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

  • Long-Range Deterrence and Autonomous Warfare in Turkiye’s SAHA 2026

  • Evaluating Geopolitical Threats to Climate Asymmetry

  • Defence Unicorns Need More than Investor Forums

  • Withdrawal of American Troops in Germany

  • Withdrawal of American Troops in Germany

  • Sanctions as Infrastructure: US Licensing Architecture and Venezuelan Oil Governance

  • 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


  • 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 Case for Doctrine to Match Unmanned Naval Capabilities


  • Fortress Gotland: Securing the Baltic’s ‘Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier’

  • European Re-Union? The Renewal of the UK-EU Relationship

  • The AES Paradox: Sovereignty at What Cost?

  • Can Hezbollah Destabilise Syria?

  • A Permanent Seat Won’t Fix a Fractured House

  • The Wrong War on Brazil’s Criminal Factions

  • Two Axes of Pressure: How Trump’s Tariff Escalation Splits Third-Country Economies, Not the World


  • Critical Minerals Competition: What can Europe learn from Japan and South Korea to secure a resilient minerals supply chain?


  • France’s answer to sovereign AI Command-and-Control: competition and interoperability

  • An AI Cold War: Cultural Erosion or Job Disruption in a Divided World

  • Having a Seat at the Table Requires a Stronghold in AI

  • The Northern Navies Plan: Why It is Being Pursued and Its Consequences

  • The Fragile Critical Minerals Alliance: Why the G7 May Struggle to Break China’s Supply Chain Grip

  • Rebalancing the Information Order Through Strategic Hedging

  • Containing ISKP in a Post-Interventionist Era

Our Research — CISES