Each month, Dr. Indra Ekmanis writes a monthly roundup highlighting major political, cultural, and economic events in Estonia ...

Mariia Vladymyrova (University of Copenhagen) discusses the Northern Sea Route (NSR) legal regime as an exemplary instance of ...

CEO at SBM Intelligence, the geopolitical risk advisory firm he joined at its 2013 founding. He holds an MA in Strategy and International Security from the University of Hull and an MSc in Computer ...

Dr. Kabir Adamu is a leading expert in security risk management, intelligence, and national security solutions. As the ...

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)'s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare hosted a special one-day conference dedicated ...

Northeast Syria, for long the most stable corner of the country, has been plunged into turmoil following a military campaign by the government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Following days of fighting, ...

Unsurprisingly, the National Security Strategy (NSS) has set off a storm across the Atlantic. The German chancellor called parts of the document “unacceptable,” while the president of the European ...

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has become a central pillar of the Kremlin’s political and informational warfare strategy, which shapes narratives by fusing spirituality with nationalism. Through ...

While international attention often centers on China’s latest foundation models or its constrained access to high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips, these headlines obscure the broader ...

Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States imposed high tariff rates across the region, ...

This month, we’re zeroing in on a core tension in US strategy toward China: how to strike the right balance between deterrence and reassurance. As Washington strengthens military postures, deepens ...

Contrary to the popular assessments of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, Chinese and Russian national interests primarily converge in the Asia Pacific and Arctic, not in Europe and Ukraine. For ...