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Analysis, commentary, and policy briefs on international security, economic strategy, and geopolitics — from CISES fellows, analysts, and expert contributors

  • Russian Intelligence, Hungary, and the Restoration of EU Intelligence Integrity

  • A state’s foreign policy can only be understood by studying its National Security Strategy: Especially when it comes to the United States

  • Cracks in the Foundation: The Security Implications of Democratic Backsliding Inside NATO

  • The IRGC, the Iranian Economy, and Prospects for Regime Change

  • Who’s Watching? The Rise of Online OSINT 

  • Who’s Watching? The Rise of Online OSINT 

  • Who Will Guarantee Europe’s Security?

  • An F/A-18 Hornet jet in flight with a Finnish insignia, captured in England's open skies.

    Finland’s Impact on NATO: Why Europe Should Follow the “Finnish Model”

  • Testing the Threshold: China’s Drone Incursion into Taiwanese Airspace

  • Watching the Grey Zone from Space: Japan–Philippines Surveillance Cooperation in the South China Sea

  • Strategic Autonomy, Coordination and Politics of Contestation: Reducing Eurosceptic Backlash

  • Space Security and the Collapse of Arms Control

  • Why “Coopetition” may be a better descriptor of the Indo-Pacific’s shifting order than a “Second Cold War”

  • Contemporary Sabotage

  • Contemporary Sabotage

  • The Fall of Nicolás Maduro and the Fall of Putin’s Imperialism

  • Towards a new European China strategy: Realise opportunities. Reduce dependencies. Resist threats

  • Prospects for the Second Partition: The West Sudanese State in the Making

  • The Vanishing Line: When Consumer Products Become Strategic Weapons

  • Critical Minerals and the Green Transition: Is the EU Replacing One Dependency with Another? The Australia-EU FTA

  • How have the conflicts in the Middle East affected the efficacy of UN peacekeeping missions in Lebanon?

  • Here’s What a Weak Iran Could Mean for the World

  • Italy in the Pacific: An overview of Italian-Indonesian Relations

  • India’s Energy Week and the Geopolitics of Energy Beyond the US

  • How the Purge of Military Generals Is Reshaping the PLA and the Question of Xi Jinping’s Successor

  • Detailed view of a motherboard with visible microchips and circuits.

    TSMC and the Semiconductor Industry

  • What does the recent Italy-Africa summit in Addis Ababa reveal about EU-Africa Collaboration?

  • The Information War in the 2025–2026 Protests in Iran: Connectivity Controls, Media Capture, and Social Polarisation

  • Germany’s Missing Warship – How the F126 Became a Strategic Liability and Ways out of the Crises

  • Trump’s Tariffs over Greenland: Implications for the European Union

  • Republic of Korea and the United States Semiconductor Relations

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    Solidarity and Sovereignty: South Africa’s Palestinian Arrivals and the Politics of Displacement

  • Assessing the Strategic Value of Ukraine’s Mineral Wealth

  • Oil and Algorithms: How Venezuala’s Geological Capabilities run the AI Race

Our Research — CISES