reinforcing their cohesion.
NATO and the south: opportunities for coherence and integration
The evolving security environment to Europe’s South poses important challenges to NATO, demanding coherence between projecting stability and collective defence.
The narrowing gap between nuclear and conventional weapons
Nuclear weapons cannot be uninvented, but they can be reinvented. And it seems that this is what we face: not the prospect of a quantitative race this time, but rather a qualitative race.
Libya is sinking even further into the abyss
Whether one looks at the humanitarian situation, or at politics or at security, the overwhelming impression is that Libya is sinking into the abyss.
The Strategic Review of French National Defence and Security in 2017
Although the title suggests otherwise, the Strategic Review is about defence and the French armed forces.
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