A 1,600-kilometre pipeline which lies empty is an unusual sight. All the more so when it links two continents (Africa […]
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A 1,600-kilometre pipeline which lies empty is an unusual sight. All the more so when it links two continents (Africa […]
Read moreThe successful pursuit of Russia’s great-power status and its recognition by the West imply the preservation of pre-eminent positions, above […]
Read moreAfter the Ukraine crisis, Moscow has learnt that narratives on a potent “China-Russia alliance” can be weaponised to influence the […]
Read moreRussia views Central Asia as its sphere of influence and attempts to keep the five post-Soviet countries, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, […]
Read moreMedia control has been a key part of Vladimir Putin’s exercise of power. Recently, however, the repression of freedom of […]
Read moreMoscow increasingly views the ‘Collective West’ as an offensive actor and the High North as terrain for NATO ‘expansion’. Norway […]
Read moreMaintaining the ruling party’s overwhelming majority was an obsession for the Kremlin, regardless of the growing dissatisfaction. The election result, […]
Read moreIt is two year’s time since the beginning of the market operation (1 July 2019), yet the model retains administrative […]
Read moreThe goals of this study include independent expert assessment of the situation in the field of Ukraine-EU security partnership in […]
Read moreAssociate researchers of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs: Vineta Kleinberga and Elizabete Vizgunova recently published their article: “Media Narratives […]
Read moreThe German journal Internationale Politik, Germany’s magazine for global thinking, published an article “New World Order: Germany’s Dangerous Idealism vis-à-vis […]
Read moreSince the conclusion of the Treaty on Good-Neighbourliness and Friendly Cooperation in 2001, the balance of power between China and […]
Read moreDo authoritarian regimes engage in active export of their political systems? Or are they primarily concerned about their geopolitical interests? […]
Read moreThis chapter examines the relationship between Russian strategic objectives and the use of communication measures in Russian policy towards Europe […]
Read moreRussians go to the ballot box on 17 to 19 September. Most commentators consider the election as a non- event […]
Read moreIf China is rising, it must be seeking world domination. If Russia is declining, it must be plotting revenge. The […]
Read moreIn this chapter, the authors examine the nature of economic relations between the Russian Federation and European Union. They describe […]
Read moreAhead of the NATO and Biden-Putin Summits, the European Leadership Network (ELN) and Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) convened […]
Read moreIn January 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a set of constitutional amendments, aiming to secure the continuity of his […]
Read moreThis paper uses text mining and sentiment analysis of Twitter posts to explore the EU’s diplomatic communication practices and to […]
Read moreThe conference elucidated Europe’s role and positioning at a time of multipolar competition – one of JOINT’s major research assumptions […]
Read moreThis analysis examines the transatlantic relationship and the potential for a strategic synergy in its three dimensions for Spain –bilateral, […]
Read moreThis chapter addresses a set of strategically important questions about the relationship between Russian strategy and the country’s energy resources. […]
Read moreIn the light of the Czech-Russian diplomatic tit-for-tat, Ondřej Ditrych, the director of the IIR, argues in his latest commentary […]
Read moreSeven years after the annexation of Crimea and amid an ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia has tried to move towards […]
Read moreFormerly comprising the nuclear relationship between Russia and the US, Russia’s redefined concept of strategic stability includes all forms of […]
Read moreIn this chapter, Elana Wilson Rowe, Ulf Sverdrup, Karsten Friis, Geir Hønneland, and Mike Sfraga caution against viewing trends of […]
Read moreBy Dustin Gilbreath, Deputy Research Director of CRRC-Georgia In this FEUTURE Voice, Dustin Gilbreath analyses the implications of the Turkey-EU relationship […]
Read moreMark Galeotti, Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid New book by Mark Galeotti cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia’s […]
Read moreAndrey Kortunov, Will Russia Return to Europe?, February 2019 Could Russia return to Europe in the foreseeable future? Not in […]
Read moreMarianne Riddervold and Maia Cross, Reactive Power EU: Russian Aggression and the Development of an EU Arctic Policy, February 2019 […]
Read moreJan Daniel, Jakub Eberle, Hybrid Warriors: Transforming Czech Security through the ‘Russian Hybrid Warfare’ Assemblage Czech Sociological Review published an […]
