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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Elements of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) spent much of November 2024 in Latvia, taking part in a series of exercises known as Joint Protector 24. Leaders of the JEF countries—Denmark,...
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Whom does the Kremlin expect to see in the White House? And what does it expect from...
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The question of whether and on what conditions Russia could someday find its place among free and democratic western states has been under close scrutiny ever since the end of the Cold War. In 1992,...
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Nobody expected NATO’s heads of state and government to pull rabbits from a hat when they met in Washington this week. Big decisions on Ukraine, defence and deterrence, and spending had been taken,...
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NATO heads of state and government gathered in Washington on 9-11 July to mark the Alliance’s 75th anniversary. While a third year of full-scale war rages in Europe, they had to guard the tone of...
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