The Commission presented its White Paper on defence on 19 March at a press conference with the Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs...
Read more
On 4 April, ICDS is co-organising a high-level international conference in...
Read more
With the March 2022 Strategic Compass, the EU “set out a common strategic vision and concrete objectives for strengthening the EU's security and defence policy by 2030.” The Compass noted the...
Read more
Discussions on international development assistance tend to contemplate the role of colonial legacies and the power imbalances between donors and recipients. Russian humanitarian aid and development...
Read more
In December 2021, Russia passed a point of no return when it publicly revealed its intention to redraw the world into geopolitical zones of influence. It lodged its claims to control almost all...
Read more
EU enlargement usually happens in fits and starts. Currently, there is an important new dynamic in the EU’s enlargement policy. Driven by geopolitical forces, the risk is that it will soon come to...
Read more
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Azerbaijan’s recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh have triggered significant geopolitical shifts and resulted in varied manifestations of Russian influence across the...
Read more
For years, Moscow has tried to pressure the west to recognise its status as a great power and accept its vision of rearrangement of world order. To force the international community to respect its...
Read more
While the risk of damage, deliberate or accidental, to energy and communications infrastructure under the Baltic Sea cannot be entirely eliminated, naval cooperation among the democratic states that...
Read more
The Kremlin views Trump’s election victory as an opportunity that it believes should be approached with a combination of wariness and toughness. It wasted little time on plaudits. Two days after...
Read more