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The new Cold War: The birth of a resurgent conflict
By: Kyle R. Brady The Berlin Wall may be gone and the Cold War over, but the old and familiar patterns are quickly returning. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War and the associated collapse...
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Strife Series on Intelligence in the digital age, Part I – The Information...
By: Jessica “Zhanna” Malekos Smith MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 23, 2014. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty...
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US Cruise Missile Strike in Syria and Implications for International Law
By Toby Fenton A US guided-missile destroyer launches a Tomahawk cruise missile during NATO’s intervention in Libya, 2011. Image Credit: Wikicommons | U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist...
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Dice, Hexes & History: Can Wargaming Save Estonia?
By Camlo Kalandra Source: David A. Shlapak and Michael Johnson. Reinforcing Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank: Wargaming the Defense of the Baltics. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016. A new...
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Strife Feature – Nationalism and Lessons from Russia
By Christopher Morton In 2008 Russia invaded South Ossetia and in 2014 Russia invaded Crimea – both secessionist provinces of Georgia and Ukraine respectively. On the one hand, these interventions can...
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Strife Series | Complicated relationships – History’s Influence in...
By Neil Siviter Despite its relatively small population and size, Estonia – the northernmost Baltic state bordering Russia and Latvia – has been increasingly viewed by experts as a zone of possible...
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Strife Feature | Contemporary Russian foreign policy – Examining the Ukraine...
By William Moray The 2014 Ukrainian Revolution – or Revolution of Dignity – and the subsequent Donbass War (Donbas, in Ukrainian) severely impacted the relations Russia held not only with Ukraine but...
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Donbas Reintegration Law: What Impact on the Minsk Agreements?
By Daria Platonova The contemporary definition of Donbas refers to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine (Credit Image: Al Jazeera) The low-scale conflict in Ukraine, now in its fourth year,...
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Smoke, Mirrors, Yachts, and Dachas
By Jackson Oliver Webster The reality TV run-up to Russia’s presidential elections (Credit Image: Телеканал 360) This article is part of a two-part pre- and post-election analysis of the Russian...
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The Multi-Domain Battle Doctrine, or the Art of Gambling on Future Warfare
By Pierre Dugué Multi-Domain Battle: Evolution of Combined Arms for the 21st Century, 2025-2040 (Credits: The Dupuy Institute) In 2007, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates declared ‘We can expect that...
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Decrypting the effects of the Russian Presidential Election
By Jackson Oliver Webster Credit Image: БЕЛАРУССКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ This article is part of a two-part pre- and post-election analysis of the Russian elections and their significance for the country and...
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The West needs to wake up to Information Warfare
By Will Bisset UK investigators working on the Skripal poisoning case in Salisbury (Credit Image: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images) “No amount of propaganda can make right something that the world knows...
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Strife Series on Intelligence in the digital age, Part I – The Information...
By: Jessica “Zhanna” Malekos Smith MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 23, 2014. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty...
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The West needs to wake up to Information Warfare
By Will Bisset UK investigators working on the Skripal poisoning case in Salisbury (Credit Image: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images) “No amount of propaganda can make right something that the world knows...
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Strife Series on Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives, Part II – Deception in...
Examining the use and effects of false flags in nation state cyberattacks, and how geopolitical analysis may be add value to attribution efforts. By Amy Ertan Credit Image: sangoiri (123RF) ‘The...
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Strife Feature – Elites and activists in Donetsk before the armed conflict
By Daria Platonova Pro-Russian militia at a rally in Donbass, in May 2014 (Credit Image: Evgeniy Maloletka/ AP) The causes of war in eastern Ukraine (or between the Ukrainian government and Donetsk...
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Feature — Winning the Disinformation War Against the West
By Andrzej Kozłowski 13 May 2019 The Ministry of Defence badge on a computer chip. Britain will build a dedicated capability to counter-attack in cyberspace and, if necessary, to strike in cyberspace....
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Donbas Conflict in Ukraine
by Daria Platonova 5 June 2019 Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskiy was elected President of Ukraine in May 2019 (The National Interest) Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s[1] election to the presidency in Ukraine[2]...
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Internet Sovereignty as a Gateway to Global Norms: The Battle over Global...
by Eve Gleeson 18 July 2019 A borderless world, or not really? (Image credit: Pxhere) Introduction The Internet’s essence as “open, global, [and] borderless” has complicated attempts toward...
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Russian and British Imperial Policies towards Ukrainian and Welsh
by Daria Platonova The Ems Edict of 1876 banned the use of the Ukrainian language in print (Image credit: Mozok) In 2014, language came to the forefront of politics in Ukraine for the second time since...
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