Strategy & Defense
Strategy, military security, and classic defense threats are still at the heart of current international relations. In this program, we will focus on military technology, trends in armaments and technology, modern strategic thinking, geopolitics, and armed conflicts.
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Billion-dollar question: how to get enough drones that we need today – and tomorrow?
Drone technology introduced multiple new challenges in regard to security, warfare as well as industry. Policy-makers, military strategists and industrialists...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
The Future of Drones: Strategic interregnum
Drones are rapidly reshaping the global security environment, altering the character of warfare, defence planning, and strategic competition. As technological...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
Drone Futures: Road to 2040. Foresight from Central Europe
Drones are reshaping global industries, security, and public services— and Central Europe is no exception. This foresight study looks ahead...
Geopolitics Global Agenda
The Arctic Mirage: Rethinking the Russia-China Cooperation
Author: Simona NikoléniováExpert Supervisor: Richard Turcsányi, Program Director at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS)Published by Adapt Institute...
Geopolitics Global Agenda
Growing Importance of the Arctic: Why Slovakia Should Pay Attention
Author: Peter LitvínExpert Supervisor: CDR Rachael Gosnell, Military Professor of Strategic Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security...
Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
The Role of Strategic Foresight in Governance
Author: Ľuboslava HankovskáExpert Supervisor: Imrich Marton, Adapt Institute Associate Partner & Founder of Facta Pro FuturaPublished by Adapt Institute as...
Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
Could an Istanbul Deal Have Brought Peace?
The experience of the post-Soviet republics with security-related agreements with Moscow is such that the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian talks had little...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategy & Defence
Usage of Drones in the War in Ukraine
Drones, or UAVs, were often considered weapons of the future. Before the two world wars in the 20th century, the...
Geopolitics
Quo Vadis, Kosovo?
As Kosovo embarks on its 16th year of independence, it faces a critical juncture characterised by a challenging journey filled...
Geopolitics Non-Military Security
Securing the North: NATO’s Response to Russian and Chinese Arctic Ambitions
Current trends in Arctic ice melt carry profound implications not only for the planet’s climate but also for the stability...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Navigating XXI Century Geopolitical Shifts: Challenges and Opportunities in the Defence Sectors of Germany and Poland
Read the Long Read via the link: NAVIGATING XXI CENTURY GEOPOLITICAL SHIFTS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DEFENCE SECTORS OF...
Global Agenda Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
NATO Public Forum 2023
On 11-12 July 2023, NATO’s Heads of State and Government will meet in Vilnius Lithuania, at the NATO Summit, to...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Andreas Umland: Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part III: The Crimean Conundrum
Executive Summary There is currently an intense debate about scenarios for ending, or at least freezing, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine....
Geopolitics Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
Will the Switch to Renewable Energy Provide Fewer Instances For States to Use It as a Tool of Geopolitical Influence
Read the Long Read via link: Will the Switch to Renewable Energy Provide Fewer Instances For States to Use It...
Strategic Thinking
Andreas Umland: Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part II: Domestic Hindrances for a Russian-Ukrainian Truce
Picture credit: designed by artist Boris Groh/Ukraine Postal Service Summary There is intense public debate over when and how to...
Geopolitics Strategic Thinking
Moscow’s Red Lines, Nuclear Threat, and Restraint
Red lines and nukes Whenever the Ukrainian armed forces achieved something vis-à-vis their Russian foe, and occasionally even without immediate...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
Non-nuclear Strategic Deterrence and pre-emptive approaches of Strategy. Poland and the Future of Deterrence by Denial. New A2/AD?
Download the Long read via link: Non-nuclear Strategic Deterrence and pre-emptive approaches of Strategy. Poland and the Future of Deterrence...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Andreas Umland: Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part I: The Constitutional Impasse
Executive Summary The already heated discussion among policymakers and policy shapers in the West on how the Russian-Ukrainian war could...
Geopolitics Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
Andreas Umland: How the West Can Help Ukraine: Three Strategies for Achieving a Ukrainian Victory and Rebirth
Executive Summary The geopolitical salience of the Russia–Ukraine War and the remoteness of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union or...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Transatlantic peace comes from within
Russia’s blatant and excessive use of force to achieve its foreign policy goals marked the crossing of the Rubicon. Russia’s...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
The NATO 2022 Strategic Concept Implications for the Baltics: Correcting the course, but still missing the point
The text discusses the most significant impacts of the NATO 2022 Madrid Summit from the perspective of expectations, ambitions and...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
NATO, the EU and the Growing Instability in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges and Risks
Ethnic and political tensions within Bosnia and Herzegovina represent potential roots for a more serious conflict in the Western Balkans....
Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
EU ́s Strategic Compass and its Implications: What is the Future of European Strategic Sovereignty?
The Strategic Compass represents a major political proposal to prevent the risk of “strategic shrinkage”. Strategic shrinkage refers to three...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Visegrad Insight – What Will Come from This Year’s NATO Summit?
Original source Visegrad Insight: The Madrid NATO summit will set NATO’s strategic direction for the next decade and beyond, while...