Publications

This report examines how local conflicts undermine the mandates and effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions. To help deal with the problem, the text's authors 1) provide a framework which prioritizes the conflicts peacekeepers should...chevron_right

How is Russia shaping China’s perceptions of its own competition with the US over hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV)? After examining Chinese-language research texts on the subject, the author of this paper 1) lays out Moscow’s...chevron_right

This brief discusses the actions the UN Security Council (UNSC) might pursue to address climate-related security risks. It specifically looks at 1) the status of the global approach towards climate change risk management, as laid out by the 2015 Paris Agreement; 2) the history of...chevron_right

The eight essays in this text not only focus on the current disarmament environment, but also on the future opportunities for cooperative security and the elimination of arms. The specific entries focus on 1) the erosion of the global disarmament architecture and…chevron_right

This report provides fresh insights into five Local Administrative Councils (LACs) that are operating in opposition-held Syria. The text’s authors specifically explore these popularly mobilized, service-providing entities’ 1) evolution, practices and influence, and 2) the way…chevron_right

According to this publication, nonviolent movements are nearly twice as successful as violent ones in achieving their goals. The author also believes these numbers would go up if women had greater acc...chevron_right

In this article, Iskander Rehman surveys the existing literature on special operations forces (SOF) and mountain warfare; the role Indian SOF could play in a border war with China; and the current military state of play along the disputed Sino-Indian frontier, to include both countries’ strategies and force modernization plans.chevron_right

The 2017 edition of the CSS annual “Bulletin on Swiss Security Policy” contains chapters on the contribution of the Swiss Muslim organisations to PVE (Darius Farman and Fabien Merz), the expansion of ...chevron_right

This article discusses how the US and Russia could possibly improve their strained relationship by collaborating more closely on managing their boreal forests, which was an agricultural exchange program that first took place between the Soviet Union and America in 1955.chevron_right

In December 2016, Israel’s Knesset voted to fund the Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) multi-year Gideon Plan. So, what can we expect as a result? According to the authors of this paper, the country’s res...chevron_right

As the author of this text notes, the above strategy involves three stages – detection, prevention and de-radicalization. Although the framework may indeed be functional, the problem is that...chevron_right

Here is Stratfor’s global forecast for 2017, a year which will probably be shaped by forces that have been building up for decades. Among other things, we are likely to see 1) the Eurozone crisis enter a new and more dangerous stage; 2) a positive year for Russia, if it capitalizes on its opportunities; 3) NAFTA remaining intact, despite Donald Trump's hostility towards it; 4) the exploitation of rising nationalism in South Asia, and much more.chevron_right

The three articles in this issue of the RAD discuss 1) Russia's recently-approved 2017–19 budget, which confirms that defense spending will remain a priority for the country; 2) the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which Moscow is largely neglecting at this time; and 3) how the Putin regime views the utility of military power as an instrument of foreign policy, particularly after its interventions in Ukraine and Syria.chevron_right

This E-Note contemplates the December 2016 assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, with a particular emphasis on the event’s underlying implications for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s troubled regime. The assassination, for example, points to 1) an alarming decline in...chevron_right

This paper discusses China’s new cyber security law, which came into effect on 7 November 2016. More specifically, it focuses on 1) how Beijing dealt with cybersecurity in the past; 2) the background and rationale for the new statute, which provides...chevron_right