Publications

This inaugural issue of Cyber, Intelligence and Security focuses on the pursuit of cyberspace policies and strategies, the attempts to regulate the cyber domain, national cyber infrastructure defense, and cyber warfare. The journal’s articles specifically look at...chevron_right

This paper looks at the limitations of the 2015 Agreement for the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCISS), which established a flawed peace in the country. While exploring this topic, the text also 1) explains why violence exploded in Juba last summer, and...chevron_right

This text looks at the current scope of humanitarian crises around the world and the gap that exists between humanitarian needs and responses. To deal with the latter problem, the paper’s authors recommend that we collectively...chevron_right

This article contends there is a yin-yang dynamic at play in Northeast Asia. Yes, the region is rife with strategic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions which are being fed by power politics and mu...chevron_right

This paper examines China’s policies towards North and South Korea, which are largely shaped by Pyongyang’s nuclear strategy and China’s economic and political interests in Northeast Asia. The paper’s author specifically argues that Beijing’s primary objectives...chevron_right

This paper discusses the 2009 Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP), with a particular focus on Lithuania. The text’s author argues that BEMIP is indeed part of Brussels’ plan to create an integrated Energy Union, and that it is both a...chevron_right

This text discusses 1) the EU’s ongoing engagement in Northeast Asia, 2) South Korea’s North Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative (NAPCI), and 3) the possibility for further cooperation between the EU and Korea. As part of his analysis, the author highlights the...chevron_right

This paper looks at the EU’s ‘critical engagement’ with North Korea, which consists of 1) tendering diplomatic support for multilateral peace efforts; 2) providing economic aid to the DPRK; and 3) cooperating with other partners to counter...chevron_right

The author of this paper has no doubts - The security of the Maghreb, particularly for Europe, is not a marginal concern when compared with the Middle East. In this survey of the region, the paper tak...chevron_right

This paper examines the draft version of Russia’s energy strategy up to the year 2035, which reflects an important change in the country’s energy thinking since 2014. The text specifically looks at 1) how the shift in Moscow’s approach is tied to wider concerns about...chevron_right

As this analysis confirms, trying to maintain the above five camps’ neutrality in the Syrian Civil War has been very difficult, as has sustaining basic services for the close to two million unprotected, marginalized and victimized people who remain trapped within…chevron_right

According to this brief, the new Trump administration presents major challenges to the diplomatic and security alignments that have defined Britain’s place in the world since the 1940s. The most egregious problems, argues the text’s author, are that Trump’s erratic presentation of…chevron_right

This briefing argues that the Trump administration and its supporters need to remember that the so-called Islamic State’ backers and fighters are not all rabid fanatics. They often have complex motives for joining the fight, which is why brute force...chevron_right

This issue of Comparative Connections updates us on the trajectory of key bilateral relationships in East Asia, and between East Asian countries and the US, during the third quarter of 2016. The myriad articles 1) recount and analyze the…chevron_right

Dieser Report ist eine Sammlung von Artikeln zum Thema Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik von Präsident Trump. Einige der Themen im vorhandenen Report sind 1) Terrorismusbekämpfung; 2) Rüstungskontrolle; 3) Transatlantische Beziehungen; 4) Russland; 5) China und noch mehr.chevron_right