Read moreInvestigating the Russian economic footprint through outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and the activities of Russian multinationals has not become […]
Read moreThe great-power system has been in constant change since the end of the Cold War. The US became the hegemonic […]
Read moreAndrás Deák and Ágnes Szunomár from IWE participated in the “Connecting Eurasia: EU-Russia-China-Central Asia Strategic dialogue on connectivity” roundtable meeting in Moscow organized […]
Read moreAndrás Deák, Csaba Weiner: Hungary: Leveraging political influence. In Shentov, O., Stefanov, R. and Vladimirov, M. (Eds.) The Russian Economic […]
Read moreAnna Tiido, The Russian Language as a Soft Power Tool: The Construction of National Identity by the Kremlin, October 2018 […]
Read moreThe article analyzes Germany’s policies toward Russia from an ontological security perspective. We argue that foreign policy should be seen […]
Read moreThe March of the Immortal Regime is a performance, a massive parade that has been celebrated in major cities both inside […]
Read moreGas trade between the European Union and Russia increased considerably in both 2016 and 2017, despite the ongoing political crisis. […]
Read moreThe initiative to create an autocephalous national Orthodox Church in Ukraine, proposed by the political leadership of the country, now […]
Read moreThe appeal of left-leaning ideas is on the rise in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. Nonetheless, the main left-wing parties, particularly […]
Read moreIn August 2018, at the 8th meeting of Ukrainian, Russian and German experts in Italy (Cadenabbia), Co-director of the Foreign […]
Read moreRussia and China play dissimilar roles in global governance and define their interests in this sphere in divergent ways. While […]
Read moreIAI Commentaries September 2018 Russia’s growing international assertiveness is particularly relevant to the Baltic region. Due to its geographic position […]
Read moreOn June 14, the day that marked the kick-off for the FIFA World Cup, the Russian government announced that from […]
Read moreThis article maps Russia’s manifold geopolitical narratives along a divide between classical and critical geopolitical thinking and disentangles its geopolitical […]
Read moreEven though bilateral relations have warmed somewhat, Japan has failed to convince Russia to make concessions with regard to the […]
Read moreAll eyes were on the 2018 NATO summit, as President Trump was poised to wreak havoc during his time in […]
Read moreOn 7 May 2018, Russia entered the fourth and probably final presidency of Vladimir Putin. This was preceded by a […]
Read moreRussia’s relations with Europe and the United States are at their worst since the end of the Soviet Union. Russian […]
Read moreThe Razumkov Centre presented a new monograph “Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine” written by […]
Read moreThis report analyzes and compares the security strategies of four major international actors: the United States, China, Russia and the […]
Read moreFIIA Comment 10/2018, May 2018 Russia’s re-elected president speaks about the need to achieve a “breakthrough”. But his only realistic […]
Read moreWhat have been the keys to the victory of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections held on 18 March? Does […]
Read moreFIIA Briefing Paper 238, April 2018 Russia and China have largely managed to avoid direct competition in the post-Soviet space, […]
Read morein: L. Mälksoo & W. Benedek (Eds.), Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect (European Inter-University […]
Read moreNew ECFR report by Mark Galeotti focusing on possibility of launch of a renewed Russian campaign in the Balkans in […]
Read moreIAI Commentaries, 18:21, March 2018 Japan and the European Union share many commonalities. Both are advanced industrialized countries, are governed […]
Read moreMoscow is keen to exploit the conflict in Syria in its information war against the West. Russian messaging on Syria […]
Read moreIs the supremacy of the Big Five, inherited from the mid-20th century, on the brink of its decline? Have the […]
Read moreThe changes in the Western policy towards China have the potential to diminish the asymmetry characterizing Russian-Chinese relations so far. […]
Read moreThe “Revolution of Dignity” led to a considerable decrease in Russian economic, political and soft power influence over Ukraine. Yet […]
Read morein Elcano Blog, 13 February 2018 The nuclear arms issue is back, in its strategic rather than its tactical or battlefield […]
Read morein: IWE Working Papers, December 2017 Read it here
Read moreVoters will give Vladimir Putin the mandate to continue great power politics. This does not augur well for any deconfliction […]
Read moreChina-Russia enhanced security cooperation is a form of geopolitical signalling. Despite closer relations, the coming years will tell whether such […]
