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Global Outlook: Cooperative Security, Arms Control and Disarmament

Towards a Eurobomb: The Costs of Nuclear Sovereignty

By Tom Sauer  |  17 March, 2025

Instead of investing in weapons of mass destruction, making EU defence more efficient should be the priority as well as integrating Russia into a larger collective security organization.

How to Agree an Armistice in Ukraine: Lessons from Korea

By Stein Tønnesson  |  12 March, 2025

The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953 has been mentioned as a possible model for how to end the fighting in Ukraine. This makes sense. The Trump administration, however, seems to opt for a quick deal combining “ceasefires in place” with vain prospects of subsequently reaching a genuine peace agreement.

First Vietnam, Then Afghanistan: Is Ukraine Next?

By Bashir Mobasher  |  26 February, 2025

With U.S. and Russian leaders engaged in direct talks in Saudi Arabia over the future of the conflict, many are left wondering whether the Ukraine crisis could become another Afghanistan or Vietnam

Trump’s Greenland Bid is Really About Control of the Arctic and the Coming Battle with China

By Stefan Wolff  |  15 January, 2025

When Donald Trump first offered to buy Greenland in 2019, he was widely ridiculed and nothing much came of it. Fast forward six years and Trump’s renewed “bid” for the world’s largest island is back on the table.

Back to the Monroe Doctrine?

By Herbert Wulf  |  14 January, 2025

Two weeks before taking office, the future US President Donald Trump signposts to the astonished public around the world in a confusing, Trump-like press conference what we have to prepare for.

The Fall of Assad is a Cautionary Tale of Blowback

By Ramesh Thakur  |  22 December, 2024

A regime built on terror, ruled by fear and sustained by foreign proxy forces crumbled in less than a fortnight. In the end, the foundations of the House of Assad (1970–2024) rested on the shifting sands of time.

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