Moscow’s Red Lines, Nuclear Threat, and Restraint

Geopolitics Strategic Thinking

Red lines and nukes Whenever the Ukrainian armed forces achieved something vis-à-vis their Russian foe, and occasionally even without immediate...

Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part I: The Constitutional Impasse

Geopolitics Military Affairs

Executive Summary The already heated discussion among policymakers and policy shapers in the West on how the Russian-Ukrainian war could...

Andreas Umland: How the West Can Help Ukraine: Three Strategies for Achieving a Ukrainian Victory and Rebirth

Geopolitics Global Agenda Strategic Thinking

Executive Summary The geopolitical salience of the Russia–Ukraine War and the remoteness of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union or...

NATO denied the request to deploy Serbian forces in Kosovo: upcoming months can decide the future of Kosovo and Serbia

Geopolitics Military Affairs

The relationship between Serbia and Kosovo has been strained since February 2008 when Kosovo unilaterally declared independence. Throughout the years...

Report: StratCom for Supporting NATO Multinational Battlegroup in Slovakia

Military Affairs Non-Military Security

The NATO Multinational Battlegroup (NATO MN BG) has been present in Slovakia since April 2022 in response to the unprecedented...

Podcast: Communicating Defence in Slovakia and the Czech Republic – Mapping Actors and Narratives online

Non-Military Security

Adapt Insitute, in cooperation with the European Values Center for Security Policy and Gerulata Technologies, prepared a research study for...

The new US strategic bomber B-21 Raider unveiled

Military Affairs Technology and Innovations

The US Air Force (USAF) and Northrop Grumman unveiled the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber on December 2 at...

Poland missile explosion: analysis of actors’ reactions with regards to the possibility of accidental escalation between NATO and Russia

Geopolitics Military Affairs

On November 15, 2022, fragments of a (presumably two) missiles hit the territory of Poland. They struck the abandoned buildings...

Communicating Defence in Slovakia and the Czech Republic: Mapping Actors and Narratives online

Non-Military Security

We would like to present to you the newest research study for the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. This...

Webinar: Transatlantic peace comes from within

Military Affairs Strategic Thinking

Russia’s blatant and excessive use of force to achieve its foreign policy goals marked the crossing of the Rubicon. Russia’s...

Nord Stream pipelines could be damaged as a consequence of a sabotage

Geopolitics Global Agenda Military Affairs Non-Military Security Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations

Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were damaged by three explosions on Monday, September 26. Nord Stream...

The NATO 2022 Strategic Concept Implications for the Baltics: Correcting the course, but still missing the point

Military Affairs Strategic Thinking

The text discusses the most significant impacts of the NATO 2022 Madrid Summit from the perspective of expectations, ambitions and...

Tensions rise in Kosovo as the local Serbs protest. Implementation of the controversial law has been suspended

Geopolitics Non-Military Security

Tensions escalated between Serbia and Kosovo on Sunday, 31 July. Serbian demonstrators blocked roads and shot at Kosovo police officers....

Turkey has lifted its veto over Finland and Sweden’s bid to join NATO

Global Agenda Military Affairs

Turkey has agreed to lift its veto on Sweden and Finland joining NATO, thus removing a key obstacle to the...

EU ́s Strategic Compass and its Implications: What is the Future of European Strategic Sovereignty?

Global Agenda Strategic Thinking

The Strategic Compass represents a major political proposal to prevent the risk of “strategic shrinkage”. Strategic shrinkage refers to three...

Visegrad Insight – What Will Come from This Year’s NATO Summit?

Geopolitics Military Affairs

Original source Visegrad Insight: The Madrid NATO summit will set NATO’s strategic direction for the next decade and beyond, while...

Modernisation of the armies of the NATO’s Eastern Wing as a result of the war in Ukraine

Military Affairs Technology and Innovations

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has, indirectly, led to a significant strengthening of NATO’s eastern wing defences. In addition to increasing...

Why does Turkey block Sweden and Finland from joining NATO?

Geopolitics Global Agenda

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated on Saturday that Ankara continues to oppose the accession of Sweden and Finland to...

What Would Finland’s Membership Bring to NATO?

Geopolitics Military Affairs

The war in Ukraine has significantly changed the security policy of Scandinavia’s two hitherto neutral states – Sweden and especially...