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.
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
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....
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...
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 Non-Military Security
Report: StratCom for Supporting NATO Multinational Battlegroup in Slovakia
The NATO Multinational Battlegroup (NATO MN BG) has been present in Slovakia since April 2022 in response to the unprecedented...