Read moreWhereas the presidential election in March 2018 hardly poses any serious challenges to Vladimir Putin, after the election the Kremlin […]
Read moreFor the current Russian government, the 100th anniversary of the Revolution is not a happy occasion. The Kremlin links the […]
Read moreSpecial issue of Contemporary Politics, vol. 24, no. 1, 2018 Contemporary global politics is characterised by multipolarity: globalisation and the […]
Read morePrague Security Studies Institute, Prague. (2017) With the beginning of the millennium, the Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary […]
Read moreFifth-generation aircraft – characterised by being stealthy, manoeuvrable, and multi-role and possessing advanced avionics and data processing capacities – are […]
Read moreThe aim of this paper is to identify the enduring principles at the basis of Russian military thought, which offers […]
Read moreDuring the independence referendum in Catalonia, Russia used the ‘combination’ (kombinaciya), an operation can integrate instruments such as cyber warfare, […]
Read moreThis autumn marks the start of an insecure election year in Russia. On 18 March 2018 Putin will most likely […]
Read moreEarlier this month, in Syria’s Idlib Governorate, 29 Russians found themselves encircled by fighters from the rebel front Tahrir al-Sham (which Moscow still […]
Read moreThe aim of this article is to analyze the main characteristic features of the security culture of the Russian Federation […]
Read moreRussia’s actions in Ukraine reminded many that states use a mixture of tools to achieve their political objectives. Analytically troublesome […]
Read morein Riga Conference Papers 2017, September 2017 The Riga Conference Papers 2017 offers a collection of articles reflecting the realities and […]
Read moreThis new report by Mark Galeotti on how Russia manages its political war in Europe was written for the European […]
Read moreAnoush Ehteshami, Ariabarzan Mohammadi, The EU and Geopolitics in the Mediterranean, in European Policy Briefs, MedReset, Policy Briefs 2, IAI, […]
Read moreVladimir Putin’s re-election campaign may not be comfortable about addressing Russia’s foreign policy situation. Skirting the issue would, however, shift […]
Read moreThis Working Paper analyses the way in which the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church use the claims related […]
Read moreTwitter as a digital platform signals to the evolvement of political influence following recent world-focus events such as Brexit and […]
Read moreEvents in Ukraine have rekindled discussions about NATO’s post-Cold War purpose and the way it relates to the EU. Through […]
Read moreThe publication “The Trajectory of Conflict: A Model of Ukrainian-Russian Relations in the Near Term” contains: the summary of proposals […]
Read moreNowadays, the Mediterranean region’s balance of power is challenged by several conflicts and actors. Russia has taken advantage of this […]
Read moreContrary to the narrative in much of politics and academia, Russia’s alienation from the West did not start in 2014 […]
Read moreThe author, Csaba Weiner, joins the latest trend of focusing on Russian attempts at developing their political but also economic […]
Read moreThis discussion paper by Benjamin Tallis and Michal Šimečka, who are both senior researchers at the Institute of International Relations, provides […]
Read moreThe three year hybrid war between Russia and Ukraine that started in February 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and […]
Read moreThe anticipated aftermath of the recent anti-corruption protests in Russia is that the Kremlin will most likely continue the country’s […]
Read moreThe pillars of social and political stability are eroding in Belarus, and the economy is deteriorating rapidly. In view of […]
Read moreThe Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review (EMGR) is an annual scholarly journal published by the Cyprus Center for European and International […]
Read moreThose in the West who argue in favour of detente, of an easing of sanctions and a rapprochement with the […]
Read moreCyber operations related to recent elections are symptomatic of the ongoing ‘information struggle’ with the West that Russia sees itself […]
Read moreAn explicit “deal” between the West and Russia on Ukraine is not possible. Europe would like to reach a more […]
Read moreThe European Commission has endorsed Gazprom’s commitments to revise its monopolistic practices in East-Central Europe, which would allow a better […]
Read moreThe new report by Mark Galeotti, published by the European Council on Foreign Relations, focuses on Russia’s criminal networks in Europe. The […]
Read moreThe anticipated aftermath of the recent anti-corruption protests in Russia is that the Kremlin will most likely continue the country’s […]